2 posts tagged 6 Music

“We need to look the future, we need to think about how people will be using the BBC in 2013, 2014.”

Oh right so that’s why you’re closing two digital radio stations and halfing the outpout of the BBC website? Because websites and digital radio — they’re not the future? Nah, Mark’s betting that newspapers and analogue radio are about to make a real comeback.

Bollocks.

Mark Thompson has capitulated in the most spectacular fashion today, personally confirming that he hoped to close 6 Music and the Asian Network.

The money saved will go to creating higher quality programming, apparently. So, clever Mark’s solution for producing better content, is to cut one of the few BBC organs that actually makes good content?

Oddly, I’m behind cutting the BBC’s teenage services, Switch and Blast — that have done sweet FA to help a single teenager outside greater London.

Mark Thompson must have nuts the size of apple pips. He’s so comnsumately bitched out to commercial and political pressure that it makes all Greg Dykes’ good work look like it was in vain.

Ever since the Brand, Ross fiasco the BBC has been sliding gradually into that Daily Mail-esque manner of selective reporting and sensationalism.

Here are a list of places your cuts might be better spent:

1.THE FORMULA ONE RIGHTS — who fucking gives a shit.

2. The massive management salaries.

3. The massive management teams.

4. BBC 3.

5. Radio 1.

6. BBC Persia

7. BBC News 24 — no one needs that much news.

8. Cutting any show that involes antiques.