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The BBC is set to close the unpopular BBC 6 Music, as part of sweeping changes to TV and radio services which are to be announced next month. The Times is also reporting that the BBC Trust has acknowledged that "it must pick up more listeners over the age of 65 and become more distinctive", with the review ordering "Bob Shennan, the station controller, to air more jazz".
Our article from 2008 (below) highlighted some of the failings of 6 Music - we are not surprised this decision has been made. It also seems that the message of supporters of the Campaign For Real Music is getting through at last, as we have been lobbying the BBC for several years regarding its music policy, which overlooks many of us entirely. Hopefully this is set to change soon, and we will see more dance bands, light music and American popular song featured on BBC radio.
These are interesting times for those of us who care passionately about music and radio, chantix for sale, Cheapest chantix price, and the cause of real music. Now is the time to keep up the momentum and ensure that the BBC does what we know it can do better than any other - provide the very best quality music programming for a discerning audience.
We look forward to hearing your views on this important decision, chantix without a prescription. Chantix medicine, Radiocafe
February 26 2010
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE FROM 2008
According to RAJAR (the people who work out how many people are listening to what stations), BBC 6 Music forms a one fifth of one per cent share of the radio we listen to. To put that in a bit more perspective, chantix online, Cheapest chantix, as of June '07, BBC Radio 2 is listened to about 63 times more than BBC 6 Music, chantix internet. Cheap chantix online, Why does BBC’s fellow digital-only station BBC7, which provides re-runs of old comedies, buy chantix online cheap, Order chantix no rx, get almost twice as many listeners as 6 Music?
What in fact does BBC 6 Music do?
Okay, so the station has won a few awards, real chantix without prescription, Chantix vendors, and this article is not here to knock the quality of its programming or presenters (although if you have any particular thoughts, do let us know). As the first national music radio station to be launched by the BBC in 32 years, buy chantix from canada, Cheapest generic chantix online, albeit only through digital sources, the question we ask is what does it provide that isn’t already catered for elsewhere?
As Radio 2 goes from strength to strength, buy chantix online australia, Cheap chantix in usa, if you care about figures, which the BBC clearly does, chantix malaysia, Cost chantix, there are many of us out here who are starting to suspect we may have been subject to a rather sophisticated confidence trick.
You see, in the old days it was easy to work out what each of the stations did. Radio 1 was clearly a pop music station, aimed towards the youth market. The station gave us poptastic DJs, roadshows, a production line of presenters for Top of the Pops and a daily mix of the latest chart music, plus some more focused music shows in the evenings. Radio 3 provided the classical music, Radio 4 all the talk, which left Radio 2 to serve up things such as comedy, easy listening, light music, big band, dance bands, country, folk and other specialist music, buy chantix without prescription.
But over the years, find chantix no prescription required, Chantix in us, as listening figures became the priority, those who grew up listening to Radio 1 - and many of its presenters - have long since migrated to Radio 2. The figures for Radio 1 may have declined, cost of chantix, Order cheap chantix online, but the BBC’s statisticians are happy, since the figures for Radio 2 have gradually increased, buy chantix on internet, Order chantix from canada, as have the number of “pat on the back” awards from the industry to itself.
But here’s the trick. If, buying chantix, Buy generic chantix, say, I was 15 in 1985, chantix purchase, Generic chantix, and therefore likely to be one of the BBC’s Radio 1 demographic back then, the BBC now caters for me as I approach the age of 40, cheap chantix without prescription, Order discount chantix online, by serving up a Radio 2 which plays the kind of music which Peter Powell and DLT spun on Radio 1 back in the 80s. But Radio 2 has gone further, to also try and attract today’s 20-somethings, chantix online sales, Cheapest chantix online, and it has further increased the youth appeal. This means disgruntled Radio 1 listeners can also join the new, younger, cheap chantix tablets, Buy cheap chantix, BBC Radio 2 big happy family.
So here is the problem, chantix pharmacy online. Order discount chantix, What if I was approaching 40 back in the 1980s, was a Radio 2 listener then, chantix overnight shipping, Chantix canada, and am now entering my pension years? What if I grew up with the Light Programme, and am now well into retirement? Or what if I just happened to like easy listening, find chantix on internet, Chantix in malaysia, light music, big band, dance bands, country, folk and other specialist music, irrespective of my age? What if I am a teenager who likes Vic Damone and Julie London and am not into the Sugababes and Atomic Kitten. Buy chantix without prescription, Let’s take a closer look, then, at what the BBC offers for this group of listeners. Say I want to listen to some easy listening, perhaps the classic vocalists of the 1950s and 1960s. Radio 2 has David Jacobs from 11-midnight on a Sunday and… is that it? Light music - let’s take a look… where is it? I won’t find any at all. Big bands and dance bands? About an hour a week across all stations. And the same story for other specialist music too. Even soul music gets only a handful of hours across the BBC networks.
I wonder if those who control the stations are perhaps fans of rock and pop? Because BBC Radio 2 plays this genre for the vast majority of the time, and BBC 6 Music is clearly a rock and pop station with a couple of token gestures to other types of music. Which seems strange, given that the majority of commercial stations out there, national and digital, all seem to play… rock and pop.
What about those of us who do not want rock and pop all the time? What about those of us who quite liked Radio 2 as it used to be, but accept and appreciate that times move on and the station needs to change, but in a digital age of plenty feel that we are being offered nothing.
If you try writing to the BBC to tell them this, as hundreds of us have done, they are delighted to receive your comments and then tell you about all the wonderful things that are coming up on BBC Radio 2 and the BBC’s new digital stations. So when you ask them for more light music, classic vocalists and so on, the best you are likely to achieve is more rock and pop.
Come on, BBC, you can do better than this. You are the broadcaster that created the BBC Radio Orchestra, the BBC Big Band and the BBC Concert Orchestra. You introduced us to fantastic presenters such as Alan Dell, Steve Race and Benny Green. You gave us the likes of John Dunn and Ray Moore each and every day. Plus you allowed those of us who don’t want to listen to rock and pop all the time a mix of light and easy music which is all but extinct from your current programming.
We are not saying you should replace BBC 6 Music with something for us, as we know what it is like to have something we enjoy taken away, and this would be unfair to others. All we are asking for is to be given something to replace what we have lost.
Just a small, simple digital station, playing a mix of light and easy music, with a smattering of vocalists such as Bennett and Sinatra, perhaps some dance bands and big bands, served up by proper broadcasters with years of experience in radio. We don’t even mind if you recycle some shows of old, as you have done so well with BBC 7. The USA will show you how, too, just take a quick look at the immensely popular Music of Your Life network.
And, when you do, there are thousands of us out here with nothing to listen to who will be more than happy to help improve your listening statistics.
Radiocafe
January 2008.
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