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There's a rugged determination amongst BBC management never to be proved wrong. So the floating of Radio 2Extra in The Times is back to the bad old days of compromise. The suggestion is "6Music" content would run in parallel with Radio 2 during the day - say 6am to 6pm, and Radio 2 and 6Music would share programming in the evening (and probably even more at weekends). This is not dissimilar to the dark days of Radio 1, when it would switch off at 7pm, and the transmitters would carry Radio 2 until John Peel re-appeared at 10pm, all to make some marginal (and, I'll bet, notional) saving.

If they had intended this all along (as apparently they did with plans to morph 7 into 4 Extra) why not say so in "Putting Quality First" ? If this is a real plan, can we have some transparency about the costs, and the marginal savings ? And an explanation of how making Radio 2 stronger (presumably that's the plan) is going to appeal to its commercial opponents ?