By Sarah Smithon Friday, 23 Jun 2006 Long-running BBC music show Top of the Pops is to stop broadcasting at the end of next month.
The show will pop its clogs on 30th July, it emerged yesterday, because it cannot compete with music channels that show the latest music videos – pop, r'n'b, and rock - around the clock.
The show began in 1964 and featured an impressive line-up – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Dusty Springfield – as well as host Jimmy Savile.
Subsequent presenters included Tony Blackburn, Noel Edmonds, Bruno Brookes and John Peel, while other big-name acts to make an appearance were Queen, U2, Oasis and Nirvana.
But websites such as Myspace and other digital evolutions have impacted the programme, making the show that could once make or break a band an irrelevance.
"The music industry is right at the forefront of the whole digital age," a Top of the Pops spokesman told BBC News. "The way music is accessed and consumed is so fast-moving that people don't need to rely on that weekly TV show."
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