No Old Buffers At The BBC
At a meeting in Glasgow this afternoon our guest speaker was Andy Parfitt, the Controller of Radio 1 and 1 Xtra and the man in charge of the BBC's popular music strategy. I'm not sure who is running our unpopular music strategy but there's bound to be someone.
Andy gave us an eloquent and compelling account of the BBC's plans and described how the various radio networks were making links with BBC television channels to cover big events like The Proms and T in the Park.
But at one point he tried to tell us how he had been repeating himself at meetings in London.
"I sound like a broken record, " he said, before pausing and wondering aloud if that expression would make sense to anyone born in the post-vynl era.
"Perhaps it should be 'I sound like a skipping CD,' " he mused, before rejecting that and finally landing on the perfect expression for this age of digital downloads and internet radio
"I sound like a buffering stream," he concluded.
If William Wordsworth was alive today he'd be using lines like that in his rap-poems.
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