The BBC has confirmed plans to shrink its output, in order to save money and allow competition from commercial rivals. As part of this, digital radio station 6Music will be shut down at the end of 2011.

Anyone who has listened to 6music for more than five minutes will know that its programmes and music are nothing like that broadcast by any other BBC or commercial station. No commercial station would have any interest in playing the sort of music that 6music does; 6music fulfills the BBC's charter much more closely than either Radio 1 or Radio 2 do.

What can you do?

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Make a complaint to the BBC. Let the BBC know that you listen to 6Music and that shutting the station down would be doing a disservice to the listeners of the UK.

Contact your MP. Tell your MP that you, as a taxpayer, listen to BBC 6Music and tell them why the station should be kept running. Be polite. Note that written correspondence will be taken more seriously than email. Ask them questions in your letter, to ensure that you get a reply; ask very specific questions so that you don't simply get a form letter from their staffers.

Sign the online petition. But be mindful that writing to the BBC and your local MPs will be much more effective.

Show your support for 6Music

Join the Save BBC6Music group on Facebook

Follow and post to the #saveBBC6Music and #save6music hashtags on Twitter

...and, of course, listen!

Media and News

BBC 6 music has been saved! 7 July 2010

BBC: protests might change our mind about 6Music, The Guardian, 2-Mar-2010

Lily Allen: Why we must save BBC 6 Music, The Guardian, 2-March-2010

John Peel would have loved 6Music. And now it's going, The Independent, 28-Feb-2010

BBC faces revolt over cuts, The Times, 27-Feb-2010

BBC 6 Music: Opposition grows over closure threat, The Guardian, 26-Feb-2010

BBC 6 Music: axing the station would be massive mistake, The Guardian, 26-Feb-2010

Phill Jupitus: Killing BBC 6 Music would be a slap in the face to licence-payers, The Guardian, 26-Feb-2010

Tom Watson (MP): Motion to be tabled to support 6music

BBC to close two radio stations after Tory pressure , The Guardian, 26-Feb-2010

Reaction to rumoured BBC cuts, BBC, 26-Feb-2010

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