The BBC Trust reviewed the future of Radio 2, the nation’s most popular station, earlier this month, concluding that it must pick up more listeners over the age of 65 and become “more distinctive
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1xtra plays some great music, although less than they used to. It was a bit disappointing when they axed Excalibuh's show (independent hip-hop), because that guy was great; also DJ Flight. Still they have Bailey and Crissy Criss playing hours of solid drum and bass every Wednesday night. :)
On the other hand, 6 Music seems to me like a slightly less shit version of Radio 2. I wouldn't be too disappointed to see the BBC pulling out of middle-of-the-road in general. But that's just me.
I'm most annoyed that they will apparently axe Asian Network because Bobby Friction's Monday-Thursday night show is awesome - really varied and interesting stuff you don't hear other places, and four nights a week? Crazy - and nobody but the BBC would do it.
By the way, I'm not exactly involved with it, but I had the impression that jazz fans were pretty sniffy about Jazz FM in that it quickly concentrated, not surprisingly, on very commercial variants of jazz (yes apparently that's not a contradiction in terms) and jazz-related-but-more-popular music. Kind of like Classic FM, which is basically Radio 3 for idiots who only like music they've already heard in adverts. :)
On the other hand, 6 Music seems to me like a slightly less shit version of Radio 2. I wouldn't be too disappointed to see the BBC pulling out of middle-of-the-road in general. But that's just me.
I'm most annoyed that they will apparently axe Asian Network because Bobby Friction's Monday-Thursday night show is awesome - really varied and interesting stuff you don't hear other places, and four nights a week? Crazy - and nobody but the BBC would do it.
By the way, I'm not exactly involved with it, but I had the impression that jazz fans were pretty sniffy about Jazz FM in that it quickly concentrated, not surprisingly, on very commercial variants of jazz (yes apparently that's not a contradiction in terms) and jazz-related-but-more-popular music. Kind of like Classic FM, which is basically Radio 3 for idiots who only like music they've already heard in adverts. :)
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