It was announced this morning that the BBC Trust has rejected the BBC’s plans to close the digital radio station 6 Music. BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons said that ‘the case for the closure of 6 Music had not been made’.

However, the Trust has accepted plans to close the Asian Network, cut 25% of the online budget and close the teen service Blast!

At the time of the review, 6 Music had an audience of 600,000 but that has now risen to 1 million listeners a week and in the announcement the Trust noted the “significant show of public support” there had been since the closure plan was announced, which was demonstrated in 78% of the online responses to the public consultation focussing on 6 Music.

Simon Raymonde, head of Bella Union label and on the board of the Association of Independent Music, said: "To all those thousands of people who wrote letters, signed petitions and joined protests, to the members of the trust, we must say that today is a victory for common sense or as Cat Stevens more eloquently once said “I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I’m an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after”."

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