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

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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

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.

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).

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

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.

seems we're not alone..
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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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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?

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 ...

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

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?

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