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After years of battling with flagging ratings and increasing competition across other media platforms, it was recently announced that the programme was to be axed. In a letter to the BBC, BPI chairman Peter Jamieson criticised the decision to cancel the show, and suggested the brand could be saved and resurrected.
Jamieson commented: "A strong body of opinion exists within this organisation that there is still potential in the "TOTP" brand. "This is despite the damage done over the past few years - and, in particular, by some of the statements made about the brand over the past month."
The BBC are yet to respond to the approach. After 42 years on-air, the last "Top Of The Pops" is scheduled to go out on July 30. |
