BBC Jazz - WTF?
Sep. 6th, 2008 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhythmaningJazz Line-Up is one of four regular jazz shows on Radio 3; it, like Jazz Record Requests (where you can request jazz records - simple, really), is on Saturday afternoons; the other two shows are for insomniacs only - Jazz Library is 10.30pm on Fridays, and it is followed at 11.30pm by Jazz on 3.
(The BBC clearly needs to make sure that anyone browsing the listings knows they have come across a jazz programme: I can't imagine what the Radio 3 schedule would look like if they signposted all their classical music programming so clearly).
Hosting the current show - on now - Julian Joseph has said that they are moving to a new time. 11.30pm on Monday nights.
So one of the few chances to listen to a jazz broadcast at a reasonable hour - rather than either recording it or relying on the iPlayer (both of which I frequently do) - has been thrown out.
Frankly, this is completely fucking useless.
The BBC continues to drive listeners to the internet - and if I have to go to iPlayer to hear jazz on the radio, I might as well go to radio stations in San Francisco, or New York, or Sydney.
For the first time in ages, I feel angry about having to give the BBC my licence fee.
ETA: at the end of JRR, they explained that Jazz Library would be swapping with Jazz Line Up, taking the Saturday afternoon slot. This might actually be an improvement for me. I'll wait and see!
(The BBC clearly needs to make sure that anyone browsing the listings knows they have come across a jazz programme: I can't imagine what the Radio 3 schedule would look like if they signposted all their classical music programming so clearly).
Hosting the current show - on now - Julian Joseph has said that they are moving to a new time. 11.30pm on Monday nights.
So one of the few chances to listen to a jazz broadcast at a reasonable hour - rather than either recording it or relying on the iPlayer (both of which I frequently do) - has been thrown out.
Frankly, this is completely fucking useless.
The BBC continues to drive listeners to the internet - and if I have to go to iPlayer to hear jazz on the radio, I might as well go to radio stations in San Francisco, or New York, or Sydney.
For the first time in ages, I feel angry about having to give the BBC my licence fee.
ETA: at the end of JRR, they explained that Jazz Library would be swapping with Jazz Line Up, taking the Saturday afternoon slot. This might actually be an improvement for me. I'll wait and see!