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pim_derks
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« Reply #15 on: 08:58:14, 13-05-2007 »

Are they perhaps trying to foster 'middle youth' as a consuming pattern like their commercial equivalents?

The answer is yes. But I think they will regret it in the (near) future.
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« Reply #16 on: 09:06:29, 13-05-2007 »

There should be different concerts and programmes for different ages and interests as well as general concerts that everybody could go to.
In big cities they have afternoon concerts where many children go. Bigger children go to 8 o'clock recitals. I think it will come out well at the end with radio too.
I am in positive mood today.
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« Reply #17 on: 14:13:18, 13-05-2007 »

Are they perhaps trying to foster 'middle youth' as a consuming pattern like their commercial equivalents?

The answer is yes. But I think they will regret it in the (near) future.

I totally agree with you Pim, but I am slightly hopeful that a handful of sufficiently intelligent people will subvert the
reductionism from within.
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« Reply #18 on: 15:16:11, 13-05-2007 »

I totally agree with you Pim, but I am slightly hopeful that a handful of sufficiently intelligent people will subvert the
reductionism from within.

I don't think they will. The only reason that BBC Radio 3 is still a rather good station is the size of the UK. There are still enough critical listeners in the UK who want a descent station. In smaller countries (like the Netherlands) interesting radio has almost disappeared. The UK, Germany and France still have interesting radio stations, but for how long...?
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« Reply #19 on: 15:42:29, 13-05-2007 »

There are still enough critical listeners in the UK who want a descent station.

I'm sure you meant decent pim, but descent does apply also to R3 these days I suppose Cheesy
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« Reply #20 on: 16:24:55, 13-05-2007 »

Pim, you may well be correct. I've been listening to wgbh boston recently-Wright seems to have got the sequence
(ie unconnected pieces and chat format) from them. I would say that wgbh do it fairly well and are involved with
promoting local bands, but the live music is...recorded. Their discussions are on-line or on a R4-ish sister station, and the whole thing runs on public subscription (as I think 3 should) plus a bit of corporate but no ads other than
occasional mentions. Some mainstream obscurities well introduced, but nothing much post-neo-classical of course.

I wonder how the battle in Congress to save Internet radio is progressing? A bill was introduced into Congress a couple of weeks ago to try and prevent Clear Channel and Sound Exchange (the copyright quango in the U.S.) from hiking up broadcast copyright fees from which the commercial giants are exempt, which would force artist-led and esoteric stations off the air. There's been a vocal campaign thus far, unfortunately only accessible through U.S.
channels thus far, but its the definitive  test case I think. Undecided Angry ??
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