Would you pay for Six Music?

[Bahnhof Strasse]

If as seems to be the way, the license fee goes, tv and radio stations will become commercial.

If you have ever watched tv or tried to listen to radio in the US ( or Canada, to a lesser extent) you will know how fucking awful it is.

We have Six Music, it’s a hot July Sunday afternoon, they are playing some very mellow French crap I have never heard before. They utterly hit the mood of the moment. Xfm will be playing the same dad-rock playlist they play all week, 24/7, Asolute Radio the same. And so on.

If Six must be commercialised, commercials will kill it. So would you pay a subscription for it?

I won’t for any news sources, get a minor thrill each time I bust a paywall. But think it would be happy to pay for Six, for all it’s imperfections (please stop playing thrash-metal at 1130 on a Tuesday, Mary-Ann), how much I ain’t sure…

 

[editor]

No. I would have in the past but it annoys me far too much these days.

 

[contadino]

How much?

 

[planetgeli]

No. I think the whole network should be full of unhindered pirate stations.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

How much?

“how much I ain’t sure”

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

No. I would have in the past but it annoys me far too much these days.

Why?


Have never heard your band played on any other station. Not that that means owt.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

No. I think the whole network should be full of unhindered pirate stations.

It is, there’s a thing called the internet now grandad and it is full of radio stations.

 

[platinumsage]

No, I’ve never listened to it and don’t listen to any music radio nowadays.

 

[contadino]

“how much I ain’t sure”

Normally when people ask for money they've decided beforehand how much they want. Maybe you need to work up your proposition a bit before pitching the idea.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Normally when people ask for money they've decided beforehand how much they want. Maybe you need to work up your proposition a bit before pitching the idea.

Fuck that shit you bourgeois capitalist pig.

 

[spitfire]

Yes, despite its faults it is the best radio station available to me.

 

[DotCommunist]

I'd agree to pay for it if everyone else did in a kind of scheme where we all pay a small amount but because of our vast numbers pennies become mighty pounds and can be spent in ways that individuals alone cannot match. Not sure what you'd call that.

 

[contadino]

Fuck that shit you bourgeois capitalist pig.

You're not really selling the idea to me.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

You're not really selling the idea to me.

Well, don’t buy it then.

 

[editor]

Why?


Have never heard your band played on any other station. Not that that means owt.

If you look at the long running thread you'll see that BBC6 mainly winds me up and I stopped listening ages ago.
I'm glad that it exists though, I'm glad that they play my band occasionally and I'm glad that people enjoy it, but I still wouldn't pay for a radio station that I barely ever listen to anymore.

 

[MickiQ]

The only radio station we listen to is Smooth, would we pay a subscription for it. Almost certainly not and I can't see myself ever paying for advert free radio, it just doesn't bother me enough.

 

[contadino]

Well, don’t buy it then.

Gotta say it, but advocating turning a state-funded broadcaster into a subscription service, forcing it to produce content based on competition and the market, seems like quite a capitalist idea. So calling me a capitalist just for asking the price is a bit odd.

 

[planetgeli]

It is, there’s a thing called the internet now grandad and it is full of radio stations.

I said the whole network

Did you snaffle some of that cocaine you took to the Catholics yesterday?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I said the whole network

Did you snaffle some of that cocaine you took to the Catholics yesterday?

Bernadette grade ching

Must be laced with 2cb, gives you visions.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The only radio station we listen to is Smooth, would we pay a subscription for it. Almost certainly not and I can't see myself ever paying for advert free radio, it just doesn't bother me enough.

Just whack this on repeat and you’ll be good to go…

 

[Skim]

Pay for Guy Harvey’s Finest Hour? Nope.

 

[killer b]

I would not. Much better music available for free via other online stations (NTS, WFMU, etc etc) - Radio 6 has some decent shows but it's mostly just a retirement plan for faded indie rock singers from the 90s and quite frankly fuck that.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I'd pay for radio 3. All other radio stations are insufferable.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Never listen to the radio, so I wouldn't pay for it.

 

[Orang Utan]

I’m pretty sure I already do

 

[kalidarkone]

Pay for Guy Harvey’s Finest Hour? Nope.

At least they got rid of Liz Kershaw!

 

[editor]

Sometimes they have 'trailers' that go on so fucking long it sounds no different to a commercial station.

 

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Six Music is broadly A Good Thing, but I don't listen to it enough to pay for it.

 

[BassJunkie]

We pay the licence fee, and I think I get most of the value out of that from the radio. Mostly Radio 4 and 6 music. I consider it good value for money.