Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)

[Mark Harris <markharris05 AT gmail.com>]

Awful news.

Here is the response I got when I complained

Thanks for your e-mail regarding BBC 6 Music.

Last summer, the BBC Trust challenged the BBC to develop a new strategy
to meet the opportunities and the threats of the rapidly changing media
landscape.

Although the details have yet to be agreed – meaning media speculation
is therefore premature – the BBC expects to present its proposals to
the BBC Trust in the near future.

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.

Chairman of the BBC Trust, Sir Michael Lyons, has also issued a
statement about the ongoing BBC Strategy Review which can be found on
the BBC Trust's website at www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/news/press_releases/february/strategy_statement.shtml.

However, we would like to assure you that we've registered your
complaint on our audience log. This is a daily report of audience
feedback that's circulated to many BBC staff, including members of the
BBC Executive Board, channel controllers and other senior managers.

The audience logs are seen as important documents that can help shape decisions about future programming and content.

Thanks again for taking the time to contact us.

Regards

BBC Complaints

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Chuck Warner <chuck AT hyped2death.com> wrote:

News today that the BBC will apparently close down BBC6 Music in March. Some uncertainly about the exact wording but today's Times reports:

The BBC will close two radio stations, shut half its website and cut spending heavily on imported American programmes in an overhaul of services to be announced next month. Mark Thompson, the Director-General, ...will announce the closure of the digital radio stations 6 Music and Asian Network and introduce a cap on spending on broadcast rights for sports events of 8.5 per cent...

Here's the full article:

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article7041944.ece

In the Guardian, Phill Jupitus quite correctly called this "an act of cultural vandalism" and was vastly too polite in pointing out what a blasphemous insult this is to the life, work and memory of John Peel:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/feb/26/bbc-strategic-review

Doug McIntyre from Creeping Bent Organisation suggested, "If you disagree with this insane decision, please take a minute and protest http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/homepage/

Pass the word."

Ugh.

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