To be irritated by the amount of airtime Radio 1 gives to promoting its live events?

[PinotMwah]

OK so full disclosure: 1: I'm way out of R1 demographic (think R4) and 2: I'm in a really grumpy frame of mind for reasons anyone who has read my other thread will realise and probably need to get over myself.

But I like to listen to pop music from time to time to unwind and when I'm cleaning. It's impossible to switch Radio 1 on at the moment without listening to the DJs banging on about how great their big weekend/biggest weekends are. All the music they play is extracts from this weekend and that weekend. Its as if you didn't attend one of these events you're not welcome.

I get that they need to promote these things and that tons of young people go to them etc. But it would be really nice just to listen to some music without endless reminiscing about how great Sam Smith/Ed Sheeran was on the main stage and how you had to be there etc.

R1 is for young people but it used to be pretty good at being fairly inclusive and well-rounded. Now it just feels like the marketing arm of the live events department of the BBC.

switches back to the Archers

You can hear pop music in other places than Radio 1...

I get fed up with it every year. First you have the build up which goes on for yonks and then you have the painful week after where they play recordings from the weekend. I don’t want to listen to a crappy recording of a live version, give me the proper version!

YANBU it irks me every year. If I wanted to hear umpteen thousand people singing over a sub-standard live version of a song I would go to the damned festival myself.

EastMids I know, and I frequently do switch over to other stations.

But Radio 1 is paid for through the licence fee, it is targeted at a certain demographic but is supposed to be accessible to a wide range of people. Also one of the major pitches of BBC services is that they are supposed to be free from advertising.

At this time of year its like an endless series of rolling ads for the live events and I think when we've all essentially paid our license fee on the basis that we get access to ad free radio its a bit of a cheek.

It's also deeply deeply tedious and I'm sure it puts a lot of people off.

I'm not saying they shouldn't promote them at all, just that a bit of moderation would be nice.

They have the events to provide programming.

Teresa sure -- but the BBC's annual income is in the region of about £4 billion annually. You might think R1, as one of the most popular stations (and presumably with a decent slug of that budget allocation) would be able to fund some programming that doesn't revolve around its live events. The other stations seem to manage it.

YANBU. I listen to Radio 1 and I can't wait for Biggest bloody weekend to be over.

Another thing that annoys me is how every show is geared toward getting people to call in or text the show. I'd love to know how much money they make from it.

I agree. I love live music but all the build up is ridiculous - 'if you can't make it aren't you lucky that we broadcast it live so poor you doesn't miss out' etc - then they have the bloody show, then they discuss how gutted they are that it's over whilst continuously talking about it and replaying 'hilights'. Which is actually the whole weekend cut, rearranged and pasted back into the daily broadcast. I also find it hilarious that it even manages to make it into Newsbeat in some disguised attempt at news "Fifty thousand people gathered at X Park today for Radio 1's Twentieth Big Weekend. With headlining acts such as Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift the event was also available via the BBCs Red Button" FUCK Off!!!! THEN the DJs discuss the post-big weekend blues comparing it to fucking Christmas Day!!! Errr..... No. So... YANBU. Its really fucking annoying.