article_snippet: The BBC’s music radio services have been branded too white by the Corporation’s watchdog.
article_snippet: A review of the six stations by the BBC Trust has raised concerns that the six stations are failing ethnic minority audiences.
article_snippet: Radio 1 was highlighted as having particular difficulties in attracting non-white listeners and the BBC Trust the BBC Trust has demanded the station urgently improve and report on progress in six months.
article_snippet: The comments echo criticisms made in 2001 by then director-general Greg Dyke, who said BBC BBC was ‘hideously white’ and had race relations as poor as the Metropolitan Police.
article_snippet: While yesterday’s report accepts that BBC BBC has improved over recent years, BBC states that, ‘like BBC television, BBC radio serves BAME audiences less well than BBC does white listeners.
article_snippet: Struggling: BBC Radio 2, which has presenters Chris Evans (left) and Jeremy Vine (right), was highlighted as having particular difficulties in attracting non-white listeners by Radio 1 own watchdog .
article_snippet: This is not the first time in recent months that the BBC has been accused of failing ethnic minority au-diences.
article_snippet: Yesterday’s review announced that Radio 1 was cutting back on Radio 1 number of live recordings and Radio 1 coverage of music festivals as part of a cost cutting drive.
article_snippet: Also revealing that there will be ‘a small reduction’ in drama on Radio 3, it praised the stations for being ‘distinctive’ and said being ‘distinctive’ played a ‘wider range’ of music than being ‘distinctive’ commercial rivals.
article_snippet: A the BBC spokesman said: ‘We aim to appeal to listeners from all backgrounds by offering a broad range of high-quality services and programming. '
highlights_snippet: Review of six stations found six stations was failing ethnic minority audiences .
  