Really Fed up!

[blackberry444]

I am so cross!  They're going to close down theJazz after only 15 months.  After all, it's only got a million listeners and increasing its audience all the time!

I think the broadcasting authorities have got it in for me.  First of all they closed down Oneword and now it's theJazz, goddammit!

They've already wrecked BBC7 by broadcasting children's TV during the afternoons and repeating stuff ad nauseam.

It must be a plot to make us all listen to Radio 4.

Grrrrr!  I am SO ANGRY!!!

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[caerleon.livejournal.com]

Indeed.. you must listen to Radio 4.. but don't worry.. you won't be able to hear that anymore unless you have long wave.. digital is the way to go.. it means you can't hear it anywhere, and especially on the move, so the radio's dead.. Hurrah.. just like pubs and clubs and any other things where people may actually dissent..

[blackberry44.livejournal.com]

Well, as a marreroffact, I *do* have DAB. theJazz is one of the digital stations which has just been sold to someone else, so goodbye the Jazz!

Blastit!

[g8bur.livejournal.com]

Trouble is, a DAB channel is much easier to close down than an analogue one from the transmitter point of view - they can just sell the vacated bandwidth to the next firm that fancies having a go at digital radio, rather than being left with a transmitter on a set FM or AM frequency sitting unused on a hilltop.

I noticed that Oneword had been replaced by 'Birdsong' a little while ago, but I didn't know about the Radio 7 changes - I must confess to being a Radio 4/LBC 97.3/ LBC News 1152 listener (and very occasionally Talksport), both on DAB and on FM/AM. All the other DAB stations in this neck of the woods seem to pump out various types of pop music, almost none of which does anything for me.

I hope they replace The Jazz and Oneword with something decent.

[blackberry44.livejournal.com]

Birdsong on Oneword's old station is, I understand, a "place marker" indicating that someone intends to do something with it, but I know not what.

The Radio 7 changes only affect the afternoons, but that is when I want to listen. Instead they have rehashes of C Beebies all afternoon. I don't mind the other children's content, it's quite good, but that ruddy C Beebies makes me want to stick scissors in my ears.

I don't suppose there will ever be another proper jazz station. The only other one I've heard seems to confuse jazz with other kinds of music.

I'm very upset about it as I listen to it a LOT. I also find it calming and soothing, so of course, I mustn't be allowed to have it.

Wail! Gnash!

[g8bur.livejournal.com]

Birdsong on Oneword's old station is, I understand, a "place marker" indicating that someone intends to do something with it, but I know not what.

I'd heard it previously (a year or more ago) on one of the transmitters near here; the station name was something odd like "Ten 2" or similar, and I had the impression it was some sort of test channel. AFAIK nothing specific replaced it; it just disappeared one day.

The Radio 7 changes only affect the afternoons, but that is when I want to listen. Instead they have rehashes of C Beebies all afternoon.

Ye ghods! It sounds as if they're desperate for something to fill in airtime - I'd have thought they could have done better than just reprocessing TV material for radio. I've never watched CBeebies, and from the sound of it, I hope I never will!

I don't suppose there will ever be another proper jazz station. The only other one I've heard seems to confuse jazz with other kinds of music.

There used to be a jazz station on FM around here, but I think it was the same programming as The Jazz on DAB. Its frequency was taken over by something called "Smooth FM".

Not being a fan of it, I don't know enough about jazz to know where its borders with other music lie, but I have noted the same syndrome with 'folk' music that was hardly describable as such.

[cat63.livejournal.com]

After all, it's only got a million listeners and increasing its audience all the time!

Is it a commercial station? If so it may be the advertisers who are the problem rather than the audience figures...

Is there anyone you can write to/ring up/email/otherwise pester (and perhaps get others to join you in so doing) so that they know people do listen to the station and are upset at it closing down?

[blackberry44.livejournal.com]

It *is* a commercial station and it does have quite a lot of government advertising as well as other stuff, so I don't think it's that. It seems to be more about the machinations of Big Business buying and selling each other. I expect they plan another bloody pop station churning out rap and over-fast "music".

I don't think there's any point in protesting as it seems to be a done deal, and when I went online last night to rant about it, the forum was mysteriously "unavailable"

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

[cat63.livejournal.com]

I expect they plan another bloody pop station churning out rap and over-fast "music".

I rather like pop music meself (although I'm not keen on rap), but there are quite enough pop stations already. Wretched people!

[g8bur.livejournal.com]

...there are quite enough pop stations already.

Absolutely - of the thirty-odd to be heard on DAB in this area, I can hardly tell t'other from which. I got DAB as I thought there'd be a greater variety of stations, including some specialist ones, but it seems to be almost all taken up by a mass of pop stations all trying to compete for the same audience.

[cat63.livejournal.com]

We haven't gone DAB yet - I understand they're changing the standard or something soon too and rendering the first generation of DAB radios obsolete. Abstrads.

[g8bur.livejournal.com]

I understand they're changing the standard or something soon too and rendering the first generation of DAB radios obsolete.

Yes, I'd heard that too - they want to use a newer digital encoding protocol that'll let them put out more bandwidth (so either more stations, and/or better quality per station) on one transmitter. AIUI both old and new sets will still get the stations currently on-air, but eventually all the old sets will be scrap when all the stations have changed over to the newer protocol.

Abstrads.

Absolutely.