BBC proposed cuts
Mar. 2nd, 2010 12:58 pm![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julietBah, the BBC are proposing cutting 6Music & the Asian Network (among other things). Dammit, 6Music is about the only listenable-to music station going (apart from when George Lamb's on. If they cut George Lamb I'd be cheering them all the way).
Argh. Quote from the report, courtesy of the Guardian:
With an average listener age of 37, the report said, 6 Music "competes head on for a commercially valuable audience". Closing it, and refocusing BBC Radios 1 and 2, would "recognise the lead role that commercial radio plays in serving popular music to 30- to 50-year-old audiences".
Xfm? No ta. Also, why the fuck *shouldn't* the BBC compete for a commercially valuable audience? If they're providing something that people want to listen to, surely that is precisely what they're supposed to be doing? (And then later on they talk about their commitment to "new and live music" -- isn't that something that 6Music is doing well? This seems to be decidedly incoherent!)
I am not at all sure what the argument for closing the Asian Network is. I doubt that it's a good one.
This all sounds like a reaction to the continual banging on from the Murdoch empire about how the BBC are CHEATING and providing FREE stuff (or rather, stuff that we have already paid for) thus meaning that commercial media has to either a) follow suit, or b) actually generate content that people want to pay for. Obviously they can't manage b), so they do a) and whinge about it.
38 Degrees have a petition. This is at the 'proposal' stage so public opinion is in theory being solicited.
Argh. Quote from the report, courtesy of the Guardian:
With an average listener age of 37, the report said, 6 Music "competes head on for a commercially valuable audience". Closing it, and refocusing BBC Radios 1 and 2, would "recognise the lead role that commercial radio plays in serving popular music to 30- to 50-year-old audiences".
Xfm? No ta. Also, why the fuck *shouldn't* the BBC compete for a commercially valuable audience? If they're providing something that people want to listen to, surely that is precisely what they're supposed to be doing? (And then later on they talk about their commitment to "new and live music" -- isn't that something that 6Music is doing well? This seems to be decidedly incoherent!)
I am not at all sure what the argument for closing the Asian Network is. I doubt that it's a good one.
This all sounds like a reaction to the continual banging on from the Murdoch empire about how the BBC are CHEATING and providing FREE stuff (or rather, stuff that we have already paid for) thus meaning that commercial media has to either a) follow suit, or b) actually generate content that people want to pay for. Obviously they can't manage b), so they do a) and whinge about it.
38 Degrees have a petition. This is at the 'proposal' stage so public opinion is in theory being solicited.
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Date: 2010-03-02 02:24 pm (UTC)From what I just heard on The World At One, it seems to be that actually, 'Asian' is a bloody broad brush, and the variation in the community can never be matched by the variation in the broadcasting on a single station, so it's better served by local broadcasting.
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Date: 2010-03-03 08:22 am (UTC)