On Monday, August 9th, 2010 at 05:12:38h +0000, David Kaye asked:

But wasn't it listenership falling away and listening to the pirates
that caused the BBC to add extra networks to appeal to the people they
were losing?

Are you referring to the pirates of the 1960s and the introduction
of BBC Radio 1, or to more recent events?

J G Miller wrote:

Are you referring to the pirates of the 1960s and the introduction
of BBC Radio 1, or to more recent events?

I was referring to the 1960s when the BBC was stodgy and then realized they
had to serve listeners or lose them.

On Monday, August 9th, 2010, at 19:31:17h +0000, David Kaye wrote:

I was referring to the 1960s when the BBC was stodgy and then realized
they had to serve listeners or lose them.

There was indeed a stodginess not just in the BBC but the whole establishment.

It was not the BBC who decided the services, but it had to be made for them
when the Wilson government gave the authorisation through the Postmaster
General that the BBC could start Radio 1 to compete against the pirates
and Radio Luxembourg, and subsequently local radio.

David Kaye wrote:
J G wrote:

Are you referring to the pirates of the 1960s and the introduction
of BBC Radio 1, or to more recent events?

I was referring to the 1960s when the BBC was stodgy and then realized they
had to serve listeners or lose them.


Radio Luxembourg was stealing all their listeners.

A lot of that car ''radio'' around here is that LOUD rap ''music''.Some
of those people have that EXTRA LOUD JACKED up sound in their cars, the
kind that rattles your house windows.
cuhulin