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

  • From: "martin wilsher" <m.wilsher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:47:55 -0000

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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