[lookoutwales]

For Radio 2's core demographic, Mark Goodier was the voice of the charts on Radio 1 in their formative years. Seems like the perfect choice to me.

Agreed. Sad as the circumstances are, this is just the kind of show that fits him perfectly.

[Newshound47]

For Radio 2's core demographic, Mark Goodier was the voice of the charts on Radio 1 in their formative years. Seems like the perfect choice to me.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the station still gets a lot of way older listeners. The music range for Radio 2 is just too wide now to really please people with all the different options available.

[Brekkie]

I wouldn’t be surprised if the station still gets a lot of way older listeners. The music range for Radio 2 is just too wide now to really please people with all the different options available.

A wide range of music will please people though who don't want a narrow focus, as GHR has. Yes, they'll always be music you don't like but that's the same even for genre based channels with a narrow focus anyway. And just because you're older doesn't mean you don't appreciate new music anymore, and similarly just because you're younger doesn't mean you don't appreciate the classics either.

Pick of the Pops though had noteably moved forward a decade or two in the last year, now stretching into the noughties too, which we have to realise now is a retro today as the 70s were in the 90s.

[London Lite]

I really don't understand this perception that GHR is somehow musically narrow because it's a national mainstream commercial radio station?

There are rare songs played during Ken and Simon's shows during the day, Andy Crane after midnight plays rare choices from listeners and weekends are largely specialist.

I could understand if it was Heart or Smooth being discussed, but GHR is nowhere in that league of uber wallpaper radio.