To prefer ‘Radio’ to ‘Sounds’

Late Junction often sounds like someone banging a door or flushing a toilet.

I suppose radio is just the technology which uses radio waves to carry sound but I suspect a real life Sioban Sharpe from W1A is behind this change.

Notice that almost every station national and local has radio in the title.

Oh for goodness sake, why do these people find it necessary to be trendy and 'down with the kids' I shall revert to using the word wireless as a protest ?

I agree! It wasn't broken, but someone with a budget to spend has made it their business to 'fix' it anyway.

Very imprecise. Does television come without sound

I like listening to the wireless in the car.

aka car radio

I used to listen to the Wireless now I listen to the Radio but I won’t be listening to the Sound

The Hills are Alive!

Oh how ridiculous!

So good to see that DH and I are not alone. Wonder how many meetings they had to make the changes. Very strange!

Good point, Jalima. "Car radio" is something completely different from "car sounds". The sound of a car is what you hear if you turn the radio OFF!

JackyB
Quite.
It's just daft.

I'm with you all. Someone at the Beeb being paid too much to neologize!

I am going to join the "wireless" gang as a protest to inflicting this stupid , trendy, totally unnecessary terminology upon us. I bet someone is being paid handsomely to come up with this modernisation of the airwaves. Most presenters are a turn-off too.

Its always been wireless to me and I aint gonna change.

I'm another that's with you on this. Nothing wrong with how it was, so why it had to "modernised" is beyond me. Nice to know that someone is sat in a pokey little room, somewhere in the bowels of the BBC, chewing on the end of their pencil and trying to think of how that can reinvent the radio.

It gets worse. Now tv has been replaced by ‘reel’ and you now have to look for ‘sounds’ (i.e. radio) under ‘other’.

I was invited to download the newsBBC sounds app today. I quite like how it us set out, but whether the content will be better I don’t know. More from me later.

On the new app they have a choice of all the BBC local radio stations. I’m not sure if I should ask for recommendations here or on a separate thread but here goes.

Can anyone recommend their favourite local radio station?As we are countrywide on GN I thought we could exchange good programmes.

I listen to Radio Berkshire (also Radio Southern Counties) each week night to the Paul Miller Show 10.00pm to 01.00am. As well as having a good laugh I drop off to sleep more easily listening to it. They have games, quizzes, call-ins and although occasionally I pull my earphone out when it is a caller who irritates me, on the whole I enjoy it.

Can you recommend your local radio (sound?) station ?

I'm told it's "Sounds" because it now incorporates podcasts and not just normal radio. Whatever it is it's infuriating. Every time they do an "upgrade" it is more difficult to navigate to what you want. I was always told that the fewer clicks a user has to make the better but the BBC seem to have the opposite view.

It’s just to allow them to streamline their services more. So instead of having separate radio, podcasts, live music apps, it’s now all in one place under sounds.

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Another wireless listener here.

I am back with BBC Radio IPlayer as I can’t find any archive drama. It may be there but I can’t find it. I wish there was a contact us address available.

Last night I listened to an episode of Round the Horne and I also listen to Paul Temple.

I heard a trailer for it on the wireless and did wonder what they were on about. Soooo, Sounds is radio? Now - if they’d called it Audio I would have understood. I wonder what they’re going to call TV and stuff we watch, bearing in mind it’s available on tablets and phones now. Sees?