wizbat Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3V17C Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 thats a shame - they have some good stuff on there sometimes, rick wakeman's show is quite amusing just for the constant bad jokes!! c Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Gutted - I recently got a DAB set for the car and always do the morning commute banging along to "Breakfast with Alice". Very little advertising compared with other commercial stations - is that the root problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc B Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 There's still 'The Arrow' - all rock radio for the Northeast! for a fix of classic rock. I alternate between The Arrow and 6Music on DAB. KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misrule Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 [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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krysbass Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 (edited) 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. Edited February 12, 2008 by Krysbass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Lawson Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexclaber Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 I only found this station last week when the guy doing our bathroom put it on... Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedontcarebear Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 They are getting rid of this and The Jazz, which were the only 2 DAB stations I listened to! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizbat Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 Planet rock have a regular 560,000+ listeners a week. If anyone has 2mil to spare they can buy themselves a radio station. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassmonster Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 that really sucks, my favorite station....and poor guy pratt just started there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizbat Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 Maybe his bandmates can do something about it. dark side of the moon still provides an absolute fortune for them every week with most of it in the weekly playlist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ergon Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 i don't have DAB but i sometimes listen to the DAB stations on Sky tv, however my sister doesn't allow rock and insists we listen to the sh.. rubbish on virgin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB1 Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 [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. Looks like its everybody back to wizbats then Pop pickers!....Er have you a bodcan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delberthot Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Its one of a handful of radio stations that I listen to. Being in central Scotland we also have Rock Radio which is one of my other favourites. I listen to Planet Rock every day, it can't go - right, where's my lottery ticket? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevB Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJA Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Brian May says in his blog about Planet Rock "can I buy it?" [url="http://www.brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/brianssbfeb08b.html#22"]http://www.brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/bri...bfeb08b.html#22[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urb Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 [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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urb Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 [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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizbat Posted February 15, 2008 Author Share Posted February 15, 2008 If anyone is in london tommorrow and want,s to go down to leicester square at 10am there is a group meeting to protest to the offices of gcap. I,m going to try and get down from lincolnshire if I get up early enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markytbass Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 I like "Breakfast with Alice" he doesn't get all over excited or up his own arse like some breakfast presenters I could mention. He has been there and done it and tells a good yarn about almost every rock band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul, the Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 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] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul, the Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixel Pirate Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 [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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJA Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 (edited) [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. Edited March 5, 2008 by SJA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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