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posted by Ben
on Thursday April 03, @01:38AM
from the stating-the-obvious dept.
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Arnold Frolows yesterday demonstrated to even the most dim-witted onlookers - that means you, ABC management - that he's not fit to hold the job of music director at national youth broadcaster JJJ. Frolows agreed to pull from air new Radiohead tracks that the station had downloaded off the internet (possibly from here or here). 'We don't want to infringe on the copyright,' Frolows crawled. Why? Because EMI asked him to.
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It should be abundantly clear by now that Frolows has no idea what he's doing. Radiohead are very popular; JJJ listeners are probably interested in hearing the songs. As a government broadcaster, JJJ's role is to serve its listeners, not multinational record companies.
What, pulling them from JJJ is going to stop the MP3s doing the rounds? Not likely. Airing Radiohead bootlegs is just the sort of meaningless rebellion you'd expect from a supposedly youth-orientated station.
It's not as if EMI would actually sue JJJ. Sure, they'd have grounds - but any music director knows that record companies need radio more than the other way around.
It seems Frolows has forgotten this basic rule of broadcasting. He has forgotten who he is supposed to serve. He has become captive to the needs of the music industry. He has lost touch with reality.
All of the above has probably been obvious to the average Rocknerd reader for some time.
But maybe this latest folly will help wake those who make the decisions up. Signs are they're pretty tired of Frolows. Whisper is that he's for the jump.
But then, those signs and whispers have been around for years. This time, please, ABC management: ditch Arnold. He's past due.
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Yeah Ben, could not agree more - Arnold has well and truly become an embarrassment to the ABC. The JJJ programming is incoherent (Gerling's latest drivel, anyone?), and he has veered further away from his job description and started to act in an even more totally autocratic manner. Certain of the on-air staff are severely unhappy with his behaviour. The sooner he's removed, the better. Trouble is, his redundancy package is now so huge that he will never resign, so somebody in the ABC has to exercise some leadership, good judgement and courage. ABC? What chance is there of that happening?
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I stopped listening to JJJ regularly three years ago (strangely enough, when I turned 26) due to the tedium of the format this in a market where the alternatives are two commercial stations FM which are as stale as you'd expect, one Lawsie-syndicating AM, plus the other ABC stations, of which I usually listen to the local yokel network. JJJ's alright for the kiddies, though, I suppose.
Have RRR got any plans to set up a repeater near Albury? (What with all the decent venues being clamped by philistine post-occupants I don't think there's much point to moving in Melb'n at this point, although there is the footy as well...)
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I don't get it, Nova has played MP3s as well, so what's the big fuss here?
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Artists are responsible, because for some reason we think we should be millionaires for making people smile. But I don't worry too much, because it will be over soon. There won't be a market for making people smile because kids will just do it for free. — Dangermouse
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