BBC remains defiant over its commitment to music on TV: in the third in a series of features on the BBC Charter Review, MW looks at how music is covered on TV, from Fame Academy to Glastonbury.(TV)

Amid the hundreds of pages of BBC Charter Review submissions from the music industry, barely a handful deal specifically with the issue of television. Inevitable, perhaps, given the sheer volume of music output broadcast to radio.

But TV remains a crucial part of the debate surrounding the future of the BBC. Thanks largely--although by no means entirely--to its new digital stations, the Beeb broadcasts more than 1,000 hours of music coverage each year.

And, although there is no format music policy in place to challenge, the charter review process is forcing the BBC to face up to questions that the music industry has been asking for a number of years. ...