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)Ric Blaxill, the director of programmes at digital radio station 6Music, yesterday becoming the most senior casualty to date when he resigned.
Two of the rigged competitions revealed yesterday involved shows on 6Music, as did one of the six that came to light in July.
bancroftboy wrote:actually it seems to me what is happening at 6music is exactly what happened at xfm. there just isnt an audience for the more esoteric end of pop music, or if there is its a small one. in the end even the bbc need to have an audience to justify themselves.
its nice to have people playing what they want and all that but this isnt the 70s/80s. people can consume their music from lots of places now. if john peel was starting now he would be listened to by a little group of people on an internet radio station
Lancashire Fusileer wrote:he could be in cock prison by the sound of it Jim.
Lieutenant Woodpigeon wrote:bancroftboy wrote:actually it seems to me what is happening at 6music is exactly what happened at xfm. there just isnt an audience for the more esoteric end of pop music, or if there is its a small one. in the end even the bbc need to have an audience to justify themselves.
its nice to have people playing what they want and all that but this isnt the 70s/80s. people can consume their music from lots of places now. if john peel was starting now he would be listened to by a little group of people on an internet radio station
Blaxhill ruined xfm and was brought into 6Music to do the same thing. He has also succeeded in deflecting some attention from the woman who has managed to flush two perfectly good stations down the toilet; Lesley Douglas.
ceecee wrote:would be good to send me to sleep
Lettuce Spray wrote:Completely. It is a witch hunt at the Beeb at the moment and it is a total disgrace. They are making fools of themselves, and they will create a culture where staff are terrified of making mistakes, and end up scared of their own shadows. One of the things you learn in management is that staff have got to be able to make mistakes and learn from them. If you start sacking everyone who makes a mistake, you will lose some great staff and also will not be able to then attract the best staff either. And what were the mistakes? Its not that they were caught with their hands in the till or snorting coke in the BBC canteen or anything. All they were doing was making what they thought were the best decisions for the programmes they were working on. Errors of judgement of this kind should result in a warning at the most.
The BBC 6Music producer sacked over a faked phone contest is expected to allege at her appeal that executives higher up the management chain knew about the deception.
Sony Award winner Leona McCambridge, who worked on the Liz Kershaw Show, was sacked on Tuesday after admitting in July that production staff had posed as competition winners on prerecorded programmes.
It emerged yesterday that the BBC 6Music director of programmes, Ric Blaxill, had resigned after two further incidences of listener deception on the digital station were uncovered.
Luke Crawley, assistant general secretary of broadcasting union Bectu, which is representing Ms McCambridge, told MediaGuardian.co.uk that faking competition winners was understood to be common practice on the show.
"My member was of the clear understanding that what she was doing was standard practice on the show and expected of a producer, and the knowledge of this was known further up the chain," Mr Crawley said.
He said that when Ms McCambridge first came forward she did not know it would turn into a disciplinary issue.
"In July when Mark Thompson said he needed to know of any other examples of questionable behaviour in production techniques, she ruminated about it and said I think there was some questionable stuff done last year," he said
"Her reward for this is to be sacked, which is quite amazing. She was not under the impression that owning up would put her in the frame. That was what was implied to her in terms of the process.
"It was only latterly that it became a disciplinary issue. She was to understand it was good she had done this and it would be investigated."
He said the fact that Ms McCambridge had been dismissed would mean other BBC staff would think twice about coming forward about incidents in the future.
"This sends the message that whatever you have done, don't tell a soul because the BBC will punish you," he said.
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