I first listened to 6 Music on my NTL digital TV box, and on broadband internet.  Had it not been for this station, I would probably not have bought my DAB tuner - it almost justified the £150 purchase on its own.

It is the only station I've listened to that never seems to play an irritating record - although some of the output falls far outside of my music collection, I enjoy being educated!  In fact, if I wanted to hear records I already liked, I'd put a CD on.  6 Music is always interesting, playing records I had forgotten about, or ones I've never heard before.

I was annoyed with the BBC when they dropped Mark Percival's "Electronica" show on Radio Scotland.  Perhaps 6 Music could resurrect Mark Percival's show (or something in the same style), this time giving it the profile and potential audience it deserves?

If the BBC should be judged on its provision of public service broadcasting, then the team responsible for 6 Music should be given the highest praise.  Music lovers pay our license fees, and we deserve quality services like 6 Music.  Long may it continue.

Alistair Brown

P.S. - One possible area for improvement could be to provide an internet stream that rivals DAB in terms of quality - 64kbps seems to be univerally claimed by internet radio stations to be "high quality", and my current 6 Music stream is slushing away at 45kbps, over a fast 600kbps broadband connection.  128kbps is the most common bitrate for DAB stations and for MP3 encoding, so if the internet is to be thought of as a serious digital music medium it needs to compete on quality.