So, the BBC Trust has completed its previously reported review of Radio 2 and its digital sister station 6music.

The routine review of the two radio services was undertaken amid increasingly vocal criticism from key commercial radio owners that Radio 2 has, in recent years, skewed its programming too much towards twenty and thirty somethings with music- and celebrity-heavy programming. This, some would argue, puts the licence-fee-funded Radio 2 into more direct competition with its commercial rivals, while failing to fulfil the station's public service remits to satisfy the needs of older listeners and fans of niche music genres.

In many ways, the Trust agreed with these arguments, telling Radio 2 bosses to increase the amount of speech-based programming in prime-time, to recruit more music experts over celebrities to present music-based shows, and to keep older listeners in mind. That was a viewpoint welcomed by the boss of commercial radio trade body RadioCentre, Andrew Harrison, who yesterday challenged Radio 2 chiefs to respond to the BBC Trust's criticism.

He told reporters: "It is now down to the BBC to demonstrate that it can raise the bar and start to offer a more genuinely diverse and distinctive service across all parts of the schedule. Comedy, arts, documentaries and specialist music are essential elements of Radio 2's required output, but for too long it has been able to tuck these away at the margins of the schedule in its inexorable pursuit of popularity over public service".

As for 6music, as expected, all those rumours on the net that the Trust might call for the station to be closed proved unfounded. Rather the Beeb's review called on the service to better market itself, to increase brand awareness and grow audience without spending any more money. I wish they would, 6music really is one of the BBC's best kept secrets, and while part of me likes that fact, both the Beeb and the music business should try to better spread the word about how much great music programming there is on there.