I was listening to a news report on R2 at about 5pm tonight (8th Nov) on 
a personal radio with headphones. The report was about the value of the 
US Dollar and its effect on American tourists visiting the UK. The BBC2 
news person was talking to some financial/tourism punter about this, but 
all I could focus on was the background music with an annoying 
tick-tick-tick beat.

I don't usually listen much to R2 so I don't know how long the media 
studies students have been putting sound tracks at the back of R2 news 
articles, and which Algernon decided it would be a good idea - but it 
was soooooooooo bl**dy annoying and totally unnecessary.

TIME TO COMPLAIN

..as a previous thread put it

Linker3000 wrote:
> I was listening to a news report on R2 at about 5pm tonight (8th Nov) on 
> a personal radio with headphones. The report was about the value of the 
> US Dollar and its effect on American tourists visiting the UK. The BBC2 
> news person was talking to some financial/tourism punter about this, but 
> all I could focus on was the background music with an annoying 
> tick-tick-tick beat.
> 
> I don't usually listen much to R2 so I don't know how long the media 
> studies students have been putting sound tracks at the back of R2 news 
> articles, and which Algernon decided it would be a good idea - but it 
> was soooooooooo bl**dy annoying and totally unnecessary.
> 
> TIME TO COMPLAIN
> 
> ..as a previous thread put it

Sorry - make that about 5.30pm

Linker3000 wrote:
> Linker3000 wrote:
>> I was listening to a news report on R2 at about 5pm tonight (8th Nov) 
>> on a personal radio with headphones. The report was about the value of 
>> the US Dollar and its effect on American tourists visiting the UK. The 
>> BBC2 news person was talking to some financial/tourism punter about 
>> this, but all I could focus on was the background music with an 
>> annoying tick-tick-tick beat.
>>
>> I don't usually listen much to R2 so I don't know how long the media 
>> studies students have been putting sound tracks at the back of R2 news 
>> articles, and which Algernon decided it would be a good idea - but it 
>> was soooooooooo bl**dy annoying and totally unnecessary.
>>
>> TIME TO COMPLAIN
>>
>> ..as a previous thread put it
> 
> Sorry - make that about 5.30pm

...and R2, not BBC2 (it's too late - I'm off to bed)

Thus spake Linker3000 (linker3000@google-nohyphens-mail.com) unto the assembled multitudes:
> I was listening to a news report on R2 at about 5pm tonight (8th Nov) on 
> a personal radio with headphones. The report was about the value of the 
> US Dollar and its effect on American tourists visiting the UK. The BBC2 
> news person was talking to some financial/tourism punter about this, but 
> all I could focus on was the background music with an annoying 
> tick-tick-tick beat.

> I don't usually listen much to R2 so I don't know how long the media 
> studies students have been putting sound tracks at the back of R2 news 
> articles, and which Algernon decided it would be a good idea - but it 
> was soooooooooo bl**dy annoying and totally unnecessary.

> TIME TO COMPLAIN

All together now:  "Why oh why oh why...."   :-)


-- 
                                 Andy Clews
                            University of Sussex
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Linker3000 wrote:
> I was listening to a news report on R2 at about 5pm tonight (8th Nov) on
> a personal radio with headphones. The report was about the value of the
> US Dollar and its effect on American tourists visiting the UK. The BBC2
> news person was talking to some financial/tourism punter about this, but
> all I could focus on was the background music with an annoying
> tick-tick-tick beat.
> 
> I don't usually listen much to R2 so I don't know how long the media
> studies students have been putting sound tracks at the back of R2 news
> articles, and which Algernon decided it would be a good idea - but it
> was soooooooooo bl**dy annoying and totally unnecessary.
> 
> TIME TO COMPLAIN
> 
> ..as a previous thread put it

It's a feature of Chris Evans' version of Drivetime. The background
music for the travel reports are generally louder than on other shows
and the music behind the sports features is also irritating.

On Nov 8, 8:03 pm, Linker3000 
wrote:
> I was listening to a news report on R2 at about 5pm tonight (8th Nov) on
> a personal radio with headphones. The report was about the value of the
> US Dollar and its effect on American tourists visiting the UK. The BBC2
> news person was talking to some financial/tourism punter about this, but
> all I could focus on was the background music with an annoying
> tick-tick-tick beat.
>
> I don't usually listen much to R2 so I don't know how long the media
> studies students have been putting sound tracks at the back of R2 news
> articles, and which Algernon decided it would be a good idea - but it
> was soooooooooo bl**dy annoying and totally unnecessary.
>
> TIME TO COMPLAIN
>
> ..as a previous thread put it


Didn't hear that, but was listening the other day to a documentary
about Sir Tim Berners and the founding of the Internet--I guess it
must have been on Radio 4, and there was loud, intrusive, and very
ugly background music that kept bursting in. It was like trying to
listen to a radio station in the car that is fading out as you get out
of range and other stations are intruding into the signal. Probably
the thinking is "hey we don't have a lot of young listeners, young
listeners like music, let's put music into talk shows so young people
will listen".

Thus spake jmm1951 (jmm1951@gmail.com) unto the assembled multitudes:

> Didn't hear that, but was listening the other day to a documentary
> about Sir Tim Berners

<cough> Berners-Lee <cough>


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                                 Andy Clews
                            University of Sussex
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On 9 Nov, 15:23, A.Cl...@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk wrote:
> Thus spake jmm1951 (jmm1...@gmail.com) unto the assembled multitudes:
>
> > Didn't hear that, but was listening the other day to a documentary
> > about Sir Tim Berners
>
> <cough> Berners-Lee <cough>
>

Nice one :-)

Seriously though, someone (Roger Bolton?) asked someone (in authority)
about the "background" music to such items on radio and telly, and
they said something to the effect of :- "We have to do it to attract
young people, or their attention drifts".

Explains a lot, I think.

On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:56:46 +0000, Martin Sapsed
 wrote:

>Linker3000 wrote:
>> I was listening to a news report on R2 at about 5pm tonight (8th Nov) on
>> a personal radio with headphones. The report was about the value of the
>> US Dollar and its effect on American tourists visiting the UK. The BBC2
>> news person was talking to some financial/tourism punter about this, but
>> all I could focus on was the background music with an annoying
>> tick-tick-tick beat.
>> 
>> I don't usually listen much to R2 so I don't know how long the media
>> studies students have been putting sound tracks at the back of R2 news
>> articles, and which Algernon decided it would be a good idea - but it
>> was soooooooooo bl**dy annoying and totally unnecessary.
>> 
>> TIME TO COMPLAIN
>> 
>> ..as a previous thread put it
>
>It's a feature of Chris Evans' version of Drivetime. The background
>music for the travel reports are generally louder than on other shows
>and the music behind the sports features is also irritating.

Like the presenter.

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:03:58 GMT, Scott wrote:

>On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:56:46 +0000, Martin Sapsed
> wrote:
>
>>Linker3000 wrote:
>>> I was listening to a news report on R2 at about 5pm tonight (8th Nov) on
>>> a personal radio with headphones. The report was about the value of the
>>> US Dollar and its effect on American tourists visiting the UK. The BBC2
>>> news person was talking to some financial/tourism punter about this, but
>>> all I could focus on was the background music with an annoying
>>> tick-tick-tick beat.
>>> 
>>> I don't usually listen much to R2 so I don't know how long the media
>>> studies students have been putting sound tracks at the back of R2 news
>>> articles, and which Algernon decided it would be a good idea - but it
>>> was soooooooooo bl**dy annoying and totally unnecessary.
>>> 
>>> TIME TO COMPLAIN
>>> 
>>> ..as a previous thread put it
>>
>>It's a feature of Chris Evans' version of Drivetime. The background
>>music for the travel reports are generally louder than on other shows
>>and the music behind the sports features is also irritating.
>
>Like the presenter.

Do you?  Well, I don't.

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