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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:35 am Post subject: Stewpot On Pop Master |
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After his stint with Junior Choice Ed is back on Pop Master. Is he coming back I wonder? |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:41 am Post subject: |
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I certainly hope so. Here's Ed & Andy Fairweather-Lowe doing Popmaster. _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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SantaFefan
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 11258 Location: top of the cliffs in Norfolk
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:12 am Post subject: |
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I wondered that too. Why else would Ed be hanging around the BBC? I don't think he'd come in just to do Pop Master.
Anyway I sincerely hope he is coming back; Sundays aren't the same without Ed's diversity! _________________ Johnnie Walker read out my message on Pirate Radio! 13/8/07
I have heard how radio should be. |
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:23 am Post subject: |
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Hear, hear!
Ian. |
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Ian Robinson Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3612 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:24 am Post subject: |
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It's interesting that he's at the BBC in London as I don't think that's where he lives anymore, and Junior Choice came from Birmingham (where he popped into Stuart's show). |
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gazmando
Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 560 Location: Huntingdon
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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It would make my year if Ed came back.
I really used to love his show when he was on weekday afternoons.
I'd love to see Ed back in his old slot and hear some music from the 50's to now, delivered in Ed's warm style |
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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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Ed presented on Spectrum FM Spain he used to present the show live from a shed on a golf course. I think he eventually agreed to present it from Birmingham studios? |
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iwarburton
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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Have now heard the one-off Junior Choice edition on Listen Again.
WHY was this man taken off the air?
He should be reinstated at once.
Ian. |
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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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iwarburton wrote: |
WHY was this man taken off the air?
Ian. |
I think there were a few words about this to why? I think there was a few words at broadcasting house as well? |
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firewirefred Guest
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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mark occomore wrote: | Ed presented on Spectrum FM Spain he used to present the show live from a shed on a golf course. I think he eventually agreed to present it from Birmingham studios? |
It wasn't a shed on a gold course, it was from Spectrum's studio at a large golf hotel complex near Marbella. (A shed???)
He subsequently found commuting from his home near Poole to Spain via Malaga exhausting, and so resorted to doing his show from his home via ISDN. I don't think he does it now.
Like many ex-pat radio stations throughout the Spanish costas, Spectrum is pretty naff, so Stewpot is well rid in my opinion. |
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Scott_Nelson Guest
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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Now Michael Parkinson is leaving Radio 2, they have the opportunity to bring back Ed Stewart and allocate him a Sunday morning request show. |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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J_ROC72 wrote: | Now Michael Parkinson is leaving Radio 2, they have the opportunity to bring back Ed Stewart and allocate him a Sunday morning request show. |
That would be a good idea. I miss the eclectic mix of music you got on his shows. It's a chance to reverse a previous disasterous decision. _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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gfloyd
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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Lord Evan Elpuss wrote: |
That would be a good idea. I miss the eclectic mix of music you got on his shows. It's a chance to reverse a previous disasterous decision. |
Is Johnnie Walker that bad? He's got a bit better after a poor start. _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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gfloyd wrote: | Lord Evan Elpuss wrote: |
That would be a good idea. I miss the eclectic mix of music you got on his shows. It's a chance to reverse a previous disasterous decision. |
Is Johnnie Walker that bad? He's got a bit better after a poor start. |
Not at all, Johnnie is a top guy. A proper DJ who talks to his audience, as opposed to shouting down at them. But just to clarify what I meant previously, I was very sad to see Ed Stewart booted off Radio 2, even if he was replaced by another great in Johnnie Walker, whom I was glad to see remain on R2. As it seems that Parky is departing from R2, my message agrees with the idea of re-instating Ed Stewart to R2 in that slot, thus reversing the disasterous decision to boot Ed off R2, but then I think you knew what I was really saying anyway! _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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firewirefred Guest
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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In Johnnie Walker's book he tells of how he agreed with Lesley Douglas that the sunday show would be more "reflective and spiritual" in tone in order to reflect the Sunday feeling, but they quickly realised that even on Sunday people are dashing about and there's still a need for a 'drivetime" feel to the show, and that's why they changed the style to reflect this. His show sounds much better now and he sounds his old self. In fact, I'd say it's the best drivetime show of the whole week. |
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Scott_Nelson Guest
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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Lesley Douglas was wrong to axe Ed Stewart. His popularity on Junior Choice recently was amazing. People were so glad to hear him back on his rightful home.
I hope there are plans to bring Ed Stewart back now Michael Parkinson is leaving. |
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firewirefred Guest
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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I doubt it will happen. Johnnie Walker recently intimated that he didn't see much of a future of "his old gang" on Radio 2 much longer. Clearly, Ms D. has other ideas - more rentagobs and egos-on-legs I fear. |
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Scott_Nelson Guest
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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Rent-a-gob Brand being moved from Saturday nights to Sunday mornings at 11am would not surprise me. It's a sad state of affairs what is going on at Radio 2. People moaned about Jim Moir but at least the station sounded half decent when he was in charge. Nowadays all we get are egotistic loud-mouthed bigots. |
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firewirefred Guest
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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Jim Moir was one of the "old school" long-time staffers at the BBC who had an instinctive feel for broadcasting and audiences - as did many people in the BBC right up to the mid-late 90s. Now it's just run by MBA grads and kids with Media Studies degrees. As people like Moir are either pensioned off, leave voluntarily (as have many, many really good and skilled people) or made redundant (as have many more!) we'll see a BBC that is even weaker and more vulnerable than it is already. |
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Scott_Nelson Guest
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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This would explain why Lesley Douglas has brought egotistic celebrities to Radio 2 to the expense of professional broadcasters. Chris Evans, Russell Brand, Dermot O'Leary, Elaine Paige, Lulu, Davina McCall, Ricky Gervais...if these are the future of Radio 2 then will the last person please turn out the lights. |
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