BBC 6 Music

scrap radio 1. please. ffs.

http://38degrees.org.uk/campaigns

click on save the bbc to sign petition to stop 50% cuts or whatever it is.

This ISNT to save radio 1, unfortunately radio 1 isn't in the cut list, so if you hate radio 1, which you surely do, you should still sign this petition to save the BBC (if you know what I mean).

Radio 6 is what Radio 1 should be.
That said i have never heard such forgetable drivell this morning on Gidien Coe at breakfast. what an utterly pointless drab playlist. obscure dated indie shit!

Yeah Radio 1 is definitively degenerate. Sign the pet to save 6 music!

Why not get rid of 1Xtra and Radio 7. they serve no purpose!?

Radio 6 is what Radio 1 should be.
That said i have never heard such forgetable drivell this morning on Gidien Coe at breakfast. what an utterly pointless drab playlist. obscure dated indie shit!

And i'm pretty sure he was hating it too. He sounded well grumpy. Noticed he totally cut off a caller to some inane feature who was trying to be funny. I normally really dig his evening show.

His evening show is great, but he doesn't work in the morning. i couldn't even name a tune he played. i usually walk in to work humming something.

I have even started liking George Lamb.. 6 has to stay

i meant 'please scrap radio 1'. not 6music.

but i'm all for the bbc making cuts. just in right places.

^^ I know, i was just stressing that the pet is to save 6 music and other stuff, and doesn't concern radio 1, which will stay regardless.

fact is, radio and 1 extra have a big listenership. Although, I thought the point of the BBC is to serve the remit of diverse programming. Cutting non degenerate stations of lower listenership is contrary to that surely

His evening show is great, but he doesn't work in the morning. i couldn't even name a tune he played. i usually walk in to work humming something.

I have even started liking George Lamb.. 6 has to stay

^ I concur.
and +1 to the 1Xtra comment n all.
Greasy for mayor!

Dan's mail link responded to.
Save it people.

Listening to what mark thompson has to say, he isn't in much doubt that 6 music could vastly improve its listenership with the right promotion. He seems to think that by doing this it would take listeners away from a commercial stations? It would never work, could you imagine a blissful 7 minutes of low followed by WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR,

I would rather have type 2 diabetes then listen to anything other then 6 music, with the exceptions of the john kennedy show on xfm and weekend womans hour on radio 4!

Thompson hasn't the rocks to step into the ring and take on the commercial radio stations, with their shit play lists and insufferable adverts and phone ins. 6 Music has built a great relationship with the music industry.

Radio 2/3/4/5 & 7 are all culture and the arts with some debate, ticks the box. but why isn't good new music classed as culture?

I have sent them an email with words to this effect...only more sweary

Done

*[/I]Hi

I have listened to BBC 6 Music almost every day since it started - if I were to lose it, it would leave a very large hole in my day. Please don't axe 6 Music - it is a lush and beautiful Island of sanity in an ocean of utter mediocrity. Axe endless repeats of Two Pints on BBC3 instead. In fact, just axe BBC3...it's rubbish...honestly.....nobody would even miss it.

Please please please reconsider!

Yours

Etc[I]*

Who buys any car Gatti? sounds like a good deal.

Thompson's acting like Murdoch, sorry, Cameron, is already in power - 'see, we're beating ourselves up, you don't have to'.

6Music gives us new and live music 24/7/365 for about a quarter of the price of Eastenders, and less than Graham Norton and Jonathan Ross. I think the price is comparable to one of the new Portland Stone vending machines in the revamped Broadcasting House. Are any commercial radio stations threatened or compromised by 6Music or the Asian Network? Are they heckers. In fact, they won't even need to consider comparable programming to compete with the BBC. That's 2 big constituencies that won't be catered for at all.

I'm hoping it's a really clever double bluff, the publicity will boost the threatened stations, the public will get back behind the Beeb, and the results of the public consultation will mean the Trust won't axe them.

Who buys any car Gatti? sounds like a good deal.

some cnut who thinks commercial radio adverts are an excuse to rape the ears of innocents

I'm hoping it's a really clever double bluff, the publicity will boost the threatened stations, the public will get back behind the Beeb, and the results of the public consultation will mean the Trust won't axe them.

that would be good. a bit like a "I'm leaving, you don't love me anymore!" -* Waits for adoration*

I'm leaving, you don't love me anymore!

Oh thank fuck for that...

...Has he gone yet?

I'm hoping it's a really clever double bluff, the publicity will boost the threatened stations, the public will get back behind the Beeb, and the results of the public consultation will mean the Trust won't axe them.

crosses fingers... prays to jeebus

not yet.. i am waiting for all the nice shit to be said.

you can start on my smile...

not yet.. i am waiting for all the nice shit to be said.

you can start on my smile...

there ya go

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/mar/02/bbc-cuts-strategic-review

It's most likely that they will cut 6 music now, they've finalised the proposals. Sign the petition for one last chance to stop them getting through

The BBC cuts proposals have just been announced and they're as bad as we feared. The** web site will be cut in half, 6 Music and Asian Network scrapped**. However, they are still just proposals, and that means there's still time for public pressure to win the day.

Nearly 10,000 of us have now signed the petition against BBC cuts. Can you help double that today? Please forward this message to your friends and asking them to sign here:
http://www.38degrees.org.uk/BBC-cuts

To whom it may concern,

I am writing to express my distress and strong objection to the BBC's proposal to close 6Music.

For several years 6music has been the only radio station available in this country to champion and cherish a wide variety of new and old music outside of the commercial mainstream. It is the only radio station that caters for an intelligent, discerning adult market who have grown up with pop culture and continue to engage with and be fascinated by it. This large and constantly growing audience is not catered for by the commercial pop oriented Radio 1, the more mainstream Radio 2 nor any of the ad saturated, playlist restricted independent stations. This audience is the main demographic for album sales and live music attendance in this country and to remove this much loved outlet for a wide variety of otherwise underrepresented music would be potentially damaging for the music industry in this country; particularly so for for the small, independent and new labels, bands, promoters and musicians that 6music (and 6music alone on the BBC) champions.

As a teen interested in pop music I listened to Radio 1 and it's various specialist late night shows including John Peel, Tommy Vance and Andy Kershaw). Like millions of others who care about music, as I grew up and my tastes matured and widened I sought out new and old music that interested me, music that was not part of Radio 1 or any other BBC station's remit.

London's XFM provided well for this need until the late 90s when the station was acquired by Capital and the distinct style-oriented shows were replaced with a generic daytime playlist and much more youth oriented direction.

GLR was a poor substitute for a short time until it too was re-branded as BBC London and became an all-talk station . This left no pop music station aimed at the discerning music fan available in London on the on the BBC otherwise. For nearly 10 years there was no contemporary radio worth listening to this country.

I bought digital radio and stared paying my licence fee specifically to be able to receive 6music and have been grateful for it's existence ever since.

6Music stands alone in current radio programming as an oasis of rare diversity. It is cherished by hundreds of thousands of music fans as a life raft of sanity and variety in our homogenous, lowest common denominator and relentlessly mediocre pop culture. It is entertaining, educational, intelligent and inclusive. Not a day goes by that I don't hear something new or old that I've never heard before and that makes me want to either hear it again, go to a show or buy the record.

Please don't close 6music. It's the only station on the BBC I'm aware of who's audience is not catered for elsewhere. Should 6Music be scrapped will cease to pay my licence fee.

Regards,

Dooks.

Bit long and waffly but the more I think about it the more I realise how much 6Music is a part of my life.

fucking hell Dooks, i feel somewhat unclear with my one line email of abuse.

Been planning that since yesterday. The cunts.

Now to write to my MP!