There was much talk (or you could say waffle) about expenses, salaries and the Ross/Brand affair when Steve Hewlett interviewed the BBC’s DG, Mark Thompson, for The Media Show last week (Radio Four).
There was much talk (or you could say waffle) about expenses, salaries and the Ross/Brand affair when Steve Hewlett interviewed the BBC’s DG, Mark Thompson, for The Media Show last week (Radio Four). But they ran out of time before reaching the topic any self-respecting radio listener is most concerned about: when will the UK be switching over to digital? Do we need to start saving now to replace all those old-fashioned analogue-receiving sets that will become redundant when the signal is switched off? And what will become of them: the cheap plastic box in the bathroom, the matchbox-sized transistor for under the pillow, the sneaky set in the study for use when we’re supposed to be working and the fancy B&O with speakers in the lounge for late Beethoven or Late Junction on Three?
It’ll be one of the biggest exercises in waste disposal as overnight the entire nation jettisons its armoury of radios.
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