samkydd

The point is that people from all races should be integrated into mainstream broadcasting, not single them out to operate exclusively on a "specialist" radio station, or turn up as a token family on a soap, invariably on a purely temporary basis while the main white characters remain there for the life of the series!

I would be deeply offended if I was a good radio journalist and I was excluded from joining say, Radio 4 as a regular newsreader or presenter because they had a niche radio station catering for my ethnic stereotype! Why doesn't Brian Perkins ever read the news on The Asian Network?

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

foha80

We have radio staions which transmit only in the Gaelic, up here in Scotland.

Steve Crook

All radio stations are either targeted at a region, or a group, or both.

Steve

Steve Crook

And some Welsh local radio is broadcast in Welsh

Steve

Steve Crook

Radio 4 is the exception to most things. The Asian network is niche radio, not mainstream broadcasting. As such I'd classify it with stations like Radio 1, Radio 3 or 1 Xtra rather than more broadly targetted stations like Radio 2 or Radio 4.

Just because there is a niche station called the Asian network doesn't prevent any non-asians from working on it. Nor does it mean that asians can't work on other networks.

Usha Gupta has been in The Archers for many years now.

Steve

Steve Crook

I find this to be not only totally meaningless but positively offensive
Have you ever listened to the Asian Network?

Steve

Steve Crook

Let me know how many times they report the traffic in Bombay High Street.
I don't care if you like asian music or are are interested in asian news. You don't have to like everything, I certainly don't. It was your reference to the Bombay traffic reports that I found offensive, especially coming as it did from a position of not knowing what they do broadcast.

Steve

Steve Crook

I'm just trying to stop you from leaping to assumptions, especially insulting ones, about something that you say you've no experience of or interest in.

You don't have to be interested in it. I'm not surprised that you have no interest in it. But when that's the case, it's best just not to comment on things.

Steve

Steve Crook

[quote]
Err... what I had assumed was pretty near the mark, meditation slots / Islam / Hindu / Sikh / Prayer Slots / Silver Street, some sort of Coronation Street, with a strong line in how parents can choose a husband and strange
dialects I could hardly follow.

This station is aimed solely at the Asian listener, to coin a pun > This is a local station for Asian people, there is nothing for you here <

It's best I don't comment I don't think so, I'm entitled to an opinion
/quote]If you don't understand my objection to your insulting whole races then there's nothing more to be said

Steve

Ascoyne D'Ascoyne

What's the purpose of it? Is it to help Asians assimilate British culture or is it serving to widen the multicultural divide even further?

Freddy

With two million British Asians surely they as licence fee payers are entitled to their own radio output. We have Radio and TV Scotland; Radio and TV Wales; English Regional BBC Radio and TV.
One of the symbols of a multicultural society.

Freddy

"What I owe you Colonel Lawrence, is beyond evaluation."

foha80

Wouldn't it be PC not to call it Asian-Any way I think it is called Asian Network just as a way of letting people
know what is in the can. A bit like coming across a MTV music channel called SCUZZZ you sort can guess that you are not going to here a lot of Mantovani.


Terry

Steve Crook

Oh, sorry. I didn't realise that you believed what you read in the newspapers like the Mail & the Express.
In that case you have my sympathy and probably wouldn't want to read things like the NatWest site section L where they are currently offering piggy banks.

Steve

Freddy

I would have thought a multiculture society is just that, one which accepts many cultures and thus can live side by side. We dip our brains and our imaginations into the ones we want to and learn from them. Our lives are often enriched by it, whether it be the arts, travel, religion etc.

Freddy

"What I owe you Colonel Lawrence, is beyond evaluation."

Steve Crook

Are you really that hard of understanding? It's one element of a multicultural society.

Steve