{"id":94,"date":"2009-08-09T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T10:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/?p=94"},"modified":"2009-08-09T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T10:19:07","slug":"radio-1-with-sure-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/2009\/08\/09\/radio-1-with-sure-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio 1 &#8211; With Sure For Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah wonderful, it&#8217;s time again for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.co.uk\/broadcasting\/a168924\/tory-media-spokesman-suggests-radio-1-sale.html\">a Tory spokesperson to say that Radio 1 should be sold off by the BBC to the highest bidder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>This time it&#8217;s Ed Vaizey, shadow minister for broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>So, Mr Vaizey, let&#8217;s list your points justifying the sell off:<\/p>\n<p>1) It&#8217;s a youth station, yet the median age is those listening in their thirties<br \/>\n2) It&#8217;s unfair that the BBC gets 5 national FM frequencies and the Commercial Industry only gets one<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, to point 1: <i>really?<\/i> Where&#8217;s the evidence?  And are you, as usual, just cherrypicking from Moyles&#8217; listeners?<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, point 2:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So the only way to address the balance is to sell off R1?  You&#8217;re telling me there&#8217;s no opportunity for a reshuffle of FM frequencies in order to fit one &#8211; or two &#8211; new national commercial FM stations in?\n<li>FM is a dying medium, at least that&#8217;s the plan.  In the next 10 years, DAB(\/DAB+), which features a national Commercial multiplex, will have a much higher penetration &#8211; and I predict Internet Radio will also be commonplace in homes, cars and offices.  So what&#8217;s the long term benefit of more national commercial FM licenses anyway?<\/ul>\n<p>To be fair, I think it&#8217;s awful that commercial radio only gets 1 FM frequency.  Why?  Because it&#8217;s lead to the quasi-nationalisation of our location commercial stations.  But we&#8217;re about 20 years too late to do anything about it, Mr Vaisey.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if R1&#8217;s targetting is off the mark as much as you say, surely this can be addressed by the BBC?<\/p>\n<p>And finally, a clarification:<\/p>\n<p>You want a popular, refreshing, varied service that by-and-large provides a public service through the exposure of brand new music from a myriad of genres that commercial broadcasters couldn&#8217;t do (as niche music shows don&#8217;t bring in the cash, alas), coupled with decent (by-and-large) presenters and &#8211; oh yes &#8211; no ads, with&#8230; Heart?<\/p>\n<p>No offense Ed, but you&#8217;re a bloody idiot.<\/p>\n<p>Pat<\/p>\n<p><small>Feeling: A teeny bit hungover<br \/>\nSong in Head: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weebls-stuff.com\/wab\/paper\/\">Weebl &amp; Bob &#8211; Take On Me<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah wonderful, it&#8217;s time again for a Tory spokesperson to say that Radio 1 should be sold off by the BBC to the highest bidder. Brilliant. This time it&#8217;s Ed Vaizey, shadow minister for broadcasting. So, Mr Vaizey, let&#8217;s list your points justifying the sell off: 1) It&#8217;s a youth station, yet the median age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}