1. 'If' there's been political pressure (by any party) for them to downsize (although the Beeb deny it, and of course they would do...wouldn't they?)...then come the election...don't cover it, head to head discussions? bin them, all night marathons? who gives a monkeys? pull the plug and have an early night and now a Party Poltical broadcast on behalf of...? record over the VT!
2. Have a close look at the TV schedule, 'quality TV'? it's sickening having the two words together in the same sentence. At best, at very best the Beeb has been sleepwalking us in a spoonfed, know your place, don't rock the boat, no-brain, dribbling, nicey nicey old age. If you need to save money...go off air at mid-day or in the afternoon (the test card has more merit than Slash in the Attic or whatever it's called). 24 hour TV? who can take 2 and half hours of it these days? Seriously when was the last time you saw something that would last in memory more than 60 minutes (or 60 seconds?), never mind decades. Dennis Potter warned us what TV would become, and **** me was he right. The Beeb in the '80's produced Boys from the Blackstuff, the Edge of Darkness and (Potter's own masterpiece) the Singing Detective. I'm lucky if I see one thing a year that I think is just good...one thing, and I like Strictly Come Dancing...so I'm hardly fussy!
back to music, sadly the Beeb aren't just letting John Peel's musical legacy die here, they are in fact ****ing on it and indirectly on us. Playlists? great idea, who wants to have variety, where's the profit in that? If you played 8 tracks to a Zoo of monkeys repeatly for 8 hours a day every day the RSPCA would have you up in court! We're Harry Palmer in the Ipcress File being tortured, but **** me at least he had some EM to listen to. Celebrity DJ's who can barely string 2 wurdz together, innit? Oh yes please. You will have noticed that BBC 3 won't be touched, can't annoy the toffs (and I like Classical Music) and the vast arid desert of Radio 1 goes on and on. A question, when was the last time you listened regularly to Radio 1? in the last 10, 20 years....ever?
DAB radio...perfect idea...and then they realised that if you broadcast in 'CD' quality then people would receive in 'CD' quality...ah and the top minds jumped into action. 'Reduce the quality' they cried, 'compress it until everything sounds like you've got the world's worst head cold...and then give the top quality to the Classical Music stations (got to look after the...etc) and the rest can go down a crunchy sliding scale right down to what? 90K? perhaps less (65K for mono). Far too easy to blame to technology, ah analog is best...no blame the ****s that made the choices for us, actually no... blame us, we let them!
happy days...what's on the Radio?
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I know there's no excuse for getting rid of 6 music et al, but for £12 a month the bbc is the best subscription you can get.
Pay £40 a month for sky + adverts for not good progs; watch ITV for constant ads and not good progs and ditto the rest of the 900 bildgewater channels and you soon appreciate how good the bbc is.
Don't agree with paying people lots of money to push a pen around still, as well as paying people a fortune to read an autocue.
ps, just downloaded the london eye concert. god, i wish i could of gone. will break the bank for albert.
Its only the hairs on a gooseberry that stops it from being a grape...a penguin is just a posh bourbon.
