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After 11 years, Shaun Keaveny will be getting a few more hours of sleep with plans afoot for him to leave BBC 6Music‘s Breakfast Show in the new year.

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As any regular listener will have found impossible to miss, BBC 6Music Live is returning for a sixth year next month, and it has now confirmed the line-up.

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Listeners of BBC 6Music have picked Hunky Dory as their favourite David Bowie album.

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BBC 6Music is asking its listeners to pick their favourite David Bowie album as the first anniversary of the star’s death approaches.

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Labour politician Tom Watson, who sees himself as something of a down-with-the-kids MP, has flexed his with-it credentials once again by suggesting BBC 6Music should replace BBC Radio 3 on the UK’s FM radio-waves.

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The BBC‘s audio and music director Tim Davie has backed the BBC’s plans to shutdown 6Music after the BBC Trust hinted the public campaign to save the station may force a rethink.

On Wednesday, BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons said the ‘strong reaction’ against the closure of 6Music could …

The BBC today confirmed the strong rumours that it is set to scrap music station 6Music by 2013.

A report in The Times newspaper last week claimed to have unearthed a report outlining plans to withdraw various sections of the BBC in a downsizing project, and those findings have now …

A leaked report in today’s Times newspaper has claimed the BBC is set to axe it’s radio station 6Music as part of a ‘strategic rethink’ of the public-funded service. The paper claims ‘Mark Thompson, the Director-General, will admit that the corporation, which is funded by the £3.6 billion annual licence …