[access-uk] Re: Possibly off topic, but is this the beginningof the endfor dab digital radio

  • From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:40:41 -0000

Mind you the Arrow has a pretty cyclical  playlist, or did when I
listened a year or so back.  Things seemed to come round again pretty
quickly, and I soon got bored.  Wonder why women are so noticeable by
their absense on these stations too?

Must say that, apart from the now departed Saga - which was also on
FM - I found little the commercial providers did of much interest or
entertainment to me.  The more convenient BBC choices on DAB I do
like.

I aught no doubt to be saying something like this on the UK Radio
list, but I find that a bit too much of an anoraks list for me, and I
don't mean that in a derogatory way, but I feel way out of my depth
there.  The transport list is a bit like that too!

Just maybe if DAB's future does exstend into the new system which will
be launched in the next year or two, we'll have something to talk
about on this list re. accessibility?

Cheers,

From Ray
I can be contacted off-list at:

mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
Dave Taylor
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Possibly off topic, but is this the
beginningof the endfor dab digital radio


Yes, Planet Rock was another of the old GWR stations and its playlist
far too narrow. Got bored of it years ago. I think GMG are launching
another rock station to compliment The Arrow anyway.

Cheers
Dave



From: martin wilsher
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:47 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Possibly off topic, but is this the
beginningof the endfor dab digital radio


hearing this on radio four, it seems GCAP who own planet rock and Jazz
fm, did not find the stations viable.  I have listened to planet rock
and it seems to be the same songs all the time, which is rather par
for the course with a lot of the network radio stations.  GWR group
who own a lot of the local commercial radio stations have this policy
too, and it drives me nuts.  so I can see why GCAP did not make a lot
of money with their ventures.  yes, the radio was sometimes good, late
at night, but the core listenership is during the day, and then, in my
experience, planet rock always played the same stuff, over and over.
it was said on radio four, however, that a new multiplex was launching
in the summer with a channel four consortium backing it, so we will
have to see where that goes.





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