Talk:BBC Radio 2

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Contents 1 Down Time 2 Light Programme 3 Testing new Infobox 4 Station format 5 Schedule - Unencyclopedic? 6 AOR 7 Newsreaders and travel presenters (current) 8 Re: BBC 2

[edit] Down Time

Does anyone have anymore information why Radio 2 went off the air during an interview with Mohamed Al-Fayed? (well actually can someone confirm it actually happened and wasnt just a local fault, which i doubt) -Aled D 19:36, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

I've been searching everywhere and I can't find any mention of it, even on Al-Fayed's own website or message boards, so I've taken that bit down until someone can provide some sort of source for the information. - 314159 22:10, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Light Programme

Wasn't Radio 2 simply a renaming of the Light Programme, rather than a "replacement"?

Fourohfour 22:53, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Testing new Infobox

I am testing the new Infobox Radio Station on this page - if you see any problems, please revert it and tell me (User_talk:Marknew). Thanks! --Marknew 12:14, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Station format

I'm not sure that "Adult Oriented Pop Music" really does justice to the variety of music that the station plays. As far as the weekday playlist goes, I guess that's pretty accurate. But evening output can include anything from middle of the road to classic rock to folk to country to blues. Sundays are much more MOR oriented, with some pop-type slots (notably Sunday Love Songs and Pick of the Pops). Having said that, I'm not sure there's an easy way of summarising it for a short infobox entry. Has anyone else considered any of this? --Matthew Humphreys 13:21, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Schedule - Unencyclopedic?

According to section 1.7.7 of Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and the discussion on the talk page, articles should not include schedules for a particular radio or TV service. The schedule on this page is slightly different. Would it be better to write a brief sentence on each presenter, what they broadcast, the content of their show, times of broadcast and so on rather than a schedule. Sonic 20:46, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

It just seemed a convenient way of providing and arranging the list of current presenters. By all means, if you think it violates Wikipedia policy then change it, but I can't see that there's any neater way of doing it. -Bonalaw 12:04, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

It should in my opinion have two sections, one for Presenters, including the {{main|}} tag to the presenters article, the on-air time for the show and a synopsis of the show they present, the features and music played on the show etc. And then the same thing with the Specialist Shows broadcast on Radio 2. It needs someone with a bit more time and knowledge to do it though than I have! Sonic 17:35, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

So, basically I am in agreement with you. When will the warning be removed and the situation resolved ? It just can't stay flagged forever ! --- 16:54, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

I just had to revert someone who had put the schedule back into the article, please don't re-add the schedule, rather discuss it here or at WP:WWIN (its section 1.7.3 now not 1.7.7. as mentioned above). If it gets added again, I'll tag it appropiately. --tgheretford (talk) 16:22, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm also waiting to see if there is a potential legal issue with other editors placing radio schedules into BBC network radio articles, futher information and the discussion is here if anyone can help: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Radio Stations#Potential legal issue with UK Radio station schedules --tgheretford (talk) 09:50, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AOR

This needs to be explained. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.189.103.145 (talk) 20:32, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Newsreaders and travel presenters (current)

Do we really need this section? I just think it clutters the page. I'm trying to make the Radio 2 page look similar to the Radio 1 page layout.

If no one objects to the deleting of this section then it I shall remove it. --TwentiethApril1986 (talk) 18:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I also want to remove 'Stand-in presenters'. I don't see why people would need to know which presenters are there as stand-ins. Again, no objections I will remove the unnecessary sections. --TwentiethApril1986 (talk) 19:16, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: BBC 2

Why does the brief history section fail to mention that BBC 2 was originally on longwave?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.244.202.40 (talk) 05:43, 1 May 2008 (UTC)