BBC deletes classical music downloads

Podcasts came under scrutiny, with the Trust recommending that audio books and classical music be excluded from the BBC's download services. "There is a potential negative market impact if the BBC allows listeners to build an extensive library of classical music that will serve as a close substitute for commercially available downloads or CDs," it said. The news will be a disappointment to the one million people who downloaded Beethoven's symphonies in a Radio 3 trial last year.
On An Overgrown Path was the first to say back in June 2005 when the Beethoven downloads were launched - the fact remains that a record company, or concert promoter, would give their right arm to have got just a tiny fraction of those 700,000 downloaders as customers. (The figure must surely reach a million before the symphony cycle is complete?) .... Despite high minded talk from senior BBC executives it is hard to see who the winners in this exercise are.
And, yes, even Norman Lebrecht agreed with me about the BBCs frost with the music business
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