0

Do you support saving 6 music? Ashely Norris has written a skeptical blog recently asking whether the 6 music cuts are a Wispa campaign - as such things shall all become known in the future. As the BBC "needs to be seen to be making cuts" threatening to remove public service 6 Music which costs £6m, rather than say, reduce salaries across the board (twice Anne Robinson's salary), gives an impression of removing funding whilst creating public revolt. Well, twitter revolt.
There's the notion that the BBC don't have the social media know-how to orchestrate this or come up with the idea, but it's certainly curious. With 50,000 supporters on Facebook before the campaign fully began, it's done very successfully and if, as Sir Michael Lyons, has suggested the station is saved then it will be remembered as having listened to the audience. Not only this, but there should be a significant ratings increase.
It's certainly prompted a lot of interest and the Guardian's today touting a large infographic of how the BBC spends its money. Notably £123 million is spent collecting license fees. Perhaps with less paperwork and numerous threatening letters we could all save 6 Music.
Find the inforgraphic here.
7cede35b-67c6-44f1-a6df-2318d5abed89|0|.0