Jazz on BBC Radio 3

Jazz on BBC Radio 3.

A report on the quality of music programming at the BBC has been made available this week.  For those of us who are interested in jazz, it makes for pitiful reading.

This is what the BBC think about their jazz output on Radio 3 (and remember you will not hear any jazz on any of the other BBC radio channels) :

''Some stakeholders feel jazz is not treated as a priority by Radio 3. We recognise the importance of Radio 3’s support for jazz and world music, but these are not currently the core of Radio 3’s offer, so we would not necessarily expect them to be a regular part of its daytime offer. ''


This statement comes from the BBC Trust Service Review Radio 1, 1Xtra, Radio 2, Radio 3, 6 Music and Asian Network, published March 2015. 

Am I alone in thinking the BBC uses tax payers money to fund hours upon hours of Classical music and gives a vanishing fraction of money to jazz and other so-called minority interests.  This feeble statement indicates that Radio 3 will continue as it is.  Sounds like a kiss of death to me.