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Zacs - Thanks for your second link highlighting the success of the new Boom network.
It's growing audience shows that, for all its focus groups and red-braces-wearing 'executives at the BBC, radio is not rocket science.
You don't need anything beyond a rudimentary grasp of human nature to know that if you provide songs that people like, played by people you like, you will get an audience.
Contrary to what the BBC appear to think, changing presenters based on age runs the risk, not only of losing the audience they have, but failing to gain a new one using un-tested presenters in un-tested time slots, which is a recipe for failure.
The annoying thing is, the BBC have been taught this lesson several times already, and appear to have a vested interest in not learning it.
If they were a commercial organisation, they would absolutely, rightly, succumb to market forces and rapidly cease to exist.
Because they are shored up by public money, they are able to play their silly games without sanction or justification, and that cannot be right.