Will the #saveasiannetwork campaign welcome honour campaigners?
After the news broke on Friday that BBC Asian Network faces the axe along with 6 music, campaigns were launched to save the stations.
Both are visible on Twitter, whare the #saveasiannetwork campaign has been attracting regular posts from interested parties including the Asian Network’s Bobby Friction and other artists and producers.
Bobby Friction invited all supporters of the network to email him in order to begin mounting a resistance to the rumoured closure.
I have emailed him to offer the support of MixTogether and members of other established organisations.
If people are serious about campaigning to save the Asian Network, they will need the support of reutable organisations, not just the same artists, DJs and producers who have always been with them. If any future administration is to be convinced of the merits of a BBC Asian service, that service will need a more radical social agenda as well as more listeners. Programming aimed at those who have survived disownment / forced marriage / rejection of a non-Asian partner would deliver both.
A rejection of our offer of help with this campaign would give a clear indication of the direction it is going in.
I hope to hear back from the organisers. They need the credibility that that we have to offer.
Update: there are also Facebook campaign groups here and here.
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Ash, I am willing to offer my support through MT if you need.Fingers crossed it will be sorted I heard BBC as been trying to axe Asian network from 2 yrs due to low listernship.But in the end we are BBC lisence payers there is no other radio channel as much focused on asian community.I hope in the event they take up MT’s proposal too