News - BBC confirms service cuts, 6 Music and Asian Network face the axe

[HEXUS]

The BBC has revealed plans to slash its radio, television and online services as part of a strategic review billed as the biggest shake-up in the corporation's 88-year history.

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[menthel]

I blody hope 6music doesn't go, its one of my favourite stations!

[Gunbuster]

So the BBC wants to cut channels in order to focus on quality and public service rather than ratings and obvious commercial overlap. So they cut quality (6) and public service radio (asian net). However they keep BBC3 and Radio 1 that have obvious commercial overlap.

They will also cut Top Gear magazine, that whilst it isn't niche does bring in money for public service broadcasting.

The words sound great: more quality, less tat, refocusing on public service, savings toward the previous
Reallity: hacking out quality, keeping obvious overlap, removing money generating enterprises that help pay for programming

They aren't doing this for us, they are doing this for Murdock!

[zoomee]

What they should be doing is cutting back on all the high paid executives who continue to leech our TV license fee's, rather than its services.

[Saracen]

What they should be doing is cutting back on all the high paid executives who continue to leech our TV license fee's, rather than its services.

+1 on that.

[shaithis]

and cut back on the appalling, over-priced crap series they seem to be commissioning.......Robin Hood and Merlin spring to mind....

[Breezey]

Scrap Radio 1 - problem solved, who else gets annoyyed listening to Fern cotton talk utter **** about Tweeting & Facebook & Haircuts etc etc really annoys me

[abaxas]

Scrap Radio 1 - problem solved, who else gets annoyyed listening to Fern cotton talk utter **** about Tweeting & Facebook & Haircuts etc etc really annoys me

Then change stations. It's easy!

[Breezey]

Then change stations. It's easy!

I have

[Arthran]

Scrap Radio 1 - problem solved, who else gets annoyyed listening to Fern cotton talk utter **** about Tweeting & Facebook & Haircuts etc etc really annoys me

Chris Moyles the annoying rubbishrubbishrubbishrubbish is one of the highest paid people in the bbc, what a ****ing joke...