Not sure whether anyone already mentioned this, but this did make me laugh…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/mar/01/ed-vaizey-bbc-6-music
…especially the bit about him becoming an overnight fan. Do you think the swing in public opinion may perhaps have been a factor.
I can only agree with the comments of most of the folk on here – the only reason we bought into DAB was to listen to 6 Music – there really is nothing else on air like it. It's on constantly in our house. Sure the daytime programming can be a bit repetitive, but the evening and weekend shows (Marc Riley, Jarv, Guy Garvey, Stuart Maconie, Craig Charles etc are brilliant…. Excepting of course George Lamb, who has achieved the dubious distinction of being more of an ar$e than Tim Westwood and should be packed off to Radio 1 without delay.
I wrote off a complaint to the BBC last week (the first time I've done anything like that), and just got a standard reply back :
At the core of the strategy will be a renewed commitment to serving the British public with programmes and services of the highest quality. Audiences admire and value the BBC's digital services and the BBC will remain fully committed to online and to digital television and radio.
But the new strategy will lay out ways of focusing and concentrating licence fee investment on areas and services which are distinctive and best fulfil the BBC's public purposes, which meet the expectations of licence-payers but also leave plenty of space for commercial media providers…
distinctive and best fulfil the BBC's public purposes
– as opposed to Radio 1 for example??