J4CKO

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Is it me or do Radio One seem to think 93% of the country is Black, nothing against Black people but they play a disproportionate ammount of Black Music and go on about "Black Music" all day, do Black People actually listen to Radio One in their droves or is it Radio One trying to be hip and playing Dizee Rascal to mainly White Van Drivers and Reps?

They Dont play Chinese, Eastern European, Pakistani, French, German, Bangladeshi, Australian etc etc music or if they do they don't single any other minority out, so why the focus on Black Music ?

jonnyrex

BBC 6 music all the way for me..and there news doesnt sound like your being spoken to like a 7 year old i.e john cravens news round style..most the good uns have jumped ship over to 6 music anyway ..

boxst

I listen to Chris Moyles who amuses me whilst stuck in traffic jams in the morning and he plays a variety of music.

Steve

NotoriousREV

Current Radio 1 playlist:

The A List

Fall Out Boy I Don't Care
Girls Aloud The Promise
Iglu & Hartly In This City
Kaiser Chiefs Never Miss A Beat
Keane The Lovers Are Losing
Kings Of Leon Sex On Fire
The Kooks Sway
McFly Lies
MGMT Kids
M.I.A Paper Planes
James Morrison You Make It Real
Ne-Yo Miss Independent
Oasis The Shock Of The Lightning
Pendulum Granite
Pink So What
Razorlight Wire To Wire
Snow Patrol Take Back The City
Sugababes Girls
The Ting Tings Be The One

Ooh, look at it, swimming in negroes

phil_wrx

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saturday night is black music night on radio 1 mate.

zs_phil

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see

Ant

tbf I listen to radio one all day 7 till 5 and I don't think it's black orientated at all.

Gordo

Radio 1 is pants - XFM is the answer

J4CKO

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I have no problem with Black People or Black artists, I am just bemused by the constant mention of Black music like in some way it is seperate from everything else, its just music, they dont mention any other race quite as often, Asian gets dropped in there occasionally but no other race, creed or colour, they dont segregate on sex or sexuality grounds, religous or favourite type of cheese so why the focus on Black music, I personally like a song regardless of the colour of its singer.

That is what puzzles me as does your response, rolling eyes and the implication that I am in some way bemoaning the amount of "Negroes" in the charts, which was not my intention, that is just a reflection of what people are buying, I am just wondering why Radio One feel the need to keep mentioning skin colour in relation to music when, as I have said, it is irrelevant.

eClaire

I read in mixmag yesterday that XFM Scotland is to be bought over by the Galaxy dance network, to be renamed Galaxy Scotland. I love house music, but I do need a rather large indie fix Enjoy it while you can.

fatherpierre

No it's just crap.

Capital is black oriented - and ****

Semper

Radio 2 for me! Not ashamed to admit it! Especially evening times with Mark Radcliffe, drive time with Chris Evans and J Ross on Saturday.

Abdabz

I wrote to the BBC regarding the abhorrent racism that was the creation of 1xtra... It offended me that if they were to have a black music station that they absolutely had to have a station for every race creed and colour or they were in fact being racist.
Kind of like having MOBO awards but not MOWO awards...
Apparantly it's not racist, because radio 1 caters for all... Well I dont listen to Radio 1 anymore because I am over 30 and have a 3 figure IQ, but if Jacko is right then "auntie" is quite clearly losing the radio plot...

dunx

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As an oldie, accept that Radio 1's target audience are baseball cap wearing white-boys, wearing bling, and going brrrap ! at all and sundry......

And yes I do work in the education sector..... BRRRRRRAP !

DJ_DunxC, is comin at'cha.

stevebt

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Same here, although sarah ***** gets on me nerves constantly talking about her dog snop and her baby daughter

oldsplice

And me!

Or Radio 4.

logiclee

Only listen in the afternoon and it's Steve Wright and Chris Evans on Radio 2 for me.

Cheers
Lee

fatherpierre

Yep Radio 2 for me - must be getting old.

Don't mind a bit of radio 5 live, and Absolute Radio is good now it's changed from Virgin Radio,

WRX marv

another 1 for radio2

PaulC72

I have no probs with Radio 1 but I usually only listen to it when I cannot get my local stations i.e if I am going out travelling.

I do think they intimate that black is the way they are going but I doubt that the main people of R1 will let it actually happen. After all thats what 1 extra is 4 init.

NotoriousREV

Radio 1 is the only radio station I listen to. There's too much middle of the road crap on R2 and I can't stand commercial radio without wanting to kill someone, and yet I've never noticed this apparent "obsession" with "black music" other than the references to 1Extra.

Given that comercial music is aimed mainly at a white audience, I don't see any problem with creating a niche station.

My post was simply there to illustrate the fact that your opening gambit of "Is it me or do Radio One seem to think 93% of the country is Black, nothing against Black people but they play a disproportionate ammount of Black Music" is absolutely wrong and unfortunately, yes, it does come across as being somewhat narrow minded, if not actually rascist.

I consider you to be one of the decent people on here but this post disapointed me. I'll get over it

Ant

they do cater for different races too

and commecial radio is pants , i dont want to hear double glazing adverts all day.

and last time i checked RnB was invented by black people which i assume thats why they refer to as black music so i dont see it rascist at all

J4CKO

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Ok, create a niche station, it plays mainly "Black" music, why do they have to point out that its "Black" music, music does not have a colour.

Music is aimed at people, it just seems bizarre to pigeon hole it on skin tone.

Maybe I am completely missing the point, Its just I spent a day listening to Radio One (inadvisable I know) and so many times I heard the Black Music thing, I put Planet Rock on and they talk about music but never mention skin colour, the ethos of the station is based on a genre of music, Black isn't a Genre, Blues, World Music, R n B, Hip Hop, Rap are genre's. There are black people from many parts of the world, it seems kind of insensitive to lump them all together as Black as Aboriginal people are Black, people from the Congo, African Americans, English Africans, South Africans and I bet they don't all like the same thing, its like saying, come on, you'll love this, you are Black.

To be honest though, it doesnt matter, I think we have more to worry about at the moment than the BBC trying too hard to be right on.

f1_fan

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Radio 1 is abysmal but no problem as I am hardly representatative of their target audience

Radio 2 is abysmal as depsite being in their target audience they employ Wogan, Wright and Evans - surely a reason for a triple barrelled shotgun!!

Internet radio - Radio Paradise - Commercial Free Internet Radio - Online Radio, Stone Ground, Hand Mixed, Served Hot for me - no DJs, no egos, just music!!!

Bubba po

Jacko, you said that:

Notorious Rev seems to have pointed out that they, in fact, DON'T, yet he's got "pinked" for saying so.

Music DOES have a colour because it expresses the feelings of the particular ethnic or cultural group from which it springs. If it didn't, it would cease to be a valid form of communication between human beings.

boxst

They gave Geoff Lloyd the drivetime ("hometime") show, so they are okay with me

Steve

fatherpierre

I like Geoff - better when he was with Pete on the breakfast show, but you can't have it all.

Still better than R1, and by far the best commercial station now they have a continuous, non-repetative playlist.

boxst

His late night show that I listened to via the Podcast was brilliant. "Porting Controvesy" used to crack me up.

Steve

fatherpierre

Yes, caught that. Very understated broadcaster.

Mark and Lard are still the yardstick though.....................