Why close 6Music, to preserve the quality of BBC Three? Bring on the backlash.
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BBC DG – Snog, marry, avoid?
The day the music died?
Weak-willed BBC management happy to let two radio stations die, for what purpose?
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Better night for Baftas
Although hardly a victory for the “British film industry”, at least the Bafta Academy did the right thing by snubbing Avator in favour of The Hurt Locker’s more cerebral thrills. It’s a decision likely be at odds with the Oscars which should end the myth that the Baftas are a reliable guide to the main event. What was...
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Trust offers no solutions
After 9 months in gestation, the BBC Trust’s long-awaited reported into Radio 2 and 6 Music will have been music to the ears of RadioCentre, the body representing commercial radio. Neatly distilling RadioCentre’s submission, Radio 2 must become less popular by appealing to the over-65s while 6 Music needs to increase its audience but...
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Update: It’s good to talk…
Watching Gordon Brown welling up on Piers Morgan tonight (Feb 14), I wanted to bring back Adam's pre-interview comment to the front page.
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Jedward…lose again
Good to see Owl City keeping Jedward off the number one slot in another web victory versus CowellPop. Adam Young, the Minnesotan behind Owl City, is a genuine bedroom music discovery, who prompted an industry feeding frenzy after posting tracks on MySpace – it might be a disappointment on the News Corp bottom line...
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The Joy of Six
Ever wondered what a mash-up between La Roux and Heaven 17 sounds like? BBC 6 Music brought the acts together for an entertaining collaboration. It’s a good example of the digital station fulfilling its remit by illustrating the connections between different musical generations. But there are already rumblings that the station, which has 620,000...
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Isaacs begat Abraham
“From my background, Abraham came before Isaac,” joked Jeremy Isaacs in an entertaining chat on the R4 Media Show about the arrival of David Abraham, Channel 4′s new chief executive, before laying into the Andy Duncan regime.
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