The radio station 6 Music, which the BBC had pledged to close, will be reprieved today after a huge public campaign to save it.
The BBC Trust, the corporation’s governing body, will say that the alternative music station’s fate should not be decided until bigger questions over the future of all the BBC’s digital radio services have been resolved. The view will be expressed in the trust’s interim response to a strategic review of the broadcaster’s activities.
As Mark Thompson, the Director-General, separately delivers the corporation’s annual report, the trust will announce a sweeping review of the digital radio market.
Sir Michael Lyons, the chairman, will say that there is still uncertainty over the national switchover to DAB, which the Government expects to begin in