{"id":11577,"date":"2016-08-05T22:39:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T21:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11577"},"modified":"2016-08-05T22:40:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T21:40:48","slug":"its-life-but-not-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11577","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s our tune, Mavis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Radio 1, in its ever-continuing drive to keep focussed on the younger audience,\u00a0has shed another million or so listeners.<\/p>\n<p>But the suits at BBCR1 say that&#8217;s OK. Losing a million or so listeners (they say) is cool, because you&#8217;re only counting listeners, instead of counting, er, YouTube views. Even though all of the BBCR1 YouTube views could actually be down to a couple of dozen pimply 12yo youfs in, er, Doncaster.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, the suits at BBCR1 know what they&#8217;re on about. Allegedly.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s a thought.<\/p>\n<p>With the average listener age of BBCR1 being 4-1\/2 now, it means that the average BBC Radio 1 listener has never heard this kind of stuff:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pBJu8FxmN7c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this is a good thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Radio 1, in its ever-continuing drive to keep focussed on the younger audience,\u00a0has shed another million or so listeners. But the suits at BBCR1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}