Comments on: 6Musing

By: Mr Larrington

Mr Larrington — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:56:40 +0000

One thing I don’t understand is why it costs fifty-one million quid a year to run Radio 3 and only nine million to run 6Music. They’re both, er, people playing records and most musos played on R3 are dead.

By: The BBC Stragetic Review Saga in five links « Max Raymond

The BBC Stragetic Review Saga in five links « Max Raymond — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:11:04 +0000

[...] Anton Vowl at Enemies Of Reason explaining what good may come of this saga using his own ‘tortured analogy’. [...]

By: londonjustin

londonjustin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:35:25 +0000

I love The Wild Geese.

That doesn’t actually mean it’s any good however.

By: Joe Scaramanga

Joe Scaramanga — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:42:09 +0000

Like you said, it comes down to taste.

If they said they were going to scrap cricket coverage on LW, or Newsnight, there would be uproar.

It tries, and largely succeeds, in catering for as many tastes as possible.

And Wild geese is a supremely bad movie, and therefore marvellous for watching drunk, as most of the cast were when they amde it.

By: Dirty Expat

Dirty Expat — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:20:22 +0000

As one of those dirty expats, living in a foreign country yet still following British news and loving the BBC, I almost wish the BBC would charge foreigners for access to iPlayer. I would be more than happy to pay it, and I know others would to. Surely they could also make a bit of profit off it? Not too sure about legal implications, but we can work through that, can’t we Auntie?

By: George Allwell

George Allwell — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:44:09 +0000

James, great point. Anton, another great post, with lots of correct, and worrying points. They should just say ‘fuck-off’ you do what you do and we will do what we do. I back our standards, choices and principles (public service and all that…).

I, too, enjoyed the radio 4 coverage of the cricket, and have done since I was 9. Not only would I be mightily pissed off, I would considering Guy Fawkian actions.

I do suspect, however, that Radio 4, and all that goes with it, would be kept till the bitter end. ‘They’ love it, the NIMBY’S, and would be disgusted if it changed it output or standards. That is the crux, ‘they’ love the BBC, so long as it transmits what ‘they’ want it to. The just don’t get the ‘principles’, that it should broadcast ‘for all’, and why should ‘they’ pay for anyone else. Bit like health, benefits, foreign aid, asylum seekers, social services, to name but a few.

I hate ‘they’, but I hope, after the next election, that we still have a broadcasting system to be proud of, like I am, and one which provides for all. No matter if we ‘have to’ endure some of the tripe that comes with it.

The alternative is programmes riddled with adverts, and subject to editorial profiteering.

By: How about a bit of solidarity for the BBC if not for 6 Music? - Chicken Yoghurt

How about a bit of solidarity for the BBC if not for 6 Music? - Chicken Yoghurt — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:29:29 +0000

[...] in most things, one finds oneself in agreement with Anton Vowl… I’ve said before, personally 6Music never really troubles me at all, and I can’t [...]

By: Brennig

Brennig — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:11:28 +0000

I was told yesterday by a reliable industry person that the BBC wanted to cut loose the television station BBC 3 and save everything else. But the senior management projected such a fight from the unions (more staff are needed to operate a TV station than two radio stations), that the management opted for the easier path. It’s an interesting scenario.

By: James

James — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:21:27 +0000

God, I wish the BBC would grow a pair too. Just once, I’d love them to respond to one of the Daily Mail’s increasingly-desperate attacks with “How about you let us carry on with our globally-respected news coverage, and you go and pay a few more paparazzo for upskirt shots of 16 year-old actresses? Run along, there’s a good boy”