The battle for the 'soul' of BBC 6 Music as thousands call for U-turn on schedule shake-up

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The battle for the 'soul' of BBC 6 Music as thousands call for U-turn on schedule shake-up
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📻 BBC bosses face a new battle for the “soul” of 6 Music after thousands of listeners demanded a U-turn over a schedule shake-up Managers are facing a backlash over a decision to slash the hours that longstanding DJs Gideon Coe and Marc Riley present

Peter Guy, editor of the leading Liverpool-based music website Getintothis, wrote: “Feels like much loved 6 Music is spiralling into the abyss. Cutting two of its best two DJ slots into one is truly rubbish.” He called it “another poor BBC decision. Hard to understand.”schedule shakeup. Their reliable personal curation is exactly what the station should be about. Yet again the BBC breaks and shrinks stuff that works best.

With its original audience now in their 50s and older, 6 Music needs to bring in younger listeners who are less in thrall to “indie guitar rock” but still want to hear cutting-edge sounds. However one listener complained that “it’s no longer the radio station I’ve loved since its beginning, and the one that we listeners fought to save” – referring to the campaign which successfully rescued 6 Music in 2010, doubling its audience, after BBC bosses announced that it would be axed.The pairing of Ravenscroft and Grant, along with Riley and Coe “means even more music will be found and shared with our audience, giving a new sound to 6 Music at night.

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