[Robert Williams]

Remember that except for Saturday sport most local stations will only have 10 mainstream programmes a week (breakfast and mid morning so will only need 2 full time presenters.

I'm not having a go at you, Stooky Bill, but you've highligted something that massively irritates me...

When the current structure of mostly 4-hour programmes all day was first introduced in 2020, the EPGs etc simply gave the programme names as e.g. "Breakfast on BBC Radio Bristol", "Evenings on BBC Radio Bristol" etc.

In the case of the 10am-2pm programme, it was listed as "Mid-Morning on..." (which I guess is why Stooky Bill is now referring to it as such).

I would like to know in which alternative dimension anything after midday contitutes still being "mid-morning". Also, surely even some/all of the first two hours would be better described as "LATE morning" as well as the latter two hours obviously being "lunchtime".

I'm thankful that the programmes are generally now listed simply by presenter name, which eliminates the utter idiocy of a programme being officially called "Mid-Morning" when at least 3 quarters of its duration sodding well isn't mid-morning. I would welcome the opportunity to slap the person(s) who came up with the "Mid-Morning on..." name for a slot that goes on until 2pm in the first place. Halfwit(s).

On Radio Sussex and Radio Surrey the 10am-2pm slot does sometimes get described on air as the 'Daytime' show, which might be an improvement on 'Mid-Morning', if less specific.

When those schedules were first set up, the 2-6pm slots were initially described as 'Drive on...' before quickly being changed to 'Afternoons on...', presumably either because someone thought it was ridiculous to have 'drivetime' starting at 2pm (which it indeed is), or else because it was at the start of the first lockdown and we weren't supposed to be driving anywhere, at least not unnecessarily.