The Big British Castle

[Mikey]

I shouldn't have been making inflammatory, sweeping statements on this board when I didn't have time to join the debate properly.

You do know this is the internet, don't you? 

M

[Hoagy]

I'm in the 'if you want it pay for it' camp. I don't like being forced to watch a channel with understanding, I'll love it so much I'd be prepared to pay say the first months council tax bill amount,  for it, or get threatening letters stressing me out.
You don't want adverts? Pay  more per month.

[staticgirl]

interesting article from last september
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/sep/04/bbc-icm-poll-james-murdoch

[COMMANDO FORCES]

1001 people asked, well they didn't me did they

[radiator]

Looks like BBC 6 Music is to be scrapped - literally the only tolerable music station on air imo....

Balls.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8538130.stm

[Proudhuff]

Are you all HAPPY now? You've made Radiator cry?

[Richmond Clements]

Looks like BBC 6 Music is to be scrapped - literally the only tolerable music station on air imo....

Balls.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8538130.stm

It is, to coin a phrase, a fucking disgrace.

Andrew Collings wrote a great blog about it:

http://www.wherediditallgoright.com/BLOG/2010/02/nooooooooooooooooo.html

[Peter Wolf]

The BBC should divert more of its attention to reporting on news like the closing down of the steelworks in Redcar and plenty of other things that are important instead of Tiger fucking Woods.

Pathetic.

[Mike Gloady]

It's official?

Arses.  What a pile of wank.  That's pretty much the only BBC music station I listen to - I'd've binned Radio 5, 1 and 1 extra first.  Or the World Service which nobody in this country (the folks who pay for it, remember) really listens to.

[TordelBack]

 Or the World Service which nobody in this country (the folks who pay for it, remember) really listens to.

Call yourself an Imperialist oppressor?  Bah! 

[Bolt-01]

6music is in my ears, right now, and the world service is great overnight.

Really hope that this news gives 6music more listeners and therefore, a reprieve.

[Colin YNWA]

6music is in my ears, right now, and the world service is great overnight.

Really hope that this news gives 6music more listeners and therefore, a reprieve.

I do really hope this is why the BBC is reporting this speculation to give people a chance to rally around and make an out cry about how ridiculous it is too so dramatically reduce its funding.

I love 6 Music

I love the BBC's web output

There is nothing out there like either of these (I won't comment on the Asian Network but I suspect its a similar case) and this is why we need to fund the BBC as it will create diversity that the commerical media outlets that attack it are incapable of.

DAMN THEIR EYES!!!!

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Pity about 6 Music as the wife loves it.

[vzzbux]

BBC world service was a stalwart when I was in the army overseas and it was all I could pick up.






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[I, Cosh]

A mate who works for the Beeb told me a while back that 6Music and BBC4 were the most likely candidates for the next round of chopping. Or, to put it another way, the two channels I use the most. Get rid of BBC fucking pointless 3.