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[quote name='Shaggy' post='138679' date='Feb 12 2008, 09:31 AM']Very little advertising compared with other commercial stations - is that the root problem?[/quote]
Probably. Advertisers obviously want to reach as many people as possible for their money -- so they won't bother if the station doesn't have many listeners.

I'll be sad to see Planet Rock go, too. Where else on the radio will we get the old, screamy rock stuff?

Cheers

Mark

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I only just bought a DAB radio and discovered what I've been missing. I was utterly amazed to hear Planet Rock playing loads of stuff I hadn't heard since my student days of the early '80's.

I really hope they find a buyer.

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Weirdly the same company that own planet rock have shut down their other specialist station 'TheJazz' - given that Jazz has one of the most easily definable 'affluent demographics', according to marketeers, you'd have thought they'd be able to make it work... the two stations had 900,000 listeners between them - how does that work out to failing radio??? Surely in DAB terms, that's a pretty major slice of the pie...

It's a shame, both ways,

Steve

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[quote name='wizbat' post='138490' date='Feb 11 2008, 09:45 PM']It was annonced in the press and on air today that the Uk DAB radio station Planet Rock is officially up for sale and if a buyer is not found the station could be gone by the end of march.
I,m now going to the pub to drown my sorrows. :)[/quote]

MB1. :huh:
Looks like its everybody back to wizbats then Pop pickers!....Er have you a bodcan? ;)

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It's a hatchett job by the woman exec brought in to PR's parent company. Didn't think the take up of DAB radio was as fast as expected so they are pulling out of DAB and reinvesting in FM - how short sighted can you get? So the money will just go on Capital Gold for Londeners only. There's an outside chance that Virgin may fill the vacated slot with their (currently only available to London) classic rock station, which I've never heard.

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[quote name='Steve Lawson' post='138823' date='Feb 12 2008, 01:12 PM']Weirdly the same company that own planet rock have shut down their other specialist station 'TheJazz' - given that Jazz has one of the most easily definable 'affluent demographics', according to marketeers, you'd have thought they'd be able to make it work... the two stations had 900,000 listeners between them - how does that work out to failing radio??? Surely in DAB terms, that's a pretty major slice of the pie...

It's a shame, both ways,

Steve[/quote]

[rant=on]
Absolutely Steve - it's a damn shame and a very short sighted move that goes in completely the opposite direction to all the other companies involved with DAB - theJazz was doing well too - it had 400,000 listeners a week which actually puts to shame the kind of numbers BBC Radio 3 get for their jazz shows - and yes the ABC1 demographic is minted - they are generally older more affluent listeners so it's a hugely ignorant move on the part of new MD Fru Hazlitt - but then again she earns 300K a year so why should give a damn... she's really damaged jazz in the UK - just as things were looking brighter than they had for years.

Lest to say I won't type what I'd actually like to do to her - except that big business is killing culture and always backing the lowest common denominator stuff - 200,000 people watched that utterly utterly awful Lilly Allen show the other night - I tuned for a second just see how bad it was (it was worse than terrible) - how much money did they spend advertising that??? There's a huge poster campaign around London - need I say more... no - but it really pisses me off - the arts are being Royally sh@t upon in this country... X Factor and Big Brother anyone? I thought not.
[rant=off]

Sorry had to get that off my chest

Mike

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[quote name='KevB' post='141004' date='Feb 15 2008, 01:07 PM']It's a hatchett job by the woman exec brought in to PR's parent company. Didn't think the take up of DAB radio was as fast as expected so they are pulling out of DAB and reinvesting in FM - how short sighted can you get? So the money will just go on Capital Gold for Londeners only. There's an outside chance that Virgin may fill the vacated slot with their (currently only available to London) classic rock station, which I've never heard.[/quote]

+1

Exactly - theJazz and Planet Rock were serving the whole country - London does get well served - but that's not the point is it - quality alternatives are badly needed across the whole country...

M

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Message from TheJazz;

[quote]As you may already be aware, theJazz is to close at the end of March. I wanted to thank you for the support that you have given to us over the past 15 months. Moving forward, I would like to let you know about the exciting plans we have for jazz fans on Classic FM.

We remain committed to supporting jazz music and the musicians who make it and in a major step we are introducing jazz to the station with a two-hour show, seven days a week. From today (February 25), Helen Mayhew presents her programme on weekdays, while Tim Lihoreau will present at the weekend, each of them on air from midnight to 2am. Another familiar voice from theJazz joins Classic FM when Margherita Taylor joins the presenter line-up too, hosting Smooth Classics at Six every evening. You can also hear Mark Forrest , from theJazz's breakfast show, on Classic FM on weekday afternoons from three o'clock.

These Classic FM Jazz programmes will be on FM as well as DAB and in addition, you can hear them at your leisure because the programmes will be available for you to listen at any time of the day or night, up to a week after broadcast through Classic FM's 'listen again' service, which can be accessed if you click here.

We do hope you are able to enjoy the new programmes.

Darren Henley[/quote]

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[quote name='paul, the' post='151437' date='Mar 4 2008, 11:46 PM']Cheers for the informative post. If I knew I was going to be listening to TheJazz in the foreseeable future I'd definitely pay a monthly fee. It's so worth it being able to stick sky on and have it playing in the background. Anyone know if Freeview gets DAB?[/quote]

I have the Virgin freeview and we get both TheJazz and Planet Rock, plus a fair few more.

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[url="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/guardianmediagroup.radio?gusrc=rss&feed=media"]http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/2...&feed=media[/url]

JazzFM to relaunch on DAB?
hurray!

but DAB is in trouble-
[url="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a5c32e60-ea3f-11dc-b3c9-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1"]http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a5c32e60-ea3f-11...?nclick_check=1[/url]

looks like the beeb has to switch radio 1 and 2 to DAB only to encourage take-up of the technology by consumers.

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