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The BBC director general, Mark Thompson, said today he believed Radio 1 can adhere to stricter new editorial guidelines, despite just 19% of licence fee payers saying the station had high taste and decency standards in a new survey.

In the BBC report, published today, 19% of respondents said they were satfisfied that Radio 1 had high standards of taste and decency, with 16% saying improvement was needed. By contrast, 61% of respondents said BBC1 had high standards of taste and decency.

"Of all the BBC's services, Radio 1 has the most divided response in terms of morality, values and bahaviour," the report stated.

Speaking on Radio 4's The Media Show, Thompson refuted suggestions from presenter Steve Hewlett that the point of the station's existence was to cross boundaries of taste and decency.

"I don't believe that's the case," he said, adding that a distinction needed to be drawn between what he called "jokey banter" and offensive content.

"This is a world where you have to judge each programme on its merits and when programmes overstep the mark we have to make sure the programme makers understand that, and don't do that in the future," Thompson said.

He added that programme makers should take care "especially when different generations of audience listen to the output" and said the Radio 1 breakfast and drivetime shows, hosted by Chris Moyles and Scott Mills, respectively, were "examples of that".

Among Radio 1's many recent lapses include an Ofcom ruling in March which found that Moyles had condoned negative stereotypes of gay people, after he changed the lyrics of two of Young's songs, Evergreen and Leave Right Now.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/24/mark-thompson-radio-1

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why don't i get asked to do these surveys ?

Hmmm. So many answers, so little time...

Seriously though, I believe you aren't within their age remit. I could be mistaken though, dunno how old/young you are. I'm not included in it either if that's any consolation.

I feel like using rather bad language re this 'taste and decency' report crap, but I shan't because UM might deem me to be 'distasteful and indecent'!;)

I think I'm allowed to use the word 'crap'?

'To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity'.

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i for one can't stand some of the crap on the radio 1 playlist, n-dubz for one, but they can only play what's created so that's not their fault. maybe the station could dig deeper into the last 10 years of music and make it more frequent in their playlist. kerrang played the foo fighters 'all my life' the other day, and didn't need an edith bowman excuse to play it. people enjoy that type of stuff and so did i. every say, 1 in 7 records could be something like that, radio 1 used to play them when they came out.

they also need something new between mills and moyles, to keep people interested and not turn over to local radio. there's nothing there that makes a lot of people i know want to listen. people would rather put up with the adverts on galaxy and kerrang and have more music frequently than listen to edith talk movies and seemingly play 3 records in 45 mins, or jo whiley talk about some band she's just heard about 2 years after everyone else. radio 1 should of snapped up dave kelly from galaxy and gave him a partner, he was good on his own just talking to his producer who didn't even have a mic.

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Is this the results from the general pop up survey on the R1/BBC website?

Can't really work it out but I don't think it is.

The report, based on interviews with 2,700 people, is the "most exhaustive piece of audience research" the BBC has ever undertaken into the subject, according to the corporation...

The report was ordered by the BBC Trust in November in the wake of the row that engulfed the corporation after Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross left offensive messages on actor Andrew Sachs's answer machine that were subsequently broadcast on Radio 2. The row prompted 42,000 complaints to the BBC.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/24/bbc-standards-report

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Baby wee wee, Baby wee wee!

Perhaps thats one of the things that bring down the decency in the eyes of the elders.

But the point is that why should they have a say? It's just made the target audience laugh and Google it. If it had offended the target audience then maybe they'd have a point.

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The fact is, statistics are never conclusive, its a correlation which could be down to all sorts of things. If they just asked the right people they'd get a much better response.

Hang about, didn't the article mention BBC 1 too? This was a generic "everyone" questionnaire then... given to home owners and parents, the kind of people who will watch BBC 1 all day happily, but can't stand that young new music that that ruddy Radio 1 plays.

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