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Topic History of: BBC plan major cuts
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DJones |
http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/index.php?c=551
Mark Thompson, Herr Director General of the BBC, announced yesterday that 6 music was to be closed ... which is obviously a ludicrous decision for those who actually love hearing great music on the radio ... so I've written to the BBC Trust, who apparently have the ability to reverse the decision, and if you feel this way inclined the link is consultations.external.bbc.co.uk/departm...ltation/consult_view
Here's what I wrote:
To whom it may concern,
I am writing regarding the news today that 6 Music is going to be closed, in the hope that you reconsider this decision. To be honest I, along with a vast number of other musicians, music industry types and real music fans, are completely shocked and baffled by this news. I wonder if those who made this decision are actually aware of the hugely important role that 6 music plays in fostering and promoting new bands, as well as still playing the likes of the band that I am in. It literally is the radio lifeblood for music outside of the mainstream. Not to denigrate Radio's 1 and 2, but it really is the only station that puts music first, and that's from a punters point of view and not some bloke in a band. Nowhere else can you hear an archived session track from T Rex juxtaposed next to Midlake's latest release. As David Bowie, put it ... it keeps the spirit of John Peel alive.
Please realise the impact and severity of closing this station down. It will be a huge blow for new bands and their labels. It's not enough to 'refocus' Radio's 1 and 2 as 6 music does a very specific thing. What you have with 6 Music is a gem of a radio station, it is doing what no other station in the world does or can possibly do. Remember it is also still relatively young, give it time. You also finally have a fantastic and seemingly settled line up of DJ's. Please get behind it and from what I can gather about it's annual budget of £6m, it surely punches way above it's weight in terms of cultural relevance and importance.
Thank you for considering this.
Ed O'Brien (Radiohead) |
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Prunella Minge |
Apologies for drifting off a bit at a tangent, but the BBC should also find somewhere to repeat all the 'Walter's Weekly' shows - criminally undervalued programmes that mixed the likes of William S Burroughs with Ian Dury and Glen Baxter. That's the kind of imaginative and witty show that someone should be trying to make now. Preferably after luring Vernon Kay out of BH and changing the locks. |
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Chris Retro |
JK (and anyone else) - if you aren't familiar with the under-promoted 6music please give it a go.
I find it absurd the BBC is making out their new mandate is all about "quality not quanitity" and then attempting to wield the axe of THE quality station. It isn't all "John Peel" it is an eclectic and tasteful mix of the new and old - music you won't hear elsewhere especially on any commercial station. |
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Prunella Minge |
Thinking about this earlier today moved me to reach for a dusty volume I have that contains a so-called 'Lunchtime Lecture' about the newly-launched Radio One that Robin Scott gave - to insiders at the Beeb - on 11 October 1967. I picked it off the shelf because I remembered a similar lecture given by David Attenborough about BBC2 that was clear, honest and constructive about what that channel was aiming to achieve. The Scott lecture, alas, just confirmed the suspicion I guess we've all harboured about Radio One - it's never known what it really wants to be, only knowing what it doesn't want (or dares?) to be. I'd quote a passage or two here but none of it IS quotable. It just rambles on, rather apologetically, reassuring people that it won't be like the pirates or American channels or anything else that anyone doesn't want it to be. Maybe it should adopt BBC6 as a belated template? It's about time it tries to be SOMETHING. |
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Angel |
Get rid of the irritant that is Chris Evans. Problem solved. |
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