General incompetence

Ignorance, poor training, not knowing how the kit and the systems work are all to blame,
Parts of the BBC do good work only to have it ruined by poor training.
I used to have problems with BBC radio and the RDS travel announcements. Some useless tossers at WM kept forgetting to flick the switch to turn TA off. Loud unwanted music erupting from my speakers! A good system developed by BBC Engineering, ruined by DJs or news presenters or their producers.
 
Parts of the BBC do good work only to have it ruined by poor training.
I used to have problems with BBC radio and the RDS travel announcements. Some useless tossers at WM kept forgetting to flick the switch to turn TA off. Loud unwanted music erupting from my speakers! A good system developed by BBC Engineering, ruined by DJs or news presenters or their producers.
It's in their interests to keep you listening to their station, so tardiness switching off TA is to be expected.
 
I used to have problems with BBC radio and the RDS travel announcements. Some useless tossers at WM kept forgetting to flick the switch to turn TA off. Loud unwanted music erupting from my speakers! A good system developed by BBC Engineering, ruined by DJs or news presenters or their producers.
It's in their interests to keep you listening to their station, so tardiness switching off TA is to be expected.
Poor training... and they got royally ---censored--- for doing it by senior management of Local Radio (and based in Brum as it happens)...

All events were logged in the RDS computer systems and, eventually, a time-out was introduced to stop the accidental incidents. {Some/many? TAs were triggered by tones on the jingles at start/end -- assuming that new jingles had them added correctly, on cartridges back in the day}.
EDIT IIRC there was also a big flashing red light installed to 'remind' them!!

The same issues with AR schedule changes were occurring in the analogue PDC days and it was never easy to get to the 'right' management chain within that, fragmented, system at that time.

Only way to 'encourage' better practice at BBC is to log it in the Audience Complaints system. The logs are distributed to (and read at) the highest levels internally.

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On another AR/CRID error: EastEnders BBC ONE had a new one yesterday for this coming week (that includes a, rare, Friday episode).
 
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