[RobinBlamires]

Another revealing take from The Guardian, http://t.co/XsguOb1z The last paragraph is a great comparison. Reminds me of The Monkees refusing to record the song “Sugar Sugar”.

[LenGroat]

… and now at 8.30 this morning BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ show went from a topic on Julian Assange to Tony Blackburn talking about the merits of sung radio jingles!

[NickySMember]

… and now at 8.30 this morning BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ show went from a topic on Julian Assange to Tony Blackburn talking about the merits of sung radio jingles!

And if you missed it you can hear it here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9744000/9744918.stm

[Barras]

Thanks for the link Nicky, absolutely fascinating and well said Tony Blackburn, I agree with everything “our leader” said about sung-jingles and these quotes from Tony highlights it all for me…

“I really think they`re making a slight mistake here….I think the singing jingles are just fantastic, they just give that fresh sound, you get a message across, it`s called branding…I love them…it`s the reason why I jumped ship from Radio Caroline to Radio London, I thought the jingles were absolute gems… The Americans are genius at doing them”

Tony also mentioned Radio 2…

“Radio 2 has just had a brand new package done and they`re fabulous and they were done in this country”

BTW if there are any Jinglemadders who can`t hear this audio (in other countries etc…) let me know here and I`ll put the audio on Soundcloud to download.

[RobinBlamires]

Radio Today has done just that; http://soundcloud.com/radiotoday/bbc-radio-4-talking-about

[LenGroat]

Wonderful Tony Blackburn quote….

“The very best ones… started in America, and they were the real GEMS” !

[Rik Scott]

Shame they didn’t use the John Humphreys version of the Mark Goodier jingle…

[Antz]

Has anyone found out who won the R1 Breakfast Show imaging bidding?

[GrahamCollins]

Does anyone really care ?

[muffy]

Opening theme /jingle sounded like it was from Chris Moyles unwanted jingles bin .. far too slow ..And that girls voice on the jingles ” to much of a smile”…. which I think they will be a turn off ..

[LenGroat]

Sadly the ‘theme’ sounds like a tv news theme from News 24 or Al Jazeera (good but still a news theme) ~ the uninspiring female voice over sounds like it might be his sister.

More importantly he has a rather too ordinary voice for breakfast radio + poor diction: ‘noo’ rather than ‘new’ etc etc… but I guess the ‘yoofs’ will like it?

[UKJinglesMember]

What an awful show…well I listened to the first 10 minutes and the last 10 minutes )
To anyone who know’s…when are the first audience figure’s released for this “Hot, Trendy New Breakfash Show” ? (no that wasn’t a Typo!)
I predict the rating’s falling faster than a Whore’s Knickers! )

[muffy]

I dont know if the BBC still run Radio Grafton in the training department .. but that show should be given to all would be BBC broadcasters , with a note …”NEVER present a show as bad on air at the BBC” .. and to have about five of the station presenters pulling the show to bits at 9.50am .. He said the management didnt rate the show ……………Did he play many station jingles

[GrahamCollins]

Pete, I had to have a listen on iPlayer after your summary and yes the show is truly dreadful in my opinion too. Suddenly the station sounds smaller and less professional. Grimshaw sounds dull, dreary and annoyingly camp in a way that Scott Mills and Kevin Greening were not.

The theme gave me the impression that something important and significant should be happening but nothing ever did. The schoolgirl voiced double-tracked liners are straight from BBC Radio Bedroom.

The BBC has given the commercial networks a free ride with this own goal.

[muffy]

Its wrong in all areas .. rather than the advert for a bid for none singing jingles .. it should have been a bid from a production company to provide a Flag ship Young breakfast format for Radio 1 .. to include an image package .. and there are many production houses with their own tested ideas and producers who would give it 100% on day one ……….. and if it goes wrong on day one The BBC trust lean on the production company

[martinlesterMember]

Having got round to listening to 25 Mins of the New breakfast show last week ,

I am sorry can’t say I agree with Robin’s “Personally I think it’s a way forward “

To me this was the most depressing Radio Show I have heard in year’s

Grim by Name grim by nature

The Jingles if you want to call them that are more suited to a serious New Presentation and the whole premise of now with more music is more suited for a late night programming , It’s the morning and people want a “Fun” radio experience and good Sung Jingles should be part of this experience

I Feel like I have just wasted 25 minutes of my life

[martinlesterMember]

Above Should read “News Presentation”

not New presentation

[tyty21]

even though i don’t listen to r1, i’m glad i’m not now, i can agree with pete here, ratings are gonna drop like dead flies!

[muffy]

Nick is using a sort of generic shouts or vocal drops .. but dont know who made them .. I think If Rosko would have used them on his 70’s and 80’s shows they would have fitted in .. but they sound out of place on this breakfast show …

[LenGroat]

Does anyone really care ?

To quote Chalks, it would seem not. The company* who made this has (belatedly) added a video of the session to You Tube, and so far just 65 hits in a day..

It does sound like a News theme ( or a David Attenborough wildlife show?) and so
WHY did the BBC (once again) waste licence payer’s money when it was not necessary?

There are 1000s of Library tracks that sound just like this.

* The company?

………… Wise Buddah

[UKJinglesMember]

Good to see my prediction from over 3 months ago was correct…./
So it looks like Radio Two has gained most of the Moyles Listeners?
Excellent News!
Who will be the “next” Saviour of Radio One?

[LenGroat]

“Good to see my prediction from over 3 months ago was correct..”

Yes, but a sad day today…. as Ofcom say Magic can CUT local breakfast and news – that’s ‘goodbye’ to 7 local breakfast!!

‘ILR’ is self-destructing any vestige of the qualities that gave it 25% to 50% reach locally..

The RELEVANCE? Radio 1 and 2 only do so well because of endless (public ) funding, and ILR is NO competitor with its mainly ‘under 29 year old ‘ focus, endless (bribing) competitions, and mainly um-memorable, poorly sung jingles…

Happy Weekend !

[muffy]

Radio in the uk is dead …Lets hope Ofcom dont get involved in internet radio ..that will be THE END…. to quality jingles

[UKJinglesMember]

Chris Moyles last Breakfast Show on September 14th should be worth Listening/Recording!
When the last ratings of the year come out can someone bump this thread and let us know how much the ratings drop in the last quarter of the year!

See Grimeshaw has lost another million……
So I wonder if someone’s head will roll now and is it due to the lack of Jingles or just the poofy presenter
Time to bring back Mr Moyles!

[mbMember]

The show was never going to keep all the Moyles listeners and the aim is to focus on a specific demograpic so the RAJAR are not the only measure of the success of the show in terms of remit.

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