[access-uk] Re: Off topic - Death of OneWord Radio and Core
- From: "Iain Lackie" <ilackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:45:29 -0000
Not as heavy as this list.
Iain
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jackie Cairns" <cairnsplace@xxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 4:44 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Off topic - Death of OneWord Radio and Core
Thanks Iain. Is it heavy traffic do you know?
Jackie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Iain Lackie" <ilackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 4:31 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Off topic - Death of OneWord Radio and Core
> Well, there is the UK Radio List. To join, send the usual message to
> uk-radio-listeners-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Iain
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jackie Cairns" <cairnsplace@xxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 3:31 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Off topic - Death of OneWord Radio and Core
>
>
> Ray, I think DAB is becoming a farce to be honest. I primarily use it for
> Five Live and Five Live Sports Extra. I used to listen to Core regularly
> as
> well. I don't know why they don't just put Capital FM on there and be
> done
> with it. Whenever I go home, it's the first thing I do on the train
> whenever it comes into focus, and when I get to the family, I swap their
> radio station over to it while I'm there.
>
> Yeah, what lists are there to yap about radio? But just to keep this ever
> so slightly techie in an accessible sense, the Sonus is going to say Beat
> 106, One Word and Core because it's tagged, one of the reasons why I
> parted
> company with mine (smile).
>
> Jackie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 3:18 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Off topic - Death of OneWord Radio and Core
>
>
>> Yes Jackie! In case I didn't make it clear, the Bird Song is very
>> popular, though not sure if it attracts more than the 150,000
>> listeners audience research supposedly identified for OneWord.
>>
>> I wish there were a more appropriate place to discuss this, but
>> briefly I think the business model for a station like OneWord was
>> always very flawed. I wish in a rather vague way, was room for a more
>> socially oriented business, or businesses, maybe sharing a channel
>> with each having, say, four or six hour slots, maybe repeated on some
>> sort of cycle. I'd be tempted to try such a discussion on Vi-gen, but
>> some there are happier talking about, say, how many guide dogs you can
>> stuff in a taxi!
>>
>> Final thought.. Does anyone know how active the one or two radio
>> lists mentioned on Whitestick are?
>>
>> From Ray
>> I can be contacted off-list at:
>> mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Jackie Cairns
>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Off topic - Death of OneWord Radio and Core
>>
>>
>> Ray, give me the birdsong any day. It's beautiful.
>>
>> Jackie
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [access-uk] Off topic - Death of OneWord Radio and Core
>>
>>
>>> Maybe few if any bother with these dab stations, but OneWord and
>> Core
>>> are no more. You'll hear bird song on the former OneWord Channel -
>>> which apparantly is much missed by some.
>>>
>>> Whether OneWord will be missed not sure, but it was initially a good
>>> effort. Rumour has it that Channel 4 Radio, which was the majority
>>> share holder, was playing somewaht unethical games by using the
>>> acquisition of OneWord to lever its way into the Award of new DAB
>>> channels comingsoon.
>>>
>>> A press release that mentions none of that is at:
>>>
>>> http://www.ukdigitalradio.com/news/display.asp?id=289
>>>
>>> Where there's reference to Core too.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> From Ray
>>> I can be contacted off-list at:
>>> mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
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