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I've dipped in and out over the last few days. Seems like there's lots of music, not so much of the speech. Can't understand how it costs so much.

MR Rajar today , and the report into the BBC from OFCOM, should be a wake up call for Comms Commission. pongo and me are right. The future of taxpayer funded broadcasting is in funding content, not in funding delivery methods. And it has come about a lot faster than I anticipated.

Manx Original Radio Original News Station "Good morning, you're listening LIVE to M.O.R.O.N.S..."

Proper, long form journalism which can be committed to a public archive. That's what public service broadcasting is. Not playing Mariah Carey songs and asking 'What's that noise?'.

I heard it - it was good. It could have done with another draft as there was a few colloquialisms in the voice-over that cheapened it, but it was very well produced and the presenter was engaging. People would happily pay for that kind of thing. Manx Radio should be doing more of it.

Seems to me that they've decided to chase the 3FM listeners. Not sure that's a smart move in the long term.

Fair play. Hope you get 'Stu's Crew' going - that's the kind of late night listening that would interest me, light-hearted but opinion driven chat. Then you can have as many Sugababes songs as you like. Wish you all well for Saturday, and for the show going forwards.

Did Stu really get into radio to do a late night show so he could play Sugababes at half after midnight? I was hoping for a lot more Stu and a lot less of the musak.

The 5am one is weird to me - cutting into your breakfast show at 7.30am and changing presenting team is just odd. Does anyone really need to listen to Manx Radio at 5am? Or was it just a case of having to find a space to accommodate all the legacy presenters without upsetting anyone?

But do Manx people like anything, ever? 10pm is the only time of day that UK radio does anything interesting. There's lots of competition, Stu, but I wish you well.

The Isle of Man - the only place in the world where, if you want a Swimming Pool, you need to order a roundabout.

Shall we give Alex some credit then? I think we should. It's not my cup of tea, but fair play to him - who else has had a hat-tip from Steve Wright?

While all of Stu's post might be fair comment in the battle between the three local stations, he decides to ignore the bigger point: there is not point in PSB radio anymore and there hasn't been for a long time. The money spent should be ringfenced and spent on promoting a plurality of content from local providers delivering content in all formats, and should also fund a news service. We should not be subsidising Phil Collins through PRS fees out of a stretched public purse.

Boris Johnson tells outrageous lie about Manx Kippers to get headlines:

How much of the £3million that the IOMG receive in advertising and sponsorship deals is just from other parts of IOMG / faux privatised companies?

Energy FM do. Their presenters phone their shows in from the UK.

http://www.audiocontentfund.org.uk/ A better model for the outdated grant we give to one radio station. It would not see the end of Manx Radio, it would just put the money towards developing a wealth of easily accessible Manx content, handed down from one generation to the next. Instead of subsidising Phil Collins records.

Unlikely if he's from a BFBS background. The answer to this long term is the same one I've said over and over on here: fund the public content separately in a "pool" and let all the stations use it / rewrite it. These costs can then easily be defined and controlled, and they will be related to a tangible benefit that I'm pretty sure everybody would want to exist: genuine public interest broadcasting. Outisde of that the wacky 'jocks' can fight it out amongst themselves for who gets the most advertising and the stations can all cut their cloth accordingly. The Communcations Commission can ensure that each of the stations has to take some of the "pool" material, but 3FM / Energy / Manx wouldn't have to run a newsroom at their own expense and could concentrate on what they're good / not very good at. The model for public service broadcasting is broken in the UK, and the one we have over here is even worse than that one. The world has moved on very quickly, radio is not just an audible medium, sent down from the heavens for us grateful listeners anymore. You wouldn't know it, listening to Manx.

https://media.info/radio/stations/manx-radio/listening-figures https://media.info/radio/stations/3fm/listening-figures Juan might have a point, to be fair. 3FM nearly bagging as much of the market as Manx, but at no cost to the taxpayer.

What are Energy FM's RAJARs? Oh, that's right. I remember.

Is it possible his "We shall fight them on the beaches" speech was about the Tampon Invasion of North Ramsey Beach?

You'll always have us, Stu.

Also, can't he do a bit of sideline work for MR? His business, surely?

I couldn't quite believe my ears this afternoon. I listened for 40 minutes and heard more Britney Spears than I heard 'talking' about the subject. When the email was read out, there was little context given for the listener to understand what it was referencing and then Stu was obviously compromised by the topic - because it's the station and he has to support it - and the interview in question - because he was implicated in parts of it (very unprofessionally by both Charles and Paul, I might add) - so he wasn't able to give a full answer or to use the email as an opportunity to talk up the subject again. If it's not possible to discuss the future of the station because of supposed "impartiality", then don't do it as a subject! The "impartiality" thing is a fig-leave anyway - all that is required is a variety of views across the station, across the week. In the PM interview, Charles Guard suggested that impartiality meant that NO opinions could be expressed without people being suspended, but that is plainly untrue. All that is required is that all angles are given an opportunity across the schedule.

Just like Manx Radio, then. I just listened to Stu doing the 'Easter Eggs not Chocolate eggs' thing and it's not even Christmas yet.