Radio 1, whatever happened to it?

So wait, Radio One, a station who are openly aiming their service at a younger and younger audience doesn't appeal to a bunch of stuffy, middle aged golfers?


WELL I, FOR ONE, AM SHOCKED!

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Liverpoolphil said:
Yeah had that the other day when I was driving down to Kent :o

And I seemed to know a few to many answers in the quiz :o
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I can never get the "what year" question right!

Its worrying me now that some of the songs classed as golden oldies are songs I grew up with :(
 
I'm an absolute radio Man these days, good mix and none of this pop rubbish.
Great on a sat evening. Covers all age groups as well.
Radio 1 has never been a favourite of mine, always was a northsound 1 or original fm man anyways.
 
FairwayDodger said:
I've never liked it, only ever used to listen to Tommy Vance back in the day.
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An...TV on the Radio, The Friday Rock Show and the Friday Night Connection theme by Van Der Graaf Generator...
Those were the days.
Now I have DAB in the car, its permanently tuned to Planet Rock.
 
Nick Grimshaw is awful so I don't listen to Radio 1 in the mornings, I would listen to Scott Mills or Greg James though they are both brilliant imo. That said it's usually TalkSport (even though Adrian Durham drives me mad) and then Key103 when the ads come on.
 
If I am not listening to my Ipod, then I will listen to Absolute Radio, it plays a good eclectic mix of music, I don't mind a bit of Radio4 too, but its hard to follow the Archers if you only listen to it occasionally.
 
Another R2 fan. Plays my era of music and talks to the audience as adults. Not a big radio listener so no idea what else is really out there but R1 has had it's day (well had it some time ago). Numbers will dwindle and it will just target the younger end of the market more and more
 
A young target audience which the much older presenters and DJs clearly don't understand. They (DJs etc) spend more time talking about themselves or each other but in their effort to self promote forget the audience

In fact most radio has gone that way along with the down hill slide of the BBC who bans advertising - that's except, of course, when its their own staff self-promoting their own extra-mural functions. The amount of time Chris Evans spends advertising his Car-Fest events is huge and I bet the fact that the BBC set a huge number of staff to Glastonbury and kept plugging it on both TV and radio was worth millions to the organisers.
 
I bet the Radio 1 bosses are livid that they no longer attract the middle aged golfer demographic.. ;)

BBC, especially radio 1 has a long and proud tradition of helping new bands and I firmly believe if it wasn't for them then the UK music scene would have been a lot poorer over the years. And the alternative, commercial radio, is just awful beyond belief as the computer generated play lists are purely there to appeal to the lowest common denominator and be as bland as possible to not frighten off the advertisers.
 
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SVB said:
I think Steve Wright is the next to go. Hasn't moved on in 20 years and is predictable and becoming grating to listen to. Spoils a great line up (in my opinion anyway!!!).

S
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I'm a radio 2 listener but just can't listen to Steve Wright - he does it every time - you're listening to a really good track and he always, always butts in and talks over the music way before it finishes. Plus he thinks he can sing, and he just can't!
And uses the words, "Trending" and "Like our page" so much it used to drive me nuts!

Jeremy Vine, in my opinion, is the best Current Affairs presenter on the radio. His very able "Stand-In", Paddy O'connell is also very good, listen to him control 2 speakers at each others throats, he's brilliant at it.

Ken Bruce is always fun and love the quiz, which I'm not very good at - 15 is my best I think! :o
 
Hacker Khan said:
I bet the Radio 1 bosses are livid that they no longer attract the middle aged golfer demographic.. ;)

BBC, especially radio 1 has a long and proud tradition of helping new bands and I firmly believe if it wasn't for them then the UK music scene would have been a lot poorer over the years. And the alternative, commercial radio, is just awful beyond belief as the computer generated play lists are purely there to appeal to the lowest common denominator and be as bland as possible to not frighten off the advertisers.
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Radio 6 probably promote more up and coming bands than Radio 1. I think that Radio 1 are only interested in new bands that fit the current style of music they ply and therefore up and coming bands who ply a different style do not get a far crack of the whip from them.
 
louise_a said:
Radio 6 probably promote more up and coming bands than Radio 1. I think that Radio 1 are only interested in new bands that fit the current style of music they ply and therefore up and coming bands who ply a different style do not get a far crack of the whip from them.
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I'd agree now, I was more referring to the previous decades where it was trying, and I'd argue succeeding to be very eclectic. Not a huge fan of radio stations that are very limited on what they play as it all has to be a certain genre. As to me or does not encourage people to listen to lots of different music, just variations of the same thing.
 
Showing my age, but I can remember Steve Wright on Radio 210. He was on with Mike Read, Read and Wright. The music was much better on the show in those days.:whistle:
 
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