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Background and Format: BBC 6 Music aims to provide alternative music and culture from the 1960s to the present day onwards to a national audience, available on DAB Digital Radio and Online.    Programme Maker/Production Company: BBC Target Audience: Listeners aged between 25 and 44.  Circulation: Source: RAJAR for period ending March 2020. Top tips for PRs: The BBC cannot accept traditional product press releases because the BBC cannot endorse products. To submit music, send CDs to Jeff Smith at 6 Music, BBC Western House, 99 Great Portland Street, London W1W 7NY Some of the presenters of BBC 6 run a blog called Fresh on the Net: www.freshonthenet.co.uk where music can be submitted. The station has a Twitter feed called 6 Music Bot which details which tracks have just been played. The account is: www.twitter.com/BBC6MusicBot Awards: 2017 - ARIAS, Best On-Air Promotion: The 6Music Festival in Glasgow (gold)  2014 - Radio Academy Awards, Best Creative Innovation: Now Playing @6Music (silver) 2014 - Radio Academy Awards, Best Music Feature or Documentary: Adam Buxton on David Bowie (silver) 2014 - Radio Academy Awards, Best Station Imaging (nominated) 2014 - Radio Academy Awards, Best Promotional Campaign: The Sound of Cinema on 6 Music (silver) 2013 - Sony Radio Academy Awards, Best Music Feature or Documentary, 6 Music Celebrates: 50 Years of the Cassette (nominated) 2013 - Sony Radio Academy Awards, Best Station Imaging (nominated) 2013 - Sony Radio Academy Awards, Best Music Programme, Lauren Laverne (nominated) 2013 - Sony Radio Academy Awards, Best Music Programme, Jarvis Cocker’s Sunday Service (nominated) 2012 - Sony Radio Academy Award, Music Broadcaster of the Year, Tom Service (Nominated) 2012 - Sony Radio Academy Award, Music Broadcaster of the Year, Mark Radcliffe (Nominated) 2012 - Sony Radio Academy Awards, Best Entertainment Programme (SilverAward), Adam & Joe 2012 - Sony Radio Academy Awards, UK Station of the Year (GoldAward) Alerts: Gorkana Alert: Monday 14 October 2013 BBC Radio 6 Music has announced it will be making a few changes to the station’s Autumn weekend schedule. From 2 November Huey Morgan will move from Sunday afternoon to Saturday mornings at 10am-1pm, taking over from Edith Bowman whose series will come to an end. Sunday mornings will still be hosted by Cerys Matthews but her show is being extended by 1 hour, seeing the show run from 10am-1pm. The Sunday Special slot will move to 1pm. The hour long show includes one-off guest playlists and documentaries. Guy Garvey’s show will be moving from Sunday 10pm to the earlier time of 2pm. Don Letts will be moving to fill Guy’s show at 10pm and will be running through to 12am. Lauren Laverne will be presenting 6 music live from Monday 14 to Friday 18 October, from Maida Vale at 10am-1pm. Full details of the schedule change at BBC Radio 6 Music can be viewed here  Media Alerts UK Consumer Alert: Monday 13th August 2018 BBC Radio 6 Music has announced c

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