Ritchie Anderson

[DogRuff]

Why? What is he for? It’s like the powers that be on TV desperately wants to make him… something. But he’s got no charisma, no wit, no discernible talent and as proven on WWTBAM just now, very little in the way of brains.

I am quite baffled.

Because @EnjoyingTheSilence the BBC are very good at constantly pushing people down your throat because they have decided we should like them.
I haven't had a TV for over 10 years largely because of this.
Why did they think people who had listened to Terry Wigan for decades would want Zoe Ball?
They ram Strictly down your neck at every opportunity and the overpaid female presenters it's tedious. So yes there is the off button and I've used it

Can’t abide listening to Richie Anderson, traffic fine but as a presenter he’s awful. Glad that Scott Mills has gone to the breakfast show as we don’t listen to that. Love Vernon, enjoy Jeremy Vine, see how Trevor Nelson goes in the afternoon.

Weekends on Radio 2 are hit and miss. I find Romesh brilliant on tv but not on the radio, Mark Goodyear is ok, love Rylan. Paddy on Sunday is good but the rest of Sunday is terrible.

We put Greatest Hits on for the Simon Mayo album show and really like it. However, the adverts are bloody awful.

I listen to 6 Music. I get fed up of Radio 2 presenters constantly talking over the music.

I cannot listen to R2 at all now - I alternate between Virgin, Greatest Hits and Planet Rock.

I don’t think that’s the full story re Ken leaving - I’m sure I’d read that he had been treated fairly badly by the BBC but they just assumed he’d sign his new contract.

But he chose not to stay with a corporation that took him for granted.

They are terrible for deciding someone is popular and then shoehorning them into everything

See also Alex Scott. And the Mabuses.

CollaterlieSistersSister

Yes that’s what I read too.

I've been listening to 5Live a bit for 3 years and they had a great presenter on an afternoon - Nihal Arthanayake - good magazine type programme and they've changed him to a white male presented politics show. No idea why.
Naga Munchetty is fabulous on the Radio.
The Radio2 treated Janice Long and Alex Lester appallingly. And what the BBC did to Paul Gambaccini was despicable.

I know 🥴😂

And the saddest was even Steve Wright in the end and he passed away before moving to new pastures. Appalling treatment of a kind man who had no scandal and wasn't a perve or a creep.
Now they've got sext pest Vernon Kaye trying to fill the Great Ken Bruce. Radio 2 is a bloody disgrace.

@YorkieTheRabbit yes the album show became a good replacement for me from the great Johnnie Walker's sounds of the 70s.
I agree the adverts, seemingly constant gambling promotion is horrendous but I find the BBCs constant promoting of Strictly and Traitors equality annoying.

I like Claire Sturgess on Absolute she does great weekend evening shows and has been doing some shows on Greatest Hits.
I flit between Greatest Hits but too much Michael Jackson and gambling adverts,
Absolute but they got rid of Frank Skinner in a nasty way last year so Saturday mornings I'm with Jenny Powell on GH! Andy Crane is on there too formerly of the Broom Cupboard in the late 80s! He is on at 10pm and other fillers. Kate Thornton is good I'm surprised I like her but she comes out with some one liners and I laugh out loud.
5Live I listen to a lot now too.
Where have you been trying @MonkeyTennis34 ?

Who? Never heard of him. Off to Google.

@Luddite26
I’m trying and quite liking Classic FM although Alexander Armstrong’s public schoolboy accent does grate on me a bit!

Loved Graham Norton’s R2 show so I sometimes listen to him on Virgin radio. Love Grill Graham!

Ive always enjoyed all things Radio 4.

Just realised, I do listen to another R2 presenter..Vernon Kay. Never thought that would happen post-Ken but VK has grown on me and we’re similar ages do I get a lot of his references.
That said, I’m not a fan of 10 to the Top!
Bring back Pop Master…..is Ken still doing this on Greatest Hits?

I know this has gone off topic a little, but none of the GH presenters annoy me and its playlist suits me. It’s the station my car is usually tuned to.

Simon Mayo (obviously!) and KB. Andy Crane is a good listen as well.

I just wish there were less adverts, but I suppose they do need to afford SM & KB’s salaries.

Bring back Pop Master…..is Ken still doing this on Greatest Hits?

If I remember rightly Ken Bruce owns the rights to Popmaster which is why Radio 2 needed to come up with an alternative. I agree Ten to the Top isn’t great, a bit too convoluted for my liking.

DH left the radio on radio 2 so I just hear the most awkward exchange between vernon and Jeremy. It was about home working:
VK - staff in my bank they all work at home
JV - how do you know? Were you chatting them up?

Awkward pause

VK - we conversed

Given VK's past with texting other women etc I expect that was not a conversation he enjoyed 😂. it did remind me though to switch off at noon because JV is unbearable

@MonkeyTennis34 yes KB is still doing PM on GH! I think it's actually harder on there lol.
I think this thread is showing how important radio still is to many people. It is good company when it is right.

I listen to more pod casts now after leaving Radio 2. Before 2017 I had Radio 2 on 18 hours a day!

I understand the BBC giving lots of projects to Paddy McGuinness, they hired him to host the flagship show of Top Gear and he was incredibly successful and popular on that, internationally that show was important. Then they nearly killed Freddie so the show is on permanent hold, and the BBC had to do something with Paddy.

I dont think radio suits him though, he’s good at light TV presenting and working with the public, but doesn’t seem to work on the radio. (But then I thought Claudia Winkleman was terrible when she started on the radio and by the end of her show she had really improved.)

I followed Ken. Radio 2 had been increasingly irritating me for a few years. Scott Mills following Steve Wright was just cringingly dull. Mornings might suit him better maybe? Zoe made me feel like I was sitting in a pub next to the rowdy table where you can't hear your own conversation.

The playlists were also weighing too heavily towards newer music which didn't blend well with the older mix. It always did play some contemporary music/ artists, but in the 90s/ 00s it felt better curated into the mix, and there are new artists that would fit better and benefit from the exposure.

I like a knowledgable DJ that talks to you in civilised conversation, and it's a dying art. I don't want shouting. I don't want continuous phone-ins of dull people whooping about normal things (I don't mind Sara Cox, but I dislike the format of her show)

I reached the point that the adverts on commercial radio are no more annoying than Dua Lipa's latest release that sounds the same as all the others, continous plugs for BBC Sounds, phone-ins and inchoherent mumbling, blathering and bantz.

Ritchie Anderson seems like a nice bloke, but he is lacking the talent to fill the multitude of roles that keep being put his way. Many presenters are one-trick ponies and that's fine. I'd rather have a plethora of presenters sticking with what they're good at than a handful being over-aired. Some need focused structure playing to their interests. Some need other people to fire off. Some excel with a bit of space and spontenaity.

I agree that those who fit tv aren’t necessarily that good on radio. I love Romesh and Claudia on the TV but I don’t care for them on radio. I love Rylan on both.

Generally, I don’t think the BBC has got its strategy right with R2. If you’re going to offload some much loved DJs (Mayo, Bruce, Wright) to make way for younger/female/gay DJs, to appeal to a younger demographic you should be finding another channel or expecting to lose listeners (and those who listen to radio a lot). It’s pretty ageist really, both to DJs and listeners.

I did a double take at that

When you say 'younger' you do realise that the vast majority of the DJs are in their 50s. Sara, Vernon, Scott etc. Is Rylan the youngest in his late 30s?

Trevor is in his 60s, Jeremy is nearly 60, Elaine in her 70s, Tony in his 80s etc,

There is a big mix of ages from 40s and over in radio 2 which does fit as most start listening around that age. Of course 2 current DJs passed away in the last 12 months as well meaning they needed to bring younger folk in.

10 to the top is really hard to score if you're just listening playing along trying to keep score. The joker confuses things

Ken still does Popmaster on GH.
Popmaster TV is on More 4 too, on it’s 2nd series.
We love it.