[Swprograms] Fwd: [uk-radio-listeners] EXTRACTS FROM DX LISTENING DIGEST (BBC 1975 PLANS AND MORE ON JOHN PEEL)

[Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Paul David posted this over at the UK list...thought the "deja vu"
comment about Radio 4  wanting to maximize "ears" was apropos given
our discussions here about the goals of the BBCWS and others.

The full item first appeared in DXLD.

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA


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From: Paul David <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Oct 3, 2005 7:13 PM
Subject: [uk-radio-listeners] EXTRACTS FROM DX LISTENING DIGEST (BBC
1975 PLANS AND MORE ON JOHN PEEL)
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 ** U K. BBC PRODUCERS' PLANS FOR RADIO OUTPUT REVEALED

 By Simon Baker, PA



 Proposals in the 1970s to give each BBC Radio station an "individual

 entity, with its own strong flavour" were today revealed in a set of

 documents released by the National Archives.



 A group of BBC producers made the suggestion in a memo to the

 Committee On The Future Of Broadcasting in 1975 and set out how the

 then four stations should be run.

<snip>

<snip>

 However, the memo warns Radio 4 that it will "have to stop being

 obsessed with the counting of heads and remember that the quality of

 listening is in the long run more important than the number of mere

 'hearers"'.

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