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Blog: Radio GaGa?
Tuesday 1st February 2011, 3:59PM GMT.
Blog: I don’t want to come over all Daily Mail – honest, I really don’t – but for the second time in as many days I find myself asking, ‘What in the name of God are they doing at the BBC?’
First there’s the whole ‘Let’s completely screw-up the way we show Mad Men’ debacle on BBC2, and now it’s been announced that Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie’s evening show is being dropped from Radio 2 after four years.
They’re off to front an afternoon show on 6 Music. According to the in-no-way-patronising BBC announcement, Radcliffe and Maconie’s new show will become an “integral part of 6 Music’s daytime schedule and will reflect the rich relationship the station has with Manchester and music from the North”.
Well, thanks very much, Beeb. Well done for taking one of the few unarguable success stories on the airwaves, two hours of never less than entertaining radio, and getting rid of it.
I suppose the writing was on the wall when the programme went from four nights to three a while back, and now they’re going altogether, presumably to be replaced by Jo Whiley.
No disrespect to her, but surely this is a case of ‘not broken, so don’t bother trying to fix it’? Why on earth bury them in the digital graveyard?
Remind me again what I’m paying my licence fee for?
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Radcliffe and Maconie.
While they’re not Jon Peel they are the nearest thing we have to the great man.
I’m off to find Radio 6 on the dial.
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