I was just on the radio

[The Reverend]

I got a VM on my phone while I was commuting in. They wanted me to talk about a big passion in my life, cars.

So this morning I was phoned by a producer and asked to talk about why people love cars and things like that.

Only a minute or two but was quite fun.

Everyone can go back to what they were doing.



The Reverend

 

[Jon]

Nice kne

I once had to talk to local radio in Norfolk about online safety for kids... that was a lot less glamorous!

 

[homie]

I won a T-shirt once from X-FM, if that counts.

 

[Jon]

On a side note I tell ya what disappoints me.

When I grew up in the 90s local radio was EVERYWHERE. I mean true local radio so no networked programs except maybe the Pepsi Chart top 40 on a Sunday. Norfolk, for example, was absolutely flooded with the things and they used to have ground crews that would show up at the opening of a new Tesco store and all that sort of jazz.

Now the only local radio you get is your BBC station. Outside of that its Housewives favourite HeartFM with its 4 hours of local programming a day. I mean it's obvious that the bottom has fallen out of the local ad market and that's why everything is networked now but I think its a real shame as if you wanted to get into radio there are only so many places you can ply your trade these days and 80% of them are so formulaic that they end up making the play Black Eyed Peas 70 times a show and talk about <random thing> they loved 'Back in the day'

 

[The Reverend]

A long time ago I used to work driving the promo vehicles for the local radio. Turn up at a location, go live back to the studio for a bit, hand out fliers and car stickers and then go home.

There isn't the money in advertising there used to be - this has lead to more syndication. It has also stopped some of the more 'liberal' interpretations of quiz rules that certainly weren't all won by friends and families.

There are two radio slots people listen to.

School/work commute
Drive Home

Everything else has few listeners. Thats why now you have 'celebs' in these slots. They pull people in who love the celeb. The celebs know nothing about radio - most of them couldn't run a studio if they tried. The perhaps know how to click a mouse on a screen.

But the stations don't care. The advertising costs the cost of Ronan Bunting and his mild mannered, vanilla, and middle of the road chat. They might even given them a 'comedy sidekick' and then the 'producer steve'.

The Comedy sidekick is paid to laugh at the host
The producer does EVERYTHING in the studio.

I gave someone a couple of minutes of free airtime - I'm happy to do my bit.

 

[Jon]

A long time ago I used to work driving the promo vehicles for the local radio. Turn up at a location, go live back to the studio for a bit, hand out fliers and car stickers and then go home.

There isn't the money in advertising there used to be - this has lead to more syndication. It has also stopped some of the more 'liberal' interpretations of quiz rules that certainly weren't all won by friends and families.

There are two radio slots people listen to.

School/work commute
Drive Home

Everything else has few listeners. Thats why now you have 'celebs' in these slots. They pull people in who love the celeb. The celebs know nothing about radio - most of them couldn't run a studio if they tried. The perhaps know how to click a mouse on a screen.

But the stations don't care. The advertising costs the cost of Ronan Bunting and his mild mannered, vanilla, and middle of the road chat. They might even given them a 'comedy sidekick' and then the 'producer steve'.

The Comedy sidekick is paid to laugh at the host
The producer does EVERYTHING in the studio.

I gave someone a couple of minutes of free airtime - I'm happy to do my bit.

Aye I remember when I came to Uni in Leeds I knew loads of girls who were recruited to go round in the Galaxy105 cars and turn up and do the rar rar rar stuff. Then Galaxy became Capital Yorkshire and now it's pretty much networked for 90% of the day.

I agree that most people listen at breakfast and drivetime because now I work at home when I try to listen to local radio during the day IT IS INANE! It doesn't matter which station I listen to it's all the same drivel with the same 'time tunnel at 2pm' type crap.

Radio Broadland was a big station in Norfolk growing up and when that came on the scene in the late 80s and early 90s it had local radios through the night and specialist music on say friday or saturday night with house/club music. Now people can listen to whatever they want using spotify so they don't need to wait for those shows to be on! Same goes for Music channels on TV! They are all awful as well yet I have great memories of BoxTV and MTV when It used to play music all the time and then maybe show the Tom Green show or whatever at 10pm but that was it.

The Internet has changed everything, heck I can use TuneIn radio app on my phone or Sonos and listen to any station around the world so I don't need to listen to Davey Dave and his wacky slogans

Family Guy: Dingo and the Baby

Clips from Stewie and Brian's radio show, Dingo and the Baby from the Family Guy episode, Mother Tucker (season 5 episode 2).

www.youtube.com

 

[James Gill]

Sounds like a fun experience, nice one.

 

[The Reverend]

Aye I remember when I came to Uni in Leeds I knew loads of girls who were recruited to go round in the Galaxy105 cars and turn up and do the rar rar rar stuff. Then Galaxy became Capital Yorkshire and now it's pretty much networked for 90% of the day.

I agree that most people listen at breakfast and drivetime because now I work at home when I try to listen to local radio during the day IT IS INANE! It doesn't matter which station I listen to it's all the same drivel with the same 'time tunnel at 2pm' type crap.

Radio Broadland was a big station in Norfolk growing up and when that came on the scene in the late 80s and early 90s it had local radios through the night and specialist music on say friday or saturday night with house/club music. Now people can listen to whatever they want using spotify so they don't need to wait for those shows to be on! Same goes for Music channels on TV! They are all awful as well yet I have great memories of BoxTV and MTV when It used to play music all the time and then maybe show the Tom Green show or whatever at 10pm but that was it.

The Internet has changed everything, heck I can use TuneIn radio app on my phone or Sonos and listen to any station around the world so I don't need to listen to Davey Dave and his wacky slogans

Family Guy: Dingo and the Baby

Clips from Stewie and Brian's radio show, Dingo and the Baby from the Family Guy episode, Mother Tucker (season 5 episode 2).

www.youtube.com

We did a BBQ at the side of the road next to a traffic jam (for breakfast - bacon and sausage rolls)
We did a British Gas promotion in a shopping centre
We gave away Playstations/xboxes/TV/DVD/holidays/££££
We turned up at fetes, opening of shops and at schools.

It was fun, but an early start (arrive at 5.30 to wash the cars for a 6am on the road), and very casual hours. They stopped giving me hours as I wasn't young, blond and female enough for them!

 

[Jon]

 

[homie]

London still has a few local radios. Capital being the biggest.

I mainly listen to radio 2 now.
Depressing when they do an oldies slot and play music from the 80s and 90s in it. Makes me feel ancient.

 

[The Reverend]

London still has a few local radios. Capital being the biggest.

I mainly listen to radio 2 now.
Depressing when they do an oldies slot and play music from the 80s and 90s in it. Makes me feel ancient.

This morning my radio 4 signal was knocked out by a local pirate Dancehall station.

I can't think of an any more inappropriate signal frequency take over!

Margret. Please put on Radio 4 so I can listen to 'Thought for the Day'
SHAKE DAT TING U NO U WANNA
The Bishop of Durham is a little too progressive for my liking. Please turn it off.

 

[Jon]

London still has a few local radios. Capital being the biggest.

I mainly listen to radio 2 now.
Depressing when they do an oldies slot and play music from the 80s and 90s in it. Makes me feel ancient.

See I've learned to accept that which is why I listen to DAB stations like Kisstory or Absolute 90s lol

 

[Jon]

Well that’s that then

 

[The Reverend]

Well that’s that then

I don't think its an actual loss.

The 'requirement' to listen to music chosen by other people has gone. Even in the car now, I tend to listen to MY music from MY phone rather than broadcast radio.

Why would I want to hear someone's opinion on something?
Why would I want to hear music I don't like?
Why would I want to hear adverts?
Why would I want to hear people phone in?
Why would I want to hear thinly-veiled adverts hidden as competitions?

I don't.
People don't.
As such, the advertisers know that radio isn't worth the investment.

On the plus side, it shows the 'value' of the BBC Stations. May they long remain advert free.

 

[katykicker]

I don't think its an actual loss.

The 'requirement' to listen to music chosen by other people has gone. Even in the car now, I tend to listen to MY music from MY phone rather than broadcast radio.

Why would I want to hear someone's opinion on something?
Why would I want to hear music I don't like?
Why would I want to hear adverts?
Why would I want to hear people phone in?
Why would I want to hear thinly-veiled adverts hidden as competitions?

I don't.
People don't.
As such, the advertisers know that radio isn't worth the investment.

On the plus side, it shows the 'value' of the BBC Stations. May they long remain advert free.

I was just thinking this earlier when Tom put the radio on... I'd rather listen to a spotify playlist on shuffle.

 

[Jon]

I don't think its an actual loss.

The 'requirement' to listen to music chosen by other people has gone. Even in the car now, I tend to listen to MY music from MY phone rather than broadcast radio.

Why would I want to hear someone's opinion on something?
Why would I want to hear music I don't like?
Why would I want to hear adverts?
Why would I want to hear people phone in?
Why would I want to hear thinly-veiled adverts hidden as competitions?

I don't.
People don't.
As such, the advertisers know that radio isn't worth the investment.

On the plus side, it shows the 'value' of the BBC Stations. May they long remain advert free.

Yeah those local gardeners need somewhere to dish out their advice to the general public.. Or maybe it's just BBC Radio Norfolk who have an endless stream of gardening programs it seems lol

 

[The Reverend]

And I was on the radio again last night..well a joke I wrote was.

This time I was paid for it.

 

[Kimilsung]

Aye I remember when I came to Uni in Leeds I knew loads of girls who were recruited to go round in the Galaxy105 cars and turn up and do the rar rar rar stuff. Then Galaxy became Capital Yorkshire and now it's pretty much networked for 90% of the day.

I agree that most people listen at breakfast and drivetime because now I work at home when I try to listen to local radio during the day IT IS INANE! It doesn't matter which station I listen to it's all the same drivel with the same 'time tunnel at 2pm' type crap.

Radio Broadland was a big station in Norfolk growing up and when that came on the scene in the late 80s and early 90s it had local radios through the night and specialist music on say friday or saturday night with house/club music. Now people can listen to whatever they want using spotify so they don't need to wait for those shows to be on! Same goes for Music channels on TV! They are all awful as well yet I have great memories of BoxTV and MTV when It used to play music all the time and then maybe show the Tom Green show or whatever at 10pm but that was it.

The Internet has changed everything, heck I can use TuneIn radio app on my phone or Sonos and listen to any station around the world so I don't need to listen to Davey Dave and his wacky slogans

Family Guy: Dingo and the Baby

Clips from Stewie and Brian's radio show, Dingo and the Baby from the Family Guy episode, Mother Tucker (season 5 episode 2).

www.youtube.com

Channel U was the best.