BBC confirms cuts to radio, online services
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I'm not sure if you're saying this should happen, or agreeing that it's right it does. If the former, read the latter.
FFS get rid of Radio1 not Radio 6.
This.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/playlist/index.shtml
I would imagine the south-asian pop and rock includes chinese and east-asian music, but I'm not a listener so couldn't say for sure, or equally likely it could be taking the british common usage of asian when referring to a culture and just mean west-asian.
Interesting that when we refer to asians we generally mean the side closest to us and the same goes for the US.
yes, sacrifice the 2nd most popular station in the country... great idea. there are plenty of more suitable options for saving the actually quite pitiful budget of radio 6. There has to be more to it than is coming out.
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I reckon it's just because 6 is at the end of the numbers. If they scrap one in the middle they either have a gap or have to renumber everything.
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They do. The BBC sells loads of the programs abroad or else puts them on a channel full of adverts. For example most of the nature documentaries are sold at a profit (and as we all know BBC nature documentaries are the best in the world, patly because they are the only ones that can afford to spend 5 years making them, ala blue planet and planet earth), top gear is viewed by something stupid like 300m people and mutliple other programs such as Dr Who and *gupl* even Eastenders. I'd guess a lot of these programs may actually make a profit in the long term due to this.
BBC also has fingers in a lot of film pies, I think March of the Penguins was partly funded by them as well as at least one massive film out at the cinemas at the moment (possibly Holmes). They also fund the likes of Band of Brothers and possibly the new Pacific one coming out in the near future.
I agree about Chris Moyles. Get rid of most of the radio presenters and just play music instead. At the moment there is not much reason to choose Radio 1 over the other commecial radio stations because they do just as much talking as the commercial stations do adverts.
That would save masses of money and make radio better.
You are of course aware that the BBC website outside of the UK has it's costs covered by the adverts, as why should the LF payers in the UK be paying for non LF payers in other countries
I agree they should get rid of her, other than the fact she is pleasing on the eye she should not be reading the news. But thats what the beeb does, out with the old and in with the new. As soon as a women becoomes old in the tooth they get rid of them.
I've seen 3 films just this year so far that opened with a BBC credit, damned if I can remember which ones though
A google would reveal:
The Men who stare at goats
Edge of Darkness
a trailer for "An Education"
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Shame as 6 Music is rather good too. I just think that not enough people know what sort of thing it plays, due to BBC not really advertising its existence enough.
I just think that not enough people know what sort of thing it plays, due to BBC not really advertising its existence enough.They don't
It's basically mostly pop music from India and Pakistan in a nutshell, there's probably other regions represented but they're generally pushed to the off-peak hours. It's not a sad thing for it to go at all, It's been broadcast on the MW frequencies which gives poor sound quality, and over the past few years, the general quality of presenters and music has been declining steadily. This has given the local 'Asian' radio stations a much needed boost as a lot of them broadcast on the FM spectrum.
Being Asian, and listening to the Asian Network, I'm not really sad to see it go, there's a few presenters who are entertaining and I would actually go out of my way to listen to, but I'm sure they'll find a better home if and when the Asian Network closes.
To be honest. Other than Top Gear and the possibility of maybe a few other shows the BBC is pap.
I'd like to see what this 600 MILLION will go towards, best be some **** hot programs. I'm talking super high standards here, like the Wireless Blowjob machine level of high standard.
Otherwise I call BS
Shame as 6 Music is rather good too.
See that was it - it got very little/no marketing so despite it being and incredible satation enjoyed by everyone who listened to it - not enough knew of its existance/what it played so figures were low.
Agreed - I knew things must have been bad when Adam & Joe suggested they were going to be taking a break from the station
thing that annoys me most about all this is the ''we want quality over quantity'' statement. WTF ? R1 is just full of shows that are all near enough the same and that are all hosted by hugely overpaid presenters. R6 is full of quality shows that cover many genres. often by cheap or volunteering guest presenters
Um, I've found ABC's budget at AUD$1.13 Billion a year?