Your comments: Love the network, hate the jingles?
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I love the 91Èȱ¬. I think I've blogged before about how the lifeline to a more familiar world is a real comfort when the 'Brit abroad' is feeling isolated and lonely. At any given time you can tune in and suddenly hear the tones of your favourite correspondent or the occasional football commentary from 5 Live.
So far, so good, but Joe isn't keen on one of our jingles:
However, wonderful as I feel this institution undoubtedly is, I have a gripe. There's been a jingle recently that comes on from time to time which is just the most patronising bit of tosh I think I've ever heard on the airwaves. Word for word, it runs like this..."The world is big. Your radio is small. Only the 91Èȱ¬ can put the world.... in your radio".
Come on Beeb. Surely you can do better?!
Interesting point! Here's the jingle - judge for yourselves.
I spoke to the team responsible for this and other jingles - they call them preludes - on the World Service. They said they were very interested in audience feedback - especially as the jingles are due a revamp very soon. What would you change? What does a good jingle sound like to you?
Over To You is your chance to have your say about the 91Èȱ¬
World Service and its programmes. It airs at 10:40 and 23:40 every Saturday, and atÌý02:40 on Sunday (GMT).
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At 29th Oct 2009, RomeAnna wrote:I don't know why you think you need jingles at all. I've been listening to the World Service for 35 years, and as I remember you didn't have them originally - you just had the instantly recognizable tones of "Lilliburlero". Then for some reason known only to God and the 91Èȱ¬, you decided to introduce them - I don't remember exactly, was it about 15 years ago? Your initial attempts at jingles were particularly excruciating - a number of listeners complained about them at the time. I'm glad to say they've improved since then. But as far as I'm concerned we all managed very well without them, and I'd be very happy if you got rid of them entirely.
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