On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:14:22 +0100, "David Looser"
wrote:

"Don Pearce" wrote in message
news:4a47a781.1080618593@localhost...

Unfortunately local radio tends to descend pretty rapidly into either
a jukebox or the direst of phone-ins - the only options they can ever
afford. You got out of that the best way you could, I think.


I agree, the local ILR stations just provide an endless barrage of heavily
compressed pop interspersed with mindless chatter and tedious ads. Whilst
the BBC local is just so parochial.

Only national radio can have audience figures large enough to justify the
costs of producing quality radio. I know a lot of people like to knock the
BBC, but as far as I can see it's the only organisation with the will and
recourses to do that


Yes - on DAB right now only the BBC bouquet is even remotely
listenable; the rest is just entropy.

d