BBC scrap Album Reviews section in new budget cuts
Sad news as BBC’s Album Reviews are set to cease at the end of the month.
The section of BBC’s online music coverage, often highly regarded, will be discontinued from 1 April onwards due to changes in the Beeb’s budgets.
Editor Mike Diver spoke to MusicWeek of the news:
“Unfortunately, budget cuts within BBC Audio and Music mean that there can be no reviews service from the end of this month. These budgets are, naturally, reviewed regularly; and this time the decision was made to cut the reviews service entirely. All writers, save myself, were freelancers. Losing the BBC album reviews is, after the closure of The Stool Pigeon, another disappointing chapter in an ongoing saga of dwindling opportunities for music critics. The landscape is changing, not for the better.”
BBC Album Reviews’ writing roster consisted of a core of influential scribes such as Fraser McAlpine and our very own Jude Clarke.
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