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6music even popular in Ambridge
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 19 March 2010
When BBC boss Mark ‘Tommo’ Thompson recently announced he was axing his company’s most credible music service 6music, he promised that some of the digital station’s more interesting programmes would be moved to other BBC stations.
We assumed that meant 6 shows would be dropped into graveyard slots on Radio 2, not the untouchable ‘Archers’ slot on BBC Radio 4. But that very idea was put to the test this week when three minutes of the music station was aired in place of Radio 4’s daily soap opera.
Of course, this was more BBC cock-up than BBC strategy, though it can be hard to tell the two apart at times. Yes, a technical error meant that 6music’s output crashed over Radio 4’s early evening news bulletin and the first part of that night’s ‘Archers’ episode. There was speculation on Twitter that pro-6 campaigners on the inside of the Beeb had taken part in some sort of sabotage, but BBC bosses denied that was so, and it does seem to have been, instead, a timely technical error.
A BBC spokesman said: ”Owing to a technical error, Radio 4 transmission was lost for approximately three minutes this evening shortly after 7pm. We are very sorry to listeners for loss of service. Transmission was interrupted for just under two and a half minutes at 19.01. An announcement was made on-air that ‘The Archers’ programme can be heard again at 2pm Friday 19 Mar and is available on iPlayer for the next seven days”.
You can hear the glorious cock-up on the Radio Fail website.
