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The fat lady gets ready to sing for Top of the Pops
By Adam Sherwin, Media Correspondent
IT STARTED with the Rolling Stones, but 42 years later Top of the Pops is finally conceding defeat, having failed to outlast its first teen idols. At its peak, the chart show attracted 16 million viewers to BBC One and prompted rows in family homes over the gender orientation and musical merit of its performers. But the internet, 24-hour music channels and the decline of the pop single has condemned it to oblivion.
Two years after its move to BBC Two, and with viewing figures barely reaching 1 million, the ailing show will be put to sleep after the broadcast of edition 2,204 on July 30.
The show is one of the BBC’s most successful international brands, seen in 112 countries, with local versions made in the Middle East and elsewhere. But a BBC strategy review found that, “in a rapidly changing musical landscape, Top of the Pops no longer occupies the central role it once did”.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,26909-2235590,00.html
My teen years would have not been complete without my Thursday TOTP. It used to come on just before Monty Python (First runs)
By Adam Sherwin, Media Correspondent
IT STARTED with the Rolling Stones, but 42 years later Top of the Pops is finally conceding defeat, having failed to outlast its first teen idols. At its peak, the chart show attracted 16 million viewers to BBC One and prompted rows in family homes over the gender orientation and musical merit of its performers. But the internet, 24-hour music channels and the decline of the pop single has condemned it to oblivion.
Two years after its move to BBC Two, and with viewing figures barely reaching 1 million, the ailing show will be put to sleep after the broadcast of edition 2,204 on July 30.
The show is one of the BBC’s most successful international brands, seen in 112 countries, with local versions made in the Middle East and elsewhere. But a BBC strategy review found that, “in a rapidly changing musical landscape, Top of the Pops no longer occupies the central role it once did”.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,26909-2235590,00.html
My teen years would have not been complete without my Thursday TOTP. It used to come on just before Monty Python (First runs)