The Big British Castle

[Dandontdare]

BBC6 is a station that I don't actually listen to often, but am really glad it exists. There are loads of things that philosophy would apply to actually, many of them provided by the BBC.

[Mike Gloady]

Life without Lauren Laverne, Hughey Morgan, Stuart Maconie?  Unthinkable. 

6 Music and BBC4 are the shining reasons I don't mind paying for the license fee. 

BBC 3, Radio 1 and 1 Extra...... not so much.  Yawn.  BBC3 is already done "better" (by which I mean more successfully) by the godawful E4.  And commercial local radio offers all the pop and rnb stations you can handle (and lots more those over 18 really can't).  I thought the purpose of having a state broadcaster was to do things nobody else is doing.  Seeing as xfm is now the indie version of Capital (and lost all credibility sometime last century) 6 music is the only station doing what it actually does. 

And the World Service through the night?  How about just making Radio 4 a 24 hour thing, then no need for it.

[Colin YNWA]

Apparently BBC3 is a training ground for new talent and very productive for that and so has been said to be safe. Very little on it I enjoy but apparently quite important.

It also keeps the tosh off the channels I do like if I'm feeling elitist!

[Steve Green]

I'll be surprised if 6music does go, it does seem to be a very unpopular move.

I wonder if it's just the BBC presenting a worst case so they can reign back from that and still cut what they really want to, to show a probable new tory government that they're cutting back of their own accord and don't need the government to swing the axe.

[Mike Gloady]

BBC3 - NEW TALENT?

Presumably this is the unfunny morons Corn and Horden?

[Richmond Clements]

I'll be surprised if 6music does go, it does seem to be a very unpopular move.

I wonder if it's just the BBC presenting a worst case so they can reign back from that and still cut what they really want to, to show a probable new tory government that they're cutting back of their own accord and don't need the government to swing the axe.

Yeah- I think (and hope) this is a clever move by the Beeb, leaking this story as a way of demonstrating the support for what they do.

[Mike Gloady]

Like the way Heinz said they were going to stop making the godawful Salad Cream stuff (honestly, in a world where you can get mayonaise or tartare sauce there cannot be a place for this overly sweet impostor).  Good point, here's bloody hoping.

[Proudhuff]

There should be a 'Save Our Six' e-petition to No 10, I'd do it but have no idea where to start  

[Richmond Clements]

http://www.petition.fm/petitions/6musicasiannet/1000/

[radiator]

While 6 Music may not get massive listening figures, the ones it does have are extremely loyal and vocal.

Look at the Adam & Joe Saturday morning show - listeners would regularly send in jingles, songs, posters, models, animations, cartoons etc that they had produced purely for the love of the show. It genuinely felt like a community of like-minded, creative individuals, an audience simply not catered for on any other music station out there. It was also a show that introduced me to a lot of music.

6 Music isn't without it's problems, though - hiring the awful George Lamb was a huge mistake which drove many old fans away, and over the last few years it has become far more mainstream and playlisted. Were it to be saved, I would like to see it regain it's alternative stance and play a far greater variety of music - having a strict playlist always seemed at odds with what they were trying to achieve.

[Jim_Campbell]

Yeah- I think (and hope) this is a clever move by the Beeb, leaking this story as a way of demonstrating the support for what they do.

You're overlooking the fact that this came out via The Times, which is a Murdoch paper and thus no friend of the BBC.

Cheers

Jim

[Richmond Clements]

Yeah- I think (and hope) this is a clever move by the Beeb, leaking this story as a way of demonstrating the support for what they do.

You're overlooking the fact that this came out via The Times, which is a Murdoch paper and thus no friend of the BBC.

Cheers

Jim

True... but if I enter into a massively complex conspiracy theory...

[Jim_Campbell]

True... but if I enter into a massively complex conspiracy theory...

Tinfoil hat, sir?

Cheers!

Jim

[Mike Gloady]

Radiator, I agree wholeheartedly with your post.  It seems very "in" to post a quote without comment in these circumstances, but I think it's lazy and annoying so I'm typing this to say the same thing. 

I CONCUR.

[Proudhuff]

http://www.petition.fm/petitions/6musicasiannet/1000/

Signed! now the rest of you get fell in!