Pross
Über Member
I appreciate most of us have our pet rants in various threads but thought it would be good to have a general one here with a couple of rules:
1. Only one rant per person per day
2. A person's rant is their rant, don't reply trying to rationalise or argue with the subject of their ire
3. Feel free to support the rant and mark it out of 10
My first one (a regular of mine in other threads here and previously on BR but triggered again on my drive to the station on Monday).
Radio stations increasing reliance on interactivity with their listeners. Radio 2 is a major offender for me in this category, the licence fee is paying their presenters hundreds of thousands a year to present a show and yet more and more they are relying on the listeners to call, email, text or the most recent and excrutiatingly annoying addition of voice notes. Who actually wants to listen to some boring farkwit telling us what they are having for tea, what their plans are for the weekend or (the big offender on Monday) singing songs from The Sound Of Music? It used to be bad enough when Simon Mayo would have some middle-class, middle-aged person boring us with details of their journey to the Lake District on a Friday afternoon to spend the weekend 'drinking prosecco with the girl' (cue lots of giggling in the car) before requesting something by Take That, even worse when it was a kid on the phone with parent whispering in the background - he's still doing it now on a commercial station whilst Sara Bloody Cox does the same on Radio 2. Who actually calls a radio station to request a certain song in this age of everything being available to stream whenever you want? Then you've got the Reform types phoning in to Jeremy Vine to express their ill-informed opinions on the subject of the day. Just play music and, if you must, do a few interviews but let's face it there is a good reason why the vast majority of the population aren't radio presenters and we don't really need them to go on the radio to demonstrate that reason.
1. Only one rant per person per day
2. A person's rant is their rant, don't reply trying to rationalise or argue with the subject of their ire
3. Feel free to support the rant and mark it out of 10
My first one (a regular of mine in other threads here and previously on BR but triggered again on my drive to the station on Monday).
Radio stations increasing reliance on interactivity with their listeners. Radio 2 is a major offender for me in this category, the licence fee is paying their presenters hundreds of thousands a year to present a show and yet more and more they are relying on the listeners to call, email, text or the most recent and excrutiatingly annoying addition of voice notes. Who actually wants to listen to some boring farkwit telling us what they are having for tea, what their plans are for the weekend or (the big offender on Monday) singing songs from The Sound Of Music? It used to be bad enough when Simon Mayo would have some middle-class, middle-aged person boring us with details of their journey to the Lake District on a Friday afternoon to spend the weekend 'drinking prosecco with the girl' (cue lots of giggling in the car) before requesting something by Take That, even worse when it was a kid on the phone with parent whispering in the background - he's still doing it now on a commercial station whilst Sara Bloody Cox does the same on Radio 2. Who actually calls a radio station to request a certain song in this age of everything being available to stream whenever you want? Then you've got the Reform types phoning in to Jeremy Vine to express their ill-informed opinions on the subject of the day. Just play music and, if you must, do a few interviews but let's face it there is a good reason why the vast majority of the population aren't radio presenters and we don't really need them to go on the radio to demonstrate that reason.
