Negligence of FM Gold Station staff

[CRama]

Many instances have been reported about the carelessness and indifferent attitude of the AIR staff. Today's instance prompted me to report this height of negligence of duty.
Today, 6 March 2010 in the FM Gold Station at 5.00 P.M. concert of Shri.Papanasam Ashok Ramani was relayed. I started recording after hearing that his voice is in a better form now. The concert started with a slokam in Karaharapriya followed by Saraswathi Annaye. It was rendered well. Next song was announced as Hiranmayeem in the raga Lalitha. I was happily recording the concert. Just after the ragam was finished, there was an interruption and a recorded music was played for about 5 minutes. Then it started with the neraval in the line Sangeetha Vadya Vinodini and the song ended after usual swaras. It was well rendered. Then came the announcement "informing" that there was some disturbance in the middle- but no regrets even as a formality. The concert continued with Palimsu Kamakshi in Madhyamavathi. After the announcement - alas! I am hearing Lalitha again. I myself was in doubt- Whether I am not able to recognise Madhyamavathi. But I was happy in the sense that now FM has decided to rectify for the interruption and I will get the Lalitha song fully. (Already an hour back, Prema Rangarajan has sung Palimsu Kamakshi in the 4.00 P.M.Slot in the same station.) I was too much ambitious. Again the interruption came in the same place and after 5 minutes of same recorded music the music continued with the neraval of Palimsu Kamakshi in the line Kanthamaku followed by swaras and thani. I did not have the patience to watch whether they had any real regrets. But I am sure that the persons in charge of such gross negligence of duty will go unpunished and it will not be given any seriousness by the persons responsible for this. I have the recorded programme to prove this indifference. Can the authorities give any explanation for this serious negligence.

[VK RAMAN]

You should write to the FM Station Director for addressing the situation. Of course rasikas will give manasika support.

[thanjavooran]

Shri CRama
The worst part of this episode is, few announcers basically do not even know how to pronounce Trinities ' and raga names.
Thanjavooran

[semmu86]

and also the artist's names

[venkat1926]

one announced even declared "ragam-ragamalika"

[laks1972]

Shri CRama
The worst part of this episode is, few announcers basically do not even know how to pronounce Trinities ' and raga names.
Thanjavooran

thanks to reservation, quota etc

[mridhangam]

[quote="laks1972" "thanjavooran"]Shri CRama
The worst part of this episode is, few announcers basically do not even know how to pronounce Trinities ' and raga names.
Thanjavooran

thanks to reservation, quota etc[/quote]
Though you might hv said it right .. yet in a public forum let us restrain ourselves from quoting sensitive issues ...
thank you
J.Balaji

[vasanthakokilam]

Just bad announcers... Any other characterization reflects on our own prejudged opinions. Yes, let us not stereotype. .

[rbharath]

m not surprised at this.

however, being a regular in listening to FM Gold I can say with enough conviction that such errors and distrubances are pretty uncommon. I listen to the FM Gold broadcast everyday and such errors/disruptions are very very few and definitely not regular.

one bad announcer or some serious technical snag might have been a reason.

about announcements like, ragam: ragamalika, i would assume it the artist who is performing who gives the list to the announcer who reads it out verbatim. hence, musically illiterate announcers are not to be blamed.

[thanjavooran]

Shri rbarath,
' about announcements like, ragam: ragamalika, i would assume it the artist who is performing who gives the list to the announcer who reads it out verbatim. hence, musically illiterate announcers are not to be blamed.'

This is incorrect. Is it justified?

Thanjavooran

[sureshvv]

Shri rbarath,
' about announcements like, ragam: ragamalika, i would assume it the artist who is performing who gives the list to the announcer who reads it out verbatim. hence, musically illiterate announcers are not to be blamed.'

This is incorrect. Is it justified?

In this particular case, me thinks you are being way too finicky. "Raga: Ragamalika" may be technically incorrect but conveys the desired meaning. Unfortunately, they are guilty of far worse category of blatant errors and far too often, like finishing a program without announcing who the artistes were or leaving out entire portions of names with announcements like "Nallur Muthaiah Bhagavathar".

[srikant1987]

"Ragam: Ragamalika" is indeed a very minor error. We should just at it. And among possible wrong pronounciations, we have some "acceptably wrong" and some "unacceptably wrong" ones, and it's hard to categorize. Perhaps the Trinity's names can be corrected (since there are only three of them), but I bet the palatals - j in tyAgarAja, sh's in shyAmA shAstrI and the retroflex Sh in dIkShitar aren't too easy to pronounce even for an average, die-hard CM rasika.