Simon Mayo Show

[Beebo]

Simon Mayo is still doing the weekly Kermode-Mayo film show on BBC Radio5, been running for several years. (and it's very good )

Yeah, I listen via podcast.
but his main gig is a weekday show on Scala Radio with the Bauer Group.
I doubt he is a BBC employee anymore. Just a mouth for hire.

 

[Paulus]

I have got fed with R2. Since the changes they are now very 1980's obsessed. With the exception of a few programs in the evening and at the weekends the presenters seem to think that music started started in 1980. It is now rare to hear music from the 50's, 60,s and 70's during the normal weekday programming. It has gone from a middle of the road, easy listening station to a presenters fest from their younger wilder days of celebrity notoriety.

 

[Archie_tect]

What's the name of Simon Mayo's classical music radio commercial station? Isn't he one of the founding director shareholders? [Edit: can't find any references to who owns the station but have found out it's Scala Radio- owned by the Bauer Radio Group, but you have to accept cookies to get into the Bauer website.]

 

[annedonnelly]

I have got fed with R2. Since the changes they are now very 1980's obsessed. With the exception of a few programs in the evening and at the weekends the presenters seem to think that music started started in 1980. It is now rare to hear music from the 50's, 60,s and 70's during the normal weekday programming. It has gone from a middle of the road, easy listening station to a presenters fest from their younger wilder days of celebrity notoriety.

Me too - just about the only thing I listen to now is Ken Bruce. I used to enjoy Sounds of the Sixties but Tony Blackburn's dad jokes irritate the hell out of me. Not quite as much as Simon Mayo did mind you.

Someone on here mentioned Solid Gold Gem online station & I've been listening to that a lot.

 

[Beebo]

I have got fed with R2. Since the changes they are now very 1980's obsessed. With the exception of a few programs in the evening and at the weekends the presenters seem to think that music started started in 1980. It is now rare to hear music from the 50's, 60,s and 70's during the normal weekday programming. It has gone from a middle of the road, easy listening station to a presenters fest from their younger wilder days of celebrity notoriety.

Their stated target audience is +35, so that means the music will be 80s - 90s focused.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Strange thing musical tastes, target audience vs age.

Mostly stations assume that the age group they are aiming at are locked in a period of history that is relevant to their younger years.

Mind you, listening to some of the music our similar aged friends listen to non-stop they may well be right.

We do 'go back' occasionally (Spotify Premium service) but tbh we sometimes wonder what we heard in the 'tracks of our years' - poor recordings, compressed sound-stages and music that has simply become dull through familiarisation.

 

[Oldhippy]

Planet Rock, Radio 4 Extra and Ken Bruce and Blues show R2.

 

[matticus]

It's Nostalgia FM - Music from The Good Old Days!

I am guilty of liking more stuff from my teenage years than other periods, but I love a lot of artists who recorded before that; some were referred to me by friends and/or big sis, but most are stuff I heard on the radio. It's a dreadful idea that radio stations either just play:
- current hits ("Top40" in the old days ), or
- hits from <selected decade for target demographic>

Sadly I do know of stations exactly like this

 

[Yellow Fang]

Simon Mayo used to be great when he was on Radio 5 Live during the 2000's. He used to invite all these luminaries from different fields and he never seemed to ask a stupid question. I was just getting into it when the programme finished. His film review programme with Mark Kermode is really good too. He may not have had much chemistry with Jo Whiley, but he gets on like a house on fire with Mark Kermode.

 

[Beebo]

Thread resurrection!
It’s been announced that the Kermode and Mayo film review will end in a couple of weeks. 😢

 

[GuyBoden]

Thread resurrection!
It’s been announced that the Kermode and Mayo film review will end in a couple of weeks. 😢

I think that they will be moving stations, maybe Greatest Hits Radio.

‘We’ll be back … stay tuned’ Kermode Tweet

 

[Cycleops]

Kermode is highly revered in Private Eye.

 

[Mike_P]

Can't see it on GHR, it would too much interrupt playing the same handful of tracks over and over again. Bauer boring radio.