On Mar 2, 11:19 am, "Kevin M." <[email protected]> wrote: > Gone is BBC Radio 6 (a.k.a. the channel that plays music). > Gone are the high-end bids for foreign (a.k.a. US produced) shows and sports. > Supposedly, the money is going into journalism budgets, and to produce > more dramas and comedies in-house. > > http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100302/tts-uk-bbc-strategy-ca02f96.html
6Music was a digital channel with a AAA format and, AFAIK, the only AAA station in the UK (unless Adam wants to give Absolute the crown). It had a specific remit to feature the thousand of hours of live performance recordings in the Beeb archives, both concert and studio (including John Peel's "Peel Sessions"), that were especially recorded in the 60s, 70s and 80s, when there was a "needle time" limit on playing records (and I assume CDs made irrelevant, since CDs aren't "gramophone recordings"). The other network that's supposedly going is Asia Network, which was a 24/7 net for Asian listeners (in English) which was 24/7 on digital and a low-powered AM in London and in weekend blocks on the various BBC local stations. It also seems to me that the Beeb's U.S. series acquisitions were for BBC2 and the satellite culture channel BBC4--by and large, U.S. series aren't the ratings magnets over there compared with back when "Dallas" and "DIN-asty" were the top ratings-getters. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
