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Record industry delegation to meet BBC Trust over 6 plans
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 7 April 2010
A delegation of music industry types is due to meet with BBC Trust chief Michael Lyons next week to bug him rotten about the Corporation’s plans to shut down digital music station 6music.
According to Music Week, BPI chiefs Geoff Taylor and Tony Wadsworth, Sony Music COO Paul Curran, Universal Music CEO David Joseph, EMI Music President Andria Vidler, Warner Bros Vice-Chairman Jeremy Marsh, Beggars Group Chairman Martin Mills and UK Music CEO Feargal Sharkey will all attend the meeting. Boy, can you imagine how tedious this meeting is going to be? No, only joking, go for it guys, the future is in your hands. For a change.
As previously reported, the BBC Trust must approve all of the Beeb management’s cost cutting proposals, including plans to axe BBC 6 and the Asian Network. They are undertaking a consultation on the cuts which will run until late May.
As also previously reported, Culture Minister Ben Bradshaw last week said Lyons had assured him that “this is a genuine consultation, nothing is a foregone conclusion, and the Trust will really listen to what licence fee payers tell them. So I urge you all to respond to that consultation”.
