Comments on: BBC 6 Music axed, BBC director general caves to idiots

By: Donna O'Brien

Donna O'Brien — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:01:52 +0000

This is my email to the strategy review – lets rise up..

Hi,

Thankyou for getting back to me.

I am still astounded by this elephantine mis-judgement. Please listen to
all the feed-back you must of recieved.

6 Music in my opinion brings every colour to the BBCs mission statement to
inform, educate and entertain.

We, as a nation are great at music, it is one of our finest exports. 6 Music
provides a platform from which new music can make the jump to a main stream
audience, much like the show that John Peel presented so successfully and to
widespread and posthumous acclaim. He is now a national treasure which shows
what an appetite the British have for a musically encyclopedic show.

In 6 music we have a whole station committed to fantastically, brand
spanking new music, which brings growth and demand in the music industry at
a time when all industries are struggling. A station which showcases stars
of the future.

I believe there is no other station that fulfills this role.

I defy anyone to listen to say Marc Riley’s show and not find something new
or personally undiscovered. Then maybe listen to Shaun Keaveney and gently
glide out of bed in the morn with a slight smirk on your face. Jarvis
Cockers Sunday Service is a joy. Lauren Laverne, who is one of Britains most
talented presenters, she chooses to be housed at 6 music. Too amny fantastic
shows and presenters to mention. At the weekends, comedians brave the
airwaves and provide grown-up banter to lift an otherwise dull morning.

I find it amazing that something so right, creative, distractive,
informative, amusing and a medium to utilise some of our finest broadcasting
talent is to be scrapped.

Please LISTEN.

I am begging you to reconsider.

Yours sincerely

Donna Lonsdale-O’Brien

By: Craig Grannell

Craig Grannell — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:32:12 +0000

@Merman: The problem is the amount of money saved by axing 6 is tiny – a drop in the ocean. It won’t make a bit of difference regarding ‘quality programming’.

More importantly, all the things Thompson rattles on about being wrong with 1 and 2 are actually being done on 6, the station he’s axing.

By: Linda Wren

Linda Wren — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:48:22 +0000

Britain’s youth keep our world-wide musical reputation alive. BB6C and NME are their only outlets. There, they find genuine music enthusiasts, willing to give them a break, not there for their own gain in the celebrity stakes, but to impart their knowlege and networks to keep music alive. What’s the point of forming a band with no-one to point you to the music or play it to you? Radio 1 certainly won’t; with 4/5 records played per hour or something like that. We will be left with utter rubbish – progames of stupid chat and listener phone-in quiz slots, with music a poor second. A monumentaly stupid, naive and dangerous decision today. I feel totally let down and so sorry for the fantastic presenters such as Gideon and Lamo. As usual, even today, knowing they were losing their jobs, the music still came first. The BBC don’t deserve them. John Peel, what must you be thinking. Pathetic.

By: Merman

Merman — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:08:14 +0000

Have to agree with the update, 6 Music is vital for a lot of acts that wouldn’t get exposure.

I am against the cuts, the only silver lining being that these are not just cuts for balancing the books but to divert money into quality programming. As long as that is achieved, it will make the bitter pill slightly easier to swallow. I dread to think what a Tory Government will have in store for the BBC.

By: Paul Cripps

Paul Cripps — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:54:29 +0000

Anyone want to buy my digital Radio, I wont need it once 6music goes off air