6 Music "to be axed"

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!

According to this article here, http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article7041944.ece spineless cocksniffer and Director General of the BBC, Mark Thompson, plans to axe the radio station in a bid to placate critics (i.e. the Daily Mail and Rupert Murdoch) who think that it's digital output is too large.

6 Music is pretty much the only radio station I listen to. It's been an absolute breath of fresh air; free from pressures to play commercial pop, it plays a massive range of new and old music that you would really struggle to hear elsewhere. What really annoys me is that the proposed move is billed as "part of a pledge to focus on quality over quantity". But 6 Music epitomises quality over quantity, as opposed to Radio 1 which is mainly dire. How can they give Sara Cox a job and want to axe 6 Music?

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I have complained and petitioned.

Murdoch can keep his hands off a format that works.

I've already seen a report saying that two or three groups were considering offering to buy the channel from the BBC, but I cannot now find that report in order to post a link. (It may have disappeared, it may never have been accurate in the first place, or maybe I'm just incompetent and can't remember where it was.)

6 Music is pretty much the only radio station I listen to. It's been an absolute breath of fresh air; free from pressures to play commercial pop, it plays a massive range of new and old music that you would really struggle to hear elsewhere. What really annoys me is that it's billed as "part of a pledge to focus on quality over quantity". But 6 Music epitomises quality over quantity, as opposed to Radio 1 which is mainly dire. How can they give Sara Cox a job and want to axe 6 Music?

It's not like there is a commercial station that can be considered a rival to 6Music, there simply isn't anything else that play the same kind of music.

Axe Radio1 instead, there's tons of identikit stations playing the same old crap hour after hour, nobody would miss it.

I've already seen a report saying that two or three groups were considering offering to buy the channel from the BBC, but I cannot now find that report in order to post a link. (It may have disappeared, it may never have been accurate in the first place, or maybe I'm just incompetent and can't remember where it was.)

The problem with a commercial organisation buying it is evidenced by the London and now digital station XFM. XFM started out life as a genuinely innovative station, playing music which had little chance of being heard on other radio stations. But it wasn't commercially successful enough, and didn't pull in enough advertising revenue, so was sold to Capital Radio and mutated into a platform for supermarket indie and dadrock. Whereas before you could hear the Pixies doing Crackity Jones, you now get The Pigeon Detectives doing This Is An Emergency. Too frigging right it is.

Surely the BBC being non-commercial means that stations like 6 Music are entirely the point of it's existence. Otherwise it may as well give up and we'll just have Heart FM and ITV.

Valid points; even if 6 Music does get bought by a commercial operation, the very fact they have to make money (or at the very least, break even, if a charity runs it!) means they have to play things which attract a sizeable audience.

It's a faint hope, at least. Better than the station shutting down altogether.

One of the best radio staions going aswell, sign of the times with the BBC.

It will be such a shame with so many million listeners - NOT!

About time the BBC was reigned in a little.

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I'd give Radio 1 the bullet if it were my choice. The radio equivalent to The Sun.

Not listened to the radio since i was about 14. Is simon bates "our tunes" still on radio 1?

The question is why does the BBC try to compete with the commercial broadcasters for the mainstream Pop audience.

Surely scrapping radio 1 would save more money without the public losing a great deal of variety in choice.

Is radio 2 that much different to radio 1?

Not being much of a music fan it seems to me that there are loads of pop stations and only the one station doing the type of thing that is on radio 4

Is it fact or speculation?

Hope it stays on because there is nothing else like it. It may depend on public reaction, if enough people complain they will keep it (providing the listening figures are high)

For specialist music or genre listening I use Last FM on the computer. It's superb.