Aled wrote:If you were to say that age is 8 year's old and we were to play a whole half hour from 1989 that's 20 years ago (about to be 21) which would mean you would have to be 29 to appreciate that music. That's not the music policy of a young people's radio station!
The 9:30 - 10 half hour goes further back because the idea is that there'll always be iconic songs that you'll know of before you're born. One off of those is obviously fine, but not whole half hours.
Just on this as you point out when discussing the RAJARS the school/work run is your audience...The Golden Hour takes place at 9 therefore couldn't you be a little more flexible as I'd assume your audience's average age between 9 an 10 is a lot older than between 8 and 9.
Anyway I was actually going to ask about 'Bullyproof' and other BBC campaigns, which are fine and obviously done to justify the stations PSB credentials. There all sorts of rumours about what a Conservative government might want to do with the BBC.
However I did find the shoe-horning in of 'bullying' stories into the news a little unnecessary...I think only the floods knocked it off the top story, when for instance on Thursday you had a bomb in Peshwar.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8367630.stmThese surveys etc aren't really headline news and would surely be better placed at the end of the bulletin especially when there is real news around. Or is it thought the audience just doesn't have the attention span to concentrate until the end of Dom's news before being 'woken up' by the sport 'sting' (or what ever it's called)
Who decides the running order of the news is it a decree from on high?