Re: My New Year Resolution - Goodbye Television

In article <KbQGcPEoVltDFwua@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Alan <junk_reply@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> If you listen to Radio 4 you will soon find that everything is repeated
> >> many times each week and the day-time programs rival the worst that can
> >> be found on terrestrial TV.
> >
> >Are there two R4s?
> >

> No.

> Radio 4 is not the quality channel that many people believe it to be.
> Have you actually listened to some of the day-time content or checked
> the schedules to see how many times a program is repeated within the
> week?

Most of the repeats are in a different part of the day - so those at work
if they were daytime - get a chance to listen. And vice versa. Same with
weekends.

> I bet that if they cancelled that poorly written and patronising soap
> opera called the Archers (repeated 3 times each week) you would be the
> first to complain :)

Same reason. And it is repeated twice, to be pedantic.

> It does have some highlights such as the rolling news programs which are
> spoilt by the inclusion of the ' God slot sermons' and fake and
> pointless discussions stage managed so that there is always a pro and
> anti participant.

'Thought for the day' can be, err, thought provoking. Do you listen to it
carefully?

> Some of the best of the 6:30pm comedy can be quite good but remember
> some of these programs failed miserably when transferred to TV.

Why does that matter? TV almost always disappoints when this happens as
you've already formed an idea of what the characters look like. The only
one I can remember where this didn't happen was After Henry. With things
like Dead Ringers, the characters have also to look reasonably like those
they are impersonating.

> Familiarity with a program content and popularity with the Radio 4
> audience doesn't make it quality broadcasting - it just puts in the
> same category as Big Brother on Ch4.

That's ***.

> IMO, Radio 4 has the same ratio of quality to crap as most of the main
> terrestrial TV channels. This doesn't mean that it is a bad radio
> station - but it is not worth the 'quality' tag often attributed to it.

I'd stick to R1 if I were you. It doesn't need any concentration. No
repeats on there. Apart from the records, obviously.

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