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

[David Bourgoin <david_bourgoin AT yahoo.co.uk>]

Bizzare choice by the BBC if it's true. Six music the only station worth 
listening to. And there is little alternative. Where else will I hear John 
Foxx while eating my breakfast.

David

--- On Fri, 26/2/10, Mark Harris <markharris05 AT gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Harris <markharris05 AT gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] BBC to shut down BBC6 Music
> To: "Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa  
> 1975-1980s)" <typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Friday, 26 February, 2010, 21:30
> 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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