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6music RIP
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well they did spend over a billion of your money on decorating broadcasting house so you've got to expect cuts
i listened to 6 music once, i'll not shed a tear for it
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Not sure about the rest of you, but 99% of my radio listening is while in the car - I can't tune into 6Music, nor any of the other digital stations - and I'm sure I'm not alone in my lack of digital reception.
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b r I agree - would love to be able to listen to 6Music in the car - it's the only time I ever listen to the radio
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6 music is ideal for those of us who grew up with radio 1 in the mid 80s/early 90s and can't quite face the jump to radio 2 full-time.
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They should be making it more available then not closing it down. Get rid of a few radio 1 djs would help reduce the load not to mention be a favour to humanity.
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Yep anonymouse : too old for Radio 1 + too young for Radio 2 = 6 music.
Of course the big question is who will give Lauren Laverne a home if she's turfed out of there?
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Gutted, R6 is the only reason I've spaffed out on DAB radios!
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What of Adam and Joe??
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very irritated by this - 6 music = my weekend radio
is Digital radio going to die out?
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Gutted, I'm in the camp of Radio one is shite most of the time and play the same tracks far too often and radio 2 is good but 6 music is just better.
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is Digital radio going to die out?
Mine dies whenever it freezes outside, so I haven't had DAB all winter.
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6 Music? Whassat then? Are there other radio stations on the wireless than Radio 4 then?
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I'm surprised 6 music has fewer listeners than 1xtra, still i like both.
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Ditto.
Surly the folk that listen to radio 1 in evenings (zane lowe etc?) would listen to 6music if it was on the normal airwaves. I to bought a DAB for 6music. Hope it is just a proposal and doesn't get carried through.Posted 2 years ago # -
couldn't care less.
Radio 6 was given the oppurtunity to entertain me with good music new and old, and all it seemed to give me was Marc Riley playing tapes of something weird he found at a car-boot sale.
text the nation? - sod off and play something by gomez/johnny cash/the cure/dylan/eurythmics/mgmt/etc./etc.
one day i'll be able to listen to nsbradio / lastfm in my car, and my life will be complete.
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I really do hope that 6Music isn't ended. We have 2 DAB radios in the house and a Pure Highway in the car ....for 6Music.
If it is ended, then I think that Radio 2 needs a very good shake-up. There needs to be a 30-40somethings station, not a station for 20-90somethings. Radcliffe & Maconie are excellent, but there is a lot of dross. The daytime output is awful, Dermott O'Dreary at weekends is terrible and who who actually listens to "Pick of The Pops", "Desmond Carrington", "The Organist Entertains?", "Friday night is Music night", "Big band night" etc?
-Surely the audience for these anachronisms passed away years ago?is Digital radio going to die out?
DAB possibly.Posted 2 years ago # -
I used to listen to it a lot until they went and ruined it for me by giving George bloody Lamb a slot that covers all morning. Couldn't they have put him on R1 with the other c@$p? Sad to see it go.
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George Lamb was the beginning of the end. Why did they introduce a "hilarious" sub-radio 1 style presenter to a station for music fans? It was hardly going to increase listener numbers.
Moving him from weekdays was a good move, but he now spoils 6Music at the weekends...
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why can' they ditch Radio 1Extra.
We've already got Radio 1 and that's pants we certainly don't
need an extra one.Posted 2 years ago # -
radio 1's daytime playlist is indeed bobbins. fortunately i have a bunch of pcs at my disposal at work so i can listen to the evening/nightime/early morning stuff during my 'working' day. good stuff still. between that and spotify i'm well catered for.
i shan't mourn 6. tried it. thought it just wasn't for me.
digital radio will continue for sure. think they're actually planning on binning FM at some point ( 2015? ), though it would free up very little bandwidth.Posted 2 years ago # -
I love the variety of 6 Music just cant stand the DJ's making it all so precious, it is a bit like the NME. Music is great just dont take it so seriously
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They'd save a fortune by binning a certain programme with three overpaid ossers who blow up cars, turn cars into missiles, get to go all over the world to do stupid driving "challenges". That should save enough to keep R6 going.
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Gutted too, only reason I have DAB radios at home and was looking at getting one fitted in the car.
Not sure why 1Xtra would escape the axe when it pulls lower listening figures, or maybe getting rid of two minority stations at once would be too controversial.
I'm amazed that Radio 7 pulls in the audience it does - nearly a million people for 6 hours a week to listen to audiobooks in half-hour chunks?
The whole state of digital radio is a complete mess - arguably promoted too early, too slow to get good coverage everywhere early on, not enough bandwidth so bitrates too low for the audio geeks, and given the different standards in use across europe, car manufacturers have (understandably) been reluctant to offer it. And then there's the DAB+ format which we'll inevitably have to go to, but which will mean replacing the (expensive) radios that people have.
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Not sure why 1Xtra would escape the axe when it pulls lower listening figures, or maybe getting rid of two minority stations at once would be too controversial.
Isn't 1Extra 'urban' whereas 6Music is more 'suburban'?
Just an observation.
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They'd save a fortune by binning a certain programme with three overpaid ossers who blow up cars, turn cars into missiles, get to go all over the world to do stupid driving "challenges". That should save enough to keep R6 going.
Top Gear is one of the most profitable bits of the BBC. Along with other big-budget stuff like Planet Earth, BBC Worldwide makes a fortune selling broadcast rights to other countries - they get far more in than it costs to make. And that's before DVD and merchandise sales.
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Bah! Hope they move Guy Garvey s Sunday night show to another channel.
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I suspect that 6Music is the most listened-to 'non-AM/FM' station on DAB. Without it, DAB seems fairly pointless.
In the home, internet 'radio' is probably now more popular than DAB anyway.
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Pah - it's just more pandering to the lowest common denominator. 6Music is exactly the kind of thing the BBC should be doing, something that wouldn't be commercially viable.
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6music play good tunes and even though there is far too much DJ waffle it is the best of a bad bunch.
What else is there to listen to ?
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Well for one I am a big fan of 6 music and will be gutted by its removal.
Hated George Lamb and Marc Riley but most of the other DJ's work really well. Just another nail in the coffin...
Will now have to get an Internet radio to listen to the likes of JJJ again!Posted 2 years ago # -
Some say that there is an over-reliance on fog-horn noises.
LOL
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Stopped in my tracks when I heard the demise of R6 this morning. Great music, Saturday night will never be the same again, we love Craig Charles's
show. Steve Lamaq is a God. What are we to do?Posted 2 years ago # -
Don't think I'd mourn the loss of radio full stop really, but having not listened to 6music or the asian network I might be missing out. I listened to R1 through the 80s and 90s and 00s, never had a problem with it, but it's only background chaff.
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The soul and funk show with Craig Charles was great to listen to on a saturday afternoon - although I have to admit the ipod dock gets used more in the kitchen of a saturday and sunday than the radio.
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