No Rock And Roll Fun

CHANGING TUNES: There's a large conference on music radio taking place at the moment at the Radio Academy, and the speech by Lesley Douglas, head of programmes at Radio 2 was pretty interesting - she announced that the network is planning to move its focus away from singles and more towards giving space to album tracks (a shift in emphasis that probably makes a great deal of sense, and could help Radio 2 be best placed when digital downloads finally replace CDs as the way of delivering music - a network that already tailors itself to the strongest tracks from collections rather than just the track promoted by the industry is going to find it a lot easier to program from online catalogues than one which needs a Singles focus) and announced that an evening is going to be given over to a massive debate on the future of the British Music Industry, which should be interesting - we hope they get Tony Wilson in to present the show he was born to chair.
They're also going to have more live music - including on the Ken Bruce show, which seems a bit of an odd slot. But so long as it doesn't stop Popmaster, we don't mind.