Radio 4's Shipping Forecast reached years old in It had regional variations and was broadcast on medium wave with a network of VHF FM transmitters being added from Radio 4 replaced it on September 30, , when the BBC renamed many of its domestic radio stations, in response to the challenge of offshore radio. It moved to long wave in November , taking over the kHz frequency previously held by Radio 2, and later moved to kHz as a result of international agreements aimed at avoiding interference.
There are occasional concerts, and ball-by-ball commentaries of most test matches played by England cricket are broadcast on long-wave. Because the long-wave service can be received clearly at sea around the coasts of Britain and Ireland , Radio 4 carries regular weather forecasts for shipping and gale warnings. It had regional variations and was broadcast on medium wave with a network of VHF FM transmitters being added from onwards.
Programmes and schedules Daily schedule The night-time feed from the BBC World Service ends at , with a brief introduction from the early shift continuity announcer. On weekdays, " Farming Today ", which deals with news of relevance to the agricultural sector, is followed by the "Today" programme from to At , FM has a four-minute bulletin while long wave has the headline s and then the " Shipping Forecast "; for the same reason, long wave leaves "PM" on weekdays at There is a news programme or bulletin depending on the day at There is an irony that light music today incorporates the pop music of the s.
He was responsible for consistent application of policy across the services and to advise the Director of the implications of this. His changes to music broadcasting across the domestic stations are examples of this remit in action and in result. Yet, as Crozier would point out, Marriott was placed in a space that was intermediary.
From the perspective beneath him he was an executive figure who generated policy issued under a more senior name. His status was not restrictive but rather the intermediary ambiguity allowed him some creative latitude, some diplomatic elasticity, in pursuing his goals, which were the survival of public service radio in a time of crisis and the eventual expansion of domestic radio networks based around the provision of music.
The level of policy-making at which Marriott as a director was engaged was too distant from the grades it most affected internally, who took their instructions from the controller class in terms of the required adjustment of aesthetic evaluation that drove the production of Music Programme repertoire in the way ADSB required.
However, the producers of the music department — of increasing specialisation at this time — were immured from conformance by the weight and complexity of the hierarchical structure. However, the hostility wrought by internal and external forces explain his difficulties with the materialisation of the Music Programme, which suffered a four-year gestation and took a different form from his plan.
His rationalising actions, and the reactions they provoked, bear out the observations on the directorial grade made by Crozier in The Bureaucratic Phenomenon. Nevertheless, despite these hurdles, ADSB accomplished a set of improvements that succeeded in democratising provision by administering a range of generically varied programmes across the networks while delineating for each a distinct taxonomic identity.
Anon, Obituary of Mr. London, The Times , Sendall, Bernard, Independent Television in Britain, vol. Weber, Max, ed. London, Macmillan, , pp. His contributions to BBC radio include the documentaries in America and The Technocrats , where he discussed pop music with Stockhausen. He is consultant to the ensemble Icebreaker. Site map — Legal information and Credits — Syndication. Privacy Policy — About Cookies. Skip to navigation — Site map. Contents - Previous document.
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