tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post7826617580514753123..comments2024-03-28T08:08:05.102+00:00Comments on No Rock And Roll Fun: Radio 1 launches cull that Owen Paterson might think a bit muchSimon Hayes Budgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-63970119117872024142014-06-08T10:45:13.880+00:002014-06-08T10:45:13.880+00:00Simon: Introducing has all the hallmarks of one of...Simon: Introducing has all the hallmarks of one of those pan-BBC projects which end up hung out to dry the moment the executive who thought of them moves on.<br /><br />Agree about Annie Nightingale - she's inherited the Peel position of 'lauded when it's useful, treated terribly when nobody's looking'<br /><br />Robin: That's partly true, but also probably in part down to the axed presenters being (mostly) specialists - important to their audience, but without the same name recognition/broad supportSimon Hayes Budgenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-28087886520421215822014-06-07T19:55:08.087+00:002014-06-07T19:55:08.087+00:00Maybe, but she was in an even more graveyard shift...Maybe, but she was in an even more graveyard shift for years beforehand. iPlayer kind of transcends all that now I think.<br /><br />Speculation: the lack of broadsheet thinkpieces about this (certainly compared to when 6Music was almost chopped) has to do with the fact that the presenters being dropped aren't part of the new establishment in the way they might have been in the past.Robin Carmodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05825645880870474801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-12920388459899864152014-06-07T11:22:50.091+00:002014-06-07T11:22:50.091+00:00It's interesting that the Rock Show is getting...It's interesting that the Rock Show is getting a Sunday after-the-charts slot (thus depositing the station's only comedy show into an hour on a Tuesday) but the Punk Show is being dropped entirely, and the Introducing slot is being taken off Sunday nights and deposited after midnight in the week in a regionalised form, kicking the two specialist Introducing presenters down the road as they do so. Wasn't Introducing supposed to be one of Radio 1's strong points?<br /><br />Also Annie Nightingale has ended up at 1am on Wednesday mornings, which isn't quite the undignified demotion of Bob Harris at 3am but is still no way to treat that sort of asset.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05834265575179460764noreply@blogger.com