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.
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Date: 2008-02-12 04:06 pm (UTC)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.
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!
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.