Friday, 15 February 2008
From: "Christopher England" <...>
Faster or slower than if it was London oriented?
Erm, err,
Probably faster. Talking radio wise I probably only listen to 5 Live, and Radio 4 now and again, and although based in London they are national.
City Talk is supposed to serve MERSEYSIDE, the BBC local station does that quite well.
City Talk might settle down, but I tend to agree with you that sport, mainly football, will sell better on Merseyside. We are only in the early stages, and in some ways I admire the route they have taken so far, staying away from sport apart from 7–10pm weeknights & Saturday afternoons. But they must surely broaden to the whole of Merseyside to succeed, although I live over the water in Wirral I can see that bloody tower from my back bedroom!
I will also start the campaign to sack Price and replace with England if you want :-)
Those who think that offshore commercial broadcasting started in the 1960’s are wrong.
An edition of Modern Mechanix magazine published in 1934 reveals that a pirate radio station was operating from a ship off the coast of California, and border broadcasters in Mexico were thought to be planning more.
These stations found and occupied a quiet spot on the dial, and advertised “gambling, liquor and other dubious activities.” Here is the article, http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/04/outlaws-may-use-super-stations-at-sea/
Dave.
Quoting a previous Steve Martin contribution:-
City Talk might settle down, but I tend to agree with you that sport,
mainly football, will sell better on Merseyside. We are only in the
early stages, and in some ways I admire the route they have taken so
far, staying away from sport apart from 7–10pm weeknights & Saturday
afternoons.
The 'sport' flavour does actually start during the hour before 7pm in truth, it's just a little subliminal – but it is crafted to blend in and not disappoint those who might be tuning in for the footie and stuff after 7pm.
But they must surely broaden to the whole of Merseyside to
succeed, although I live over the water in Wirral I can see that bloody
tower from my back bedroom!
I'll take my binoculars next time I'm up there and see if I can see what you're up to in your bedroom. Mwahahahahaha!
I will also start the campaign to sack Price and replace with England if
you want :-)
Yes please. I want that slot. I want it now. Not 5 years from now when his contract runs out. I want to be on your radio, moaning about you lot, now!
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In article <180fd24f72c0a8afa3b14c91bba8c556@jiglu-wc>, ... (Dave Martin) wrote:
These stations found and occupied a quiet spot on the dial, and
advertised _gambling, liquor and other dubious activities._ Here is
80 years on and the creature called a human-being hasn't changed much then :-)
In article <00e901c86fc3$13ccbdb0$6f99d152@malmoe>, ... (Roy) wrote:
I did meet a lot of truckers from NL and they told me that am
listning from holland is still populair like 10 gold,
Hundreds Roy, thousands or TENS of thousands.
If you are honest it will be hundreds – not a viable radio audience Sorry
Eric
It took a while for my brain cell to kick-in, must have been when I took my shoes off.
Once upon a day I was positive about cassettes cos they were more user friendly than open-reel or 8-track.
Never saw the point of laser-disk but was really positive about VHS, never did see why the added cost of BETA to play stuff on a mono 4:3 TV (might have held a different view had better TVs been around)
Then I fell out with tape and was all positive about CDs.
Looked at the UKs BSB and got all positive about Astra
Never got into DAT but suffered Mini-disk even though I didn't like it.
The above is very easy understand, but when we come to radio its Dodo time, why?
I'll leave U to ponder that over the weekend.
Eric
Quoting a previous tesug contribution:-
Then I fell out with tape and was all positive about CDs.
The CD shape has retained its, er, shape, and developed on to blue-ray, or DVD and storing games, as well as sound or video, so it has strangely outlived all other media 'shapes'.
In TV, even high def, we are still stuck in the age of the DV tape (It looks a bit like a DAT). We seem to be taking a dog's age to move onto a fully digital tapeless solution. It's started in news gathering and also at the lower end of the domestic market, but the standard is still bloody DV tape. It's so expensive to move to high quality fully digital solutions. Sigh. Still, at least we're not as mad as those mad people called Americans. They still shoot everything on film. What's that about?
Anyway. I hate DV tapes. Did I mention that? Maybe because of my experiences with them dropping out or getting lost, but probably because of the time it takes to capture from them. Time is money. My company only ever uses DV tapes once and that's it, but we all hate them. Grrr.
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Roy Radio 603 <...> said:
Re: DAB RadioI did meet a lot of truckers from NL and they told me that am listning from holland is still populair like 10 gold
How many listeners would that be? 50, 100...200? We are talking minorities here.
Hans.
Here is a copy of an email that I received today in case anyone else is interested.
> You will, I hope, be pleased to hear that my Biography of Captain
> Plugge is now available from Kelly Publications Ltd. 6 Redlands,
> Tiverton, Devon EX16 4DH - Tel. 01884-256170. Email -
> .... Paper or hardback.
> At last the full true story of this remarkable pioneer is told with
> 165 illustrations, most never previously published.
> If you would like further details please let me know.
> Regards
> Keith Wallis
Hi Eric,
I saw at your site that you are looking around to a new DJ. Ask Mike Spenser if he got time to work for your station.
Roy in Sweden
From: "Roy Sandgren" <...>
Hi Eric,
I saw at your site that you are looking around to a new DJ. Ask Mike
Spenser if he got time to work for your station.
Roy in Sweden
Ha-ha! LOL
Where is he these days?
Sterling Times <2@slewis.biz> said:
<html><head><title></title></head><body><p>Here is a copy of an email that I received today in case anyone else is interested. </p><p>> You will, I hope, be pleased to hear that my Biography of Captain <br />> Plugge is now available from Kelly Publications Ltd. 6 Redlands, <br />> Tiverton, Devon EX16 4DH – Tel. 01884–256170. Email – <br />> .... Paper or hardback.<br />> At last the full true story of this remarkable pioneer is told with <br />> 165 illustrations, most never previously published.<br />> If you would like further details please let me know.<br />> Regards<br />> Keith Wallis</p></body></html>
Captain Plugge the Great unsung Hero of UK commercial radio!.
Someone once mentioned about getting a license from one of the third world countries.
Well today here in London I sold a LPTV transmitter to someone visiting from said third world country.
I enquired about a broadcast license. He said no problem. Just tell the local government office what you ant and you'll be given a license free of charge.
They've got diamonds in the ground and the war stopped in 2004!
Hans . <...> said:
Roy Radio 603 <...> said:
Re: DAB RadioI did meet a lot of truckers from NL and they told me that am listning from holland is still populair like 10 goldHow many listeners would that be? 50, 100...200? We are talking
minorities here.Hans.
I've just checked Dutch Radio listening figures via RNW Media network archives for the past few months. Back in the summer when Radio 10 Gold and Arrow Classic Rock were on AM (and cable) they had an audience of around 4.3% and 1.8% respectively. Veronica (on FM and cable) had 5.6%.
Seven months on, 10 Gold is off terrestrial completely and gets an audience of 3.2%, and Arrow, now just on FM, gets 2.3%. OK, it peaked at 3.0% while on both FM and AM with subtly different services a couple of months back. Veronica, on FM and cable throughout this time, has 5.8%.
In spite of these major changes to 10 Gold and Arrow's accessibility/audibility, and consequent potential competition to Veronica, their positions in the league of radio listening have stubbornly remained at 7th, 8th and 9th place.
So what does this tell us?
Perhaps, in Holland, cable (or internet) plays a big part in all radio listening? Or maybe a large proportion of people seek out their station of choice, no matter what platform it's on.
Or......any other theories? And what about DAB in Holland? Is anyone listening and if so, to what?
AE
PS: AFAIAA Big L 1395 has never appeared in Dutch Top 20 listening tables. Is it not included, as it's not a Dutch service, or because, even in Holland, no one is listening?
