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RE: BBC Local Radio - ChrisE - 08-09-2023

Ali Vowles, presents her last Saturday morning slot on Radio Bristol, after 26 years.

No mention of her work on Points West though.

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RE: BBC Local Radio - Stooky Bill - 09-09-2023

(08-09-2023, 04:24 PM)Spencer Wrote:  I’m amazed at how they’re struggling to implement the split links. This is something commercial radio has been doing for decades now. It’s not pioneering, experimental technology. How are they making such a bad job of it?

It is perfectly possible to do with the technology they have. During covid my local station had a lot of shows coming from it's neighbour and vice versa, all had split jingles and some split links such as phone numbers. For years, even before the current technology there was a national programme that had split jingles. Now there's the added complication of split news, again something other stations have done for years 

I think the issues at the moment are mostly early days teething problems with the way they're working. You've got presenters and producers who've never had to do split programmes and in some cases in studios they've never worked in before. Newsreaders having to produce two or more bulletins to exactly the same length to run simultaneously. 

A few occasions it seems it's simply been a studio not putting the correct thing to air for the following programme - i.e putting the studio directly to air rather than the feed that contains the split player,or other routing oddities. 

Some or it is limitations with the shared system they use now, there is sharing of programmes and news in combinations that were never intended when it was designed. That's the cause of the delays to the new programmes

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RE: BBC Local Radio - TJTSW - 10-09-2023

Living in Devon, heard the cornwall Jingle a few times now but as some say it could be done on purpose, however cornwall seems to be the prefernce over devon, even if they talk about devon, cornwall gets thrown in some where, its just a shambles really, and David White is too far up his whatsit and talking about his saturday night show, to read out the numbers they have Victoria Graham from Spolight read out the numbers, its a biut of a joke
still don't know whos taking over from Fitz yet, but im guessing that the day i will switch off and either listern to one of the local devon stations like Riviera FM, East Devon Radio or Radio Exe

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RE: BBC Local Radio - Andrew - 10-09-2023

When I was in the car this morning and the travel cut in, I was surprised to hear Sam Nixon (off of Sam and Mark) doing a cover shift on Radio Leeds

I wasn’t aware he’d started doing this sort of thing, although I know him and Mark had done commercial radio before

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RE: BBC Local Radio - ConorW2000 - 10-09-2023

(10-09-2023, 01:53 PM)Andrew Wrote:  When I was in the car this morning and the travel cut in, I was surprised to hear Sam Nixon (off of Sam and Mark) doing a cover shift on Radio Leeds

I wasn’t aware he’d started doing this sort of thing, although I know him and Mark had done commercial radio before

Interesting, wonder if they might both be a part of the schedules there in the future.

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RE: BBC Local Radio - Nobby - 10-09-2023

(05-09-2023, 07:05 PM)Stooky Bill Wrote:  Some teething troubles with the merged Oxford/Berkshire splits...

https://twitter.com/SamSmette/status/1698956451601895798?t=hDL5qyddFFCQbn2DE5Xl_Q&s=19 

Isn't this an example of too many staff being involved in a programme? I assume a producer triggered the split phone number audio to play but the presenter didn't know that was happened so spoke over it. This wouldn't have happened if the presenter triggered their own jingles.

Not that I am calling for them to lose more staff, just that this isn't an example of an issue caused by lossing staff.

I heard Kevin Duala singing along to a jingle on BBC Sussex last week, he stopped when it got to the station name as the show was going out on BBC Sussex and BBC Surrey.

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RE: BBC Local Radio - BBI45 - 10-09-2023

https://twitter.com/airchecks/status/1700903995240481134?s=20 

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RE: BBC Local Radio - TheJarv - 10-09-2023

(10-09-2023, 07:46 PM)BBI45 Wrote:  https://twitter.com/airchecks/status/1700903995240481134?s=20 

https://twitter.com/SophieLLittle/status/1700915180354286056?t=_WDQCLFXfRHx4x7RkOldWg&s=19 

Then it got cut!

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RE: BBC Local Radio - Steve in Pudsey - 10-09-2023

That feels like it should be a good example of the Streisand Effect in the making.

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RE: BBC Local Radio - Spencer - 11-09-2023

(10-09-2023, 03:28 PM)Nobby Wrote:  Isn't this an example of too many staff being involved in a programme? I assume a producer triggered the split phone number audio to play but the presenter didn't know that was happened so spoke over it. This wouldn't have happened if the presenter triggered their own jingles.

Not that I am calling for them to lose more staff, just that this isn't an example of an issue caused by lossing staff.

I heard Kevin Duala singing along to a jingle on BBC Sussex last week, he stopped when it got to the station name as the show was going out on BBC Sussex and BBC Surrey.

I don’t know how the split programming works, but surely it’s all self-opped by the presenter, isn’t it? BBC LR generally doesn’t have separate tech-ops for programming (other than a few exceptions such as some sport programmes).

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