Save BBC 6Music
I’ll keep this brief, it will only take you a minute to read it, please do…
Axing BBC 6Music will save £9million. 6Music provides something that commercial radio does not and can not because it doesn’t have a large enough audience to be commercially viable. That’s part of the point of public service broadcasting.
The BBC plans to keep BBC3, which costs £115million. BBC3 (and BBC4 to an extent) does not actually compliment the range of output, in fact it has detracted from what BBC2 has traditionally provided and unlike 6Music there ARE numerous commercial channels – E4 (and More4), ITV2, UKTV etc. – that cater for the exact same audience (and would do so better without the competition from BBC3). BBC3′s main successes are Little Britain and Gavin and Stacy, which would surely have started out on BBC2 instead anyway (Little Britain was on BBC radio long before BBC3 launched). Its most popular programmes are repeats and spin-offs (and repeats of spin-offs) of EastEnders and Torchwood.
Simply, 6Music does not deserve to be axed while a much heavier strain on the budget and less purposeful operation like BBC3 continues.
I don’t really know what action there is to take over this but a start would be to add your name to the number in the ‘Save BBC 6Music’ Facebook group. Hopefully you can click the link below to join:
www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=278123313911&ref=ts
This was a public service announcement by Andy Beill.
