Are Mums Being Treated Badly By Local Radio Stations

[TamsinTiger]

Hello there,

I would be grateful if you could have a look at this thread.

www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1287859&highlight=scr

It started as a discussion about Local Radio playlists and is throwing up some interesting and very patronising attitudes to Mums..

Thankyou.

I am a bit off my own task here..but have to say that this is my first experience of being an OP and some of you are more than a bit hostile..I thought that it was our children who inhabited the playgrounds?

Firslty you have posted in AIBU - so always the potential to be hostile .

You think this thread is hostile - this is a walk in the park , wait until you enter the world of breast v bottle , parent & toddler parking , SAHM v WOHM ...

aibu does tend to do this but there is also a radio addicts section and to be honest linking to another thread on another website doesn't really help when putting your point across.

i'm generally nice

don't take it personal like but as i said avoiding aibu would have been better

But when people disagreed with you you said they were not intelligent. That's going to get a few of these faces immediately.

If you want to start a discussion or raise an issue, I agree with sea that it's better to make the point yourself in the OP, rather than just pointing people to another thread on another website. Tbh, the contents of thread really didn't help the credibility of your argument anyway, and saying that mums are being 'treated badly' also undermines your credibility a bit as it seems like a massive overreaction.

Nobody's being hostile. We're simply disagreeing with you. There's a difference.

Local radio is too annoying to bother with anyway imho. DH loves it but so many ads and annoying inane DJ's the music hardly comes into it, it needs to come with a fast forward button.

For the brief times in the car when I get to listen to the radio, without the ds's demanding their fave cd's, its usually Radio 2 and thats for the chat not the music. If I want music I have my CD's of stuff that I like.

I always listen to Radio 4

I don't know about anyone else, but when I saw the thread title, I assumed it would be something like a mum having been sacked from a local radio station for being pregnant or something equally serious and outrageous, and I opened the thread all ready to be supportive.

So when it was just some people not liking the playlist at their local station, sympathy did rather disappear. A thread title that actually reflects the point you are making would probably be more likely to get some people agreeing with you.

Sorry, not seeing the "hostile" responses.
Your thread title as callalillies rightly says is not reflective of the point you make.
In fact i cant read anything more than you dont like the music that your local station plays.
I have some suggestions for you
Spotify
Choose a station you like on the internet
Digital radio
If you have sky/virgin they have loads of radio stations
if you cant find what you like from that there prob isnt a lot of hope for you.
I am a little bit partial to Absolute80s myself, not a housewife, but on mat leave loving a bit of singing and dancing in front of the babies when i -getoffmumsnet- do a bit of housework.

You jumped on the discrimination against mums OMG OMG OMG train when simply, you just don't like the music your local radio station plays.

I don't like cheesy boyband pop - does that mean that the big local stations around here are discriminating against me? Nope, it just means I don't fit their listener profile very well anymore (now if it was back in the days of Bros and Jason Donavan pre-Iceland adverts - you'd be talking) and I switch to stations where I DO fit the profile.

That's not discrimination - that's just having a target market that you don't fit. I can't stand Radio 2 personally (husband loves it and keeps retuning the radio in the car - he loathes Radio 1 wiht a passion) - I don't sit and scream discrimination because it's not playing my taste in music, I just listen to something else.

Can't quite see how it's discrimination against mums either. I wasn't aware you HAD to be a mum to have the radio on in the daytime (damn I'll go throw mine in the nearest river now - how wrong I have been), what about all those people who work in places that have the radio on all day in the background, what about drivers who have the radio on in vans and lorries?!

You posted in AIBU.

When you do that you take your life in your hands.

I don't do local radio tbh. I want to care but...no wait...I don't.

Just joshing

Post in an appropriate section and I bet your response will along the lines of what you were hoping for.

I understand. I listen to BBC Local radio on occasions, I enjoy the chat and although I like all kinds of music theirs has always seemed terribly samey. Is that what happens when you reach 50 then, you just want to hear lots of stuff that sounds like what they played yesterday? Or perhaps you just start forgetting what they played yesterday? I thought it was because they only had a couple of cds, I didn?t realise I was outside of their target audience, I thought as I?m local I would have qualified. Perhaps it?s a case of ?This is a local shop for local people??

If you post in AIBU then you might not get cuddled hun (har har). I don't really understand your problem anyway - is the fifty something man clamping headphones over your ears? Can you not just twiddle your radio knobs to something more to your (obviously far more discerning than the rest of us) liking? And just ask the blardy question - don't make us have to go raking through other links.

Thankyou Pauline XX

AT least one of you understood x

To others on here..I did not understand about the AIBU thread..mine was a genuine question..about music on Local Radio and how it is targeted to Mums..yes I suppose it was fairly boring and I apologise for that.And no I could not claim that my husband was behind it or that I had been raped by a managing editor!!

But most of you made me feel like the new girl at school who is wearing the wrong clothes so gets her hair pulled and is deliberately humiliated.

and now you're our friend don't take it personal

"and no i could not claim that my husband was behind it or that i had been raped by a managing editor!!"

WTF?

so people didnt "get" your thread,not because it was boring, but because your title was nothing to do with your post.

Quite why you need to make a comment about rape is beyond me, again irrelavant to your post and frankly FUCKING OFFENSIVE, particularly with your exclamation marks afterwards.

I used to be on the panel of random people who picked the music for my local radio station! I like cheesy disco 80s shite!

Erm...sorry.

Well at least I asked the question??

Even though I somehow got trashed for that..

Never mind...enjoy all the cheese...

thought I would catch up on the thread. The responses are hilarious. This thread was just a waste of thread space OP. You dont have to look far to determine who the 'unintelligent' one really is you

I think the beauty of radio in the UK is the vast choice we have. Local stations will play commercial tracks, they have to, it is what the mainstream like! You then have more diffusion radio stations such as 6Music, classical stations...that way the listener can pick and choose the station according to their taste. Obviously your local station has to appeal to the lowest common denominator, and that is going to be chart music interspersed with pop hits from the past!

it is not a reflection of a person's intelligence! I studied at Oxford university and the most popular tracks at our bops? (disco nights)? 80's pop! go figure.

Well as this seems to be more like the AIBUADHDHRTPMT thread I'll say that if you read carefully the OP did not say anything was a reflection of a persons intelligence. Perhaps she posted it in the wrong place as some of you have said and she has explained but I don't think that's any excuse for ripping in to her as some of you did. Thankfully I'm sure she's the kind of person who doesn't need to be validated by the opinions of people on numsmet.