stop BBC cuts petition

[AgentDaleCooper]

sign here... (http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_bbc/97.php?cl_taf_sign=6NyAyF8t)

[ArabHibee]

Why?

[McSwanky]

Why?

Have a read of the text in the petition. Do you ever use the BBC website? Do you like Mr Murdoch and his capitalist ideals? Fair enough if you don't want to sign it, but comments like yours above come across as banal and angling for a reaction.

[CropleyWasGod]

See here....

http://www.hibs.net/message/showthread.php?t=176610

[hibsbollah]

Never listened to BBC6 Music before, but cos its on the news so much these days because of the announcement of it being scrapped, I thought i'd listen to it over the weekend. The music is reliably great (first track I heard; the Fall classic 'Free Range', Jarvis Cockers Sunday afternoon show is top notch), I will now start listening to it regularly and joined the Save6Music campaign as well. Maybe this is what the BBC had in mind when they announced scrapping it? :greengrin

[CropleyWasGod]

Never listened to BBC6 Music before, but cos its on the news so much these days because of the announcement of it being scrapped, I thought i'd listen to it over the weekend. The music is reliably great (first track I heard; the Fall classic 'Free Range', Jarvis Cockers Sunday afternoon show is top notch), I will now start listening to it regularly and joined the Save6Music campaign as well. Maybe this is what the BBC had in mind when they announced scrapping it? :greengrin

Call me cynical, but I suspected this from the start. It's as if they have leaked it to see what the public reaction would be.

When you have the 6 Music presenters openly telling listeners how to get involved in saving the station.... which I would have thought would be breaking their contracts.... one wonders about the whole agenda.

Oh, and keep listening..... Shaun Keaveney in the morning, Steve Lamacq in the afternoon, Marc Riley and Tom Robinson in the evenings, and Craig Charles on Saturday evenings.

[hibsbollah]

Call me cynical, but I suspected this from the start. It's as if they have leaked it to see what the public reaction would be.

When you have the 6 Music presenters openly telling listeners how to get involved in saving the station.... which I would have thought would be breaking their contracts.... one wonders about the whole agenda.

Oh, and keep listening..... Shaun Keaveney in the morning, Steve Lamacq in the afternoon, Marc Riley and Tom Robinson in the evenings, and Craig Charles on Saturday evenings.

It would a be a risky strategy, antagonising the unions and alienating your audience just to get the station some publicity, but I suppose stranger things have happened:hmmm:

If the BBC really wanted to scrap something and save money they should look at BBC3. A load of repeats and stuff that the commercial broadcasters already do IMO.

[Leicester Fan]

It would a be a risky strategy, antagonising the unions and alienating your audience just to get the station some publicity, but I suppose stranger things have happened:hmmm:

If the BBC really wanted to scrap something and save money they should look at BBC3. A load of repeats and stuff that the commercial broadcasters already do IMO.

http://www.anorak.co.uk/241063/media/the-bbcs-big-pr-stunt-why-6-music-is-the-new-wispa.html (http://www.anorak.co.uk/241063/media/the-bbcs-big-pr-stunt-why-6-music-is-the-new-wispa.html)

PS I agree with you about BBC3 90% bullshine. The odd good bits could easily be shown on BBC2.

[ArabHibee]

Have a read of the text in the petition. Do you ever use the BBC website? Do you like Mr Murdoch and his capitalist ideals? Fair enough if you don't want to sign it, but comments like yours above come across as banal and angling for a reaction.

FYI I couldn't get the link to open. Yes, maybe I should have stated that in my text. But it does help a lot if people give a rough idea of what it's actually about.

That ok with you?

[CropleyWasGod]

FYI I couldn't get the link to open. Yes, maybe I should have stated that in my text. But it does help a lot if people give a rough idea of what it's actually about.

That ok with you?

Try mine. It has so much more class. :greengrin

[McSwanky]

FYI I couldn't get the link to open. Yes, maybe I should have stated that in my text. But it does help a lot if people give a rough idea of what it's actually about.

That ok with you?

Aye, fine.

[hibsbollah]

http://www.anorak.co.uk/241063/media/the-bbcs-big-pr-stunt-why-6-music-is-the-new-wispa.html (http://www.anorak.co.uk/241063/media/the-bbcs-big-pr-stunt-why-6-music-is-the-new-wispa.html)

PS I agree with you about BBC3 90% bullshine. The odd good bits could easily be shown on BBC2.


Good link. I found this from last week as well
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/mar/02/bbc-protests-change-mind-6music (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/mar/02/bbc-protests-change-mind-6music)
Lyons seems to be admitting here that 'he could change his mind' about closing it if enough people protest.

[marinello59]

BBC6 Music is everything a Public Service Broadcaster should be about and serves a gap in the market for a decent grown up music station. Save BBC6.:soapbox:

Radio 1 on the other hand is dominated by the inane drivel of cloned presenters and is totally indistinguishable from the large number of equally bland commercial stations across the country. So if they want to save money they could sell off Radio 1.:devil:

[Hiber-nation]

BBC6 Music is everything a Public Service Broadcaster should be about and serves a gap in the market for a decent grown up music station. Save BBC6.:soapbox:

Radio 1 on the other hand is dominated by the inane drivel of cloned presenters and is totally indistinguishable from the large number of equally bland commercial stations across the country. So if they want to save money they could sell off Radio 1.:devil:

:agree::agree::agree:

:top marks

[RyeSloan]

BBC6 Music is everything a Public Service Broadcaster should be about and serves a gap in the market for a decent grown up music station. Save BBC6.:soapbox:

Radio 1 on the other hand is dominated by the inane drivel of cloned presenters and is totally indistinguishable from the large number of equally bland commercial stations across the country. So if they want to save money they could sell off Radio 1.:devil:


Too true, Radio 1 is horrendous.

BBC3 is garbage.

However 6Music is certianly filling a need for half decent music to be given air time, they should suprlant that into Radio 1 's national coverage!!

I wont be signing the petition though as the BBC IS bloated and do need to do less, better....the BBC, despite what some people (normally with their own agendas) try to make out is a 'national treasure' as a significant amount of it's output is simply not what a comercial broadcaster would produce but that shouldn't mean that they should simply keep on raising the licence fee to pay for the BBC to do more and more.

[CropleyWasGod]

Too true, Radio 1 is horrendous.

BBC3 is garbage.

However 6Music is certianly filling a need for half decent music to be given air time, they should suprlant that into Radio 1 's national coverage!!
I wont be signing the petition though as the BBC IS bloated and do need to do less, better....the BBC, despite what some people (normally with their own agendas) try to make out is a 'national treasure' as a significant amount of it's output is simply not what a comercial broadcaster would produce but that shouldn't mean that they should simply keep on raising the licence fee to pay for the BBC to do more and more.

Agreed. In policy terms, 6 is what 1 used to be about.

When I were a lad. Jumpers for goalposts. Cardboard box in corridor.