Notices by iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop), page 42

@switchingsocial We had a station here that went the opposite direction, changed from a bog-standard local pop station to a station playing indie, punk, soul, dance, etc with really knowledgeable presenters, mostly musicians themselves.

The ratings dropped like a stone. They gave it 4-5 years to their credit, but eventually we all turned on one morning to hear Take That and Rihanna :/

@bobstechsite Private equity has been good for every company that has been bought out by it.

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@switchingsocial Mostly it's because most people don't listen to a radio station all day. The average listening time is ~20 minutes, and the research says people want to hear their favourite song whenever they tune in.

So songs go around and around, because they want to hit everyone with a popular track during their 20 minute listening window. It makes all-day listening painful but it's proven that reach goes up when stations narrow their playlist, sadiy.

@mayel I do have a Nova related question:

What are the things they do at the top of the hour? Someone says something and a sound effect says 'yay!' and someone else says something and a sound effect goes 'boo!'

I don't understand what's being said because it's very fast, so I'm not sure what's going on! What are they saying?

@Gin Your book shelf looks like mine

@mayel It's funny, there's a station from Belgium that you can pick up here most of the time and I understand it pretty much perfectly. But French when spoken by French people? I don't get any of it. 🤔

@mayel I turn it off when they do a long speech segment because while I can read French, I don't understand enough spoken French to get anything out of it (it's a long time since I was either at school or in France!) but I love the music output.

We don't have anything like it in the UK - everything is very tightly formatted and quite mainstream, even "jazz" and "alternative" stations. Jazz FM UK appears to be aimed at bankers.

@noemi This toot has attracted low-quality answers and has therefore been locked

Breath of fresh air when you are used to BBC 6 Music, which is good (and in English) but can often veer into "white men with guitars" territory at the detriment of other styles of music.

Radio Nova is a hidden gem of radio. It's mostly music through the day but it can swerve from obscure early Beatles through Northern Soul, Nigerian hip-hop, Malian music and drum'n'bass. Great little station out of France.

This is a clever way of presenting necessary but dry information:

http://www.nova.fr/frequences

@t54r4n1 Stress makes my nails and cuticles drop to bits too, so it's not just you

@eribloodlust I have 42x 100mg spiro and 56x 2mg Progynova. I don't take hormones anymore so they are sitting in a drawer, free to a good home. I am not London based but can post.

Is it the heat going to my brain, or did I really just hear "...and you could win tickets to see Grindr The Musical..." on the radio?

@switchingsocial Basically, any deal means we have to stick to EU laws while having no say whatsoever in what those laws are. So much for Taking Back Control. It hands more power to the idiots currently in charge of the EU.

Sensible people would say, okay, perhaps staying in the EU would be the best option so that we can stand up to the French and Germans when they want to bring in a dumb law, instead of just going along with it.

But that would mean politicians losing face, so here we are.

@switchingsocial Will this affect us after we have left?

Also, my computer is overheating and stuttering and hanging. It's a ThinkPad, so you can cook an Ulster Fry on the thing at the best of times.

It's so hot that milk with a sell by date of this Friday has gone off IN THE FRIDGE

I don't know what's going on today. I've got Jack FM on the radio, they're playing a forgotten 2007 artist called Just Jack and someone has put a question on MetaFilter about jacking off.

Shall I just jack it in, go back to bed and start again?