BBC radio 7 - Cbeebies radio in the morning - when will they make it stop!!!

[treacletart]

I'm a huge bbc7 fan - and I used to adore waking up to classic comedy, a great play or even an interesting kids' story, so much nicer than the doom and gloom of radio4. But this Cbeebies stuff oh my good God! I like sleeping with the radio on at night and now I wake to the dulcit tones of Jelly, or some bizarre kids' disco, or a Tikkabilla song all peppered with "comedy" sound effects of horns , springs and crashes. And all this from 5am! what were they thinking?!Now I've got cbeebies aged kids who are left stony faced b this nonsense - I don't know any children who'd be remotely interested in listening to this in the morning although I do know a few older ones who could get in to the audio book style stories they used to run. I can't find any other threads here mentioning cbeebies radio - is there anyone actually listening to it? I'm really hoping they'll do some audience research soon and revert back to the previous format

[Gamut]

Oh God this annoys me too. I love Radio 7 but am routinely traumatised by turning it on during a cbeebies period. It is such a bolt-on, it seems sorandom and thoughtless, like someone said 'are we doing enough radio for kids?' and got the reply 'dunno, we could whack a few repeats onto a digital channel somewhere I suppose.'

Agree that audio books is the thing for children's radio. The only radio that grabbed my boys was the readings of H Potter and Lord f the Rings.

[Vamonos]

Absolutely agree with everything below!!!

I keep being woken up by the frigging 'Granny Murray' song hollering in my ear, or somesuch nonsense - not a good start to the day.

DD is a CBeebies addict, but she wouldn't bother listening to it on the radio, and she doesn't have a radio in her room, I DO!!!

AND it's supposed to be talk radio - I put BBC7 on to get AWAY from inane music. (On which subject, I wish they'd also do away with that endless series of Garrison whatever his name is on Saturday nights).

[Gamut]

Agree about Garrison, too! Saturday the only night when you can't get something listenable at 11pm.

[fishie]

there was a feedback prog about this recently, they have got to do x% of children's programming and even fewer were listening in teh afternoons. so we is stuck with it.

[treacletart]

seems we're not alone..
bbc message board

If they have to broadcast a percentage of kids programming, why can't they stick to the kids' stuff that wouldn't be offensive to adult listeners. I actually used to really enjoy loads of the audio books - Harry Hill reading the Moomins - Alan Bennett reading Alice - Are they really obliged to play s club 7?

What happened to www.funkidslive.com? Don't think I can get it on my dab anymore - maybe nobody listened to that either...

[Gamut]

Alan Bennett reading Alice is lovely. You are absolutely right that audiobook readings would be a better way to fill in the kids quota. Children enjoy radio much more that way, and it is in keeping with the R7 brief. I can't think of anything lazier than just pulling a TV show onto the radio to meet a quota.

[nettie]

Agree with you completely hate cbeebies in a morning, used to love waking up to the comedy stuff, we've stopped listening to 7 in a morning and moved over to local radio (which is shit, but better than blooming cbeebies)

Love Garrison Kellor[sp]didn't like it at first but has really grown on me, still fall asleep when its on though.

[Spidermama]

If I were a BBC Radio producer in charge of sheduling programme, and I a saw a thread title on one of the coutries biggest parenting websites which read, "BBC Radio 7 - CBeebies radion in the morning - when will they make it stop!!!" I would think the time had come.

[nettie]

Do we have a resident BBC radio producer in charge of scheduling on mumsnet by any chance that coul be poionted in this direction or could we get one in for a chat. The whole of radio 7's schedule seems to have gone a bit off recently. I don't listen to it as much as I used to, I've gone back to radio 5 in a daytime but that might have something to do with them grilling lots of mps about expenses

[Spidermama]

I was heading towards being a BBC Radio producer but then I got pregnant. Four times. So now I mop up freelance bulletin shifts and do lots of cooking and laundry in the meantime.

I have radio 5 on for Victoria Derbishire but I find sony award winning Simon Mayo extremely boring. I mean, Twitter's OK, but you're not supposed to talk about it on the radio FGS!

[treacletart]

Of ffs!.. 7.00am on a Sunday morning - "come on kids! get up it PARTY time!!!!"
What are they thinking? If they have no kids of their own, have they never spoken to any, or any parents even?

[JeffVadar]

I used to listen to BBC 7 a lot, especially during periods of sleeplessness, but since this change I hardly listen at all!

I hate it ...

[treacletart]

Hurrah! Hurrah! DH has just told me when they rebrand as radio4xtra they'll be ditching the kids stuff - it seems they've finally realised the average listener's age is 48

[JeffVadar]

That is very good news! I always thought that they should have made Kirsten O'Brien do the programme live at 5am - she wouldn't have sounded so annoyingly
chirpy then, would she?

[NetworkGuy]

treacletart - not ditching it all. Drop from 1400 hours to 350 hours, as I think I posted recently...