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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[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.