Sunday, 8 June 2008
The Anorak Nation poll "My favourite rock radio station is quite definitely" has been closed. The results are:
The Arrow: 2 votes
Caroline (Maidstone): 9 votes
Kerrang Radio: 0 votes
Planet Caroline: 0 votes
Planet Rock: 5 votes
Rock Radio: 0 votes
Radio Seagull: 1 votes
Totalrock: 0 votes
Virgin Classic Rock: 0 votes
XFM: 1 votes
The total number of votes cast was 18.
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In article <0d48d78699feaae232c736432c50ae99@jiglu-wc>, ... (RC Guff) wrote:
Just another string to the bow of anti-English across Europe. I
can't see how a regulator just changes their mind after you have
had an English language service for what? over 4–5 years? Did they
consult anyone? Did stats say an English language wasn't required,
or did the regulator just think ' Sodvich, Ve Vill Change Dis' !I don't expect you to reply Eric, if you do, I will expect a
carefully strung together phrase that won't upset zem, which I
fully understand. For the regulator to change this unweighted seems
a little drastic or draconian to say the least.
I don't want to be rude or sound like a sound-bite. The direct answer is I don't know who is pulling which chain. What I can say, for sure as the pictures and reports are there to prove it, the boss of the regulator came to our launch party and signed the license at that time – equally the reports for the Slovak News Agency confirmed that which we thought we had in terms of a licensing agreement.
What I can also say for sure is that if they had told us this is how it would become; we would never have started by buying an FM service that was in danger of having its previously issued license being revoked due to failure to get on-air.
BTW there are many similar comments being sent and MOST by Slovak citizens
Eric
PS Who was told by his Chairman this very morning we will find a way forward!
Eric Tesug <...> said:
BTW there are many similar comments being sent and MOST by Slovak
citizensEric
PS Who was told by his Chairman this very morning we will find a way
forward!
I sincerely hope your Chairman has some strings or ropes to pull on too, I know you've all worked hard to make the station a success in Slovakia, it's just a bloody shame when politicians and authorities think they know better and spoil a good thing. Hope it all works out! Takes guts to uproot and commit to something you put your heart and soul into, despite the flak others like to take joy in moking or trying to through spanners in the works.
...Hmmmm. Nope, don't get it. Nice interface an' all but why do we need a Twitter without mobile texts? That's all it is really.
Anybody here plurked?
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* Christopher England just said that *
Quoting a previous Alan Milewczyk contribution:-
(Thanks for a great read, by the way)
No two ways about it, 64–65 were the days of the
North ship, 66–67 it was the South ship that kicked ass.
Isn't it strange how in reality the offshore radio experience of "the sixties" is actually a lot shorter than you think. I mean, even 1964 to 1967 is in itself only 3 years, but in reality the stations were only listenable to by lovers of pop formats for a year or so. A year or so isn't long in truth, is it? And yet we hang on those 'year' periods as if they were huge decades. Maybe a year is a long time when you are very young. The same thing happened with Laser 558. In truth it wasn't actually here for a very long time at all. Yet, it too is remembered as if it was there for decades!
Maybe 'good' radio can only exist for a year and then it has to go away again in order for it to be appreciated.
I wonder whether Ronan and his people played a canny game in the merger,
knowing that Crawford's music policy was doomed to failure and that it
was a matter of sitting it out until the inevitable happened. I guess we
will never know.
What's interesting though is you could sort of argue that Caroline South had no real connection with Caroline North beyond the name branding, and indeed Caroline North was actually Ronan's baby, not the South ship.
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* Christopher England just said that *
Quoting a previous Alan Milewczyk contribution:-
Of course, I vowed when I got older I wouldn't say the same things, but
when punk first hit, I just didn't get it – I still don't – and found
myself repeating my father's words!
Heh heh. You poor thing!
I think part of the problem is that we don't really understand the
younger generation and they don't understand us – nothing much changes –
and ignorance breeds fear.
True. But, it is kind of sad that there is that anger or aggression. As the more mature generation, surely we should be the bridge builders and maybe try to 'accept' if we can't 'understand'. Or maybe it has to be the way it is in order for humanity to move forward..
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