Wednesday, 6 August 2008

In article <4a633c0d4a9aeaa24e8c7f86a2a43430@jiglu-wc>, ... (Neil Gates) wrote:

If Big L had a strong signal into the Uk on for instance 675 and
not the un-viable 1395 it would not be in financial trouble now.

Considering I haven't seen a growth figure for AM in a long time, what makes you feel an AM signal would be a financial success?

Eric

In article <4b9f868e524ab338fd0ea6d492b9a10c@jiglu-wc>, ... (Q_1_2_3_4_5_6) wrote:

Hallo everyone. In message no. 34 on
http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/big-ls-dutch-mediumwave-transmitter
-on-1395-khz-switched-off you can read a message of Ruud Poeze that
BigL will perhaps soon transmit from Terneuzen. But what does he
mean with the words "red tape"? Greetings of Nico from Gouda, the
Netherlands.

 Red Tape means – government type paperwork

In article <...>, ... (Steve Martin) wrote:

From: "tesug" <...>

Well if they do _ good luck. Must be some deep pockets somewhere,
that's
all I can say.

My thoughts exactly Eric.

I genuinely wish them well.

So do I Steve. Out of context of BigL I was recently asked if the appearance of a station near to our service would upset me. Not at all as I think the more listener choice there is the better – it is actually easier to see that which works if there is more choice, and naturally that which doesn't work.

Eric Tesug <...> said:
 

Considering I haven't seen a growth figure for AM in a long time, what
makes you feel an AM signal would be a financial success?

It's all pure speculation of course Eric and I couldn't say it would definately have been a success, but, there were times whilst R 10 Gold and Arrow were on 675 when you couldn't go anywhere in parts of Norfolk for example, without hearing 675 on in some shop or other. I remember one day in particular I heard R10 Gold in a cafe and then a shop in Wells and later that day a bloke on Fakenham market had it blasting out on his portable. It was almost like the old Laser days when every set in E Anglia seemd to be tuned in! Elsewhere, I once jumped into a cab in Kidderminster of all places, and R10 was on in the car (675). A highly unscientific survey I admit, but perhaps evidence that such a cracking signal, combined with good music, attracted listeners even with foreign language programming. One would naturally conclude perhaps that the same music with English programming could have achieved more. Guess we'll never know now.

Like it or not, and for whatever reason, folk still seem to be using AM, and if the programmes/ signal are good enough, they seem to listen.

I also remember hearing once that Arrow on 675 was runoured to be the most popular station in many prisons along the E. side of the UK! Regards,
Giles.

Eric Tesug said:

Considering I haven't seen a growth figure for AM in a long time,

I have heard it said (and seen some figures for certain programmes on certain stations) that some AM stations in the USA are growing in popularity quite nicely right now. They are the ones that carry the talk format with a mix of the hugely popular syndicated shows plus some local shows at certain times.

In article <2c13ec08c381b5edfdc39d9ac63fe50d@jiglu-wc>, ... (gloworm558 .) wrote:

language programming. One would naturally conclude perhaps that the
same music with English programming could have achieved more. Guess
we'll never know now.
Like it or not, and for whatever reason, folk still seem to be
using AM, and if the programmes/ signal are good enough, they seem
to listen.

You'd need to replicate that in and around the ad-agencies and with RAJAR me thinks. Also a smart business person would use something like R10 because the chances are his competitor(s) won't be advertising on it, great bonus.

I also remember hearing once that Arrow on 675 was runoured to be
the most popular station in many prisons along the E. side of the
UK! Regards,
Giles.

Now that could also mean people who like Rock music aren't good citizens
:-). And I wonder what you could sell to the inmates to make the numbers commercially viable?
Mind you, I do know a lot of people in Her Majesty's Hotels do listen to the radio – we would use the "Her Majestys Hotel" when commenting on messages received from said places, oh yeah we got them alright.

Eric

Here is the very latest posting of Ruud Poeze in http://www.iradio.be/news/article.php?id=161500&group=nl.media.radio scroll to very under on this link!

Meer vertellen is het stomste wat ik kan doen, wil ik voor BigL ook
deze laatste optie verkloten.
Door vroegtijdige publicatie in het verleden over sites werden deze geblokkeerd.

Greetings of Nico from Gouda, the Netherlands.

From: "Q_1_2_3_4_5_6" <...>

Here is the very latest posting of Ruud Poeze in
http://www.iradio.be/news/article.php?id=161500&group=nl.media.radio
scroll to very under on this link!

Meer vertellen is het stomste wat ik kan doen, wil ik voor BigL ook
deze laatste optie verkloten.
Door vroegtijdige publicatie in het verleden over sites werden deze
geblokkeerd.

Greetings of Nico from Gouda, the Netherlands.

OK then, give us a clue what it says la!

Steve Martin <...> said:

From: "Q_1_2_3_4_5_6" <...>

Here is the very latest posting of Ruud Poeze in
http://www.iradio.be/news/article.php?id=161500&group=nl.media.radio
scroll to very under on this link!

Meer vertellen is het stomste wat ik kan doen, wil ik voor BigL ook
deze laatste optie verkloten.
Door vroegtijdige publicatie in het verleden over sites werden deze
geblokkeerd.

Greetings of Nico from Gouda, the Netherlands.

OK then, give us a clue what it says la!

To tell you more would be the most stupid thing I could do. Early publication about sites has ruined chances for them in the past.

And he is right of course.

gloworm558 . <...> said:

Eric Tesug <...> said:
 

Considering I haven't seen a growth figure for AM in a long time, what
makes you feel an AM signal would be a financial success?

It's all pure speculation of course Eric and I couldn't say it would definately have been a success, but, there were times whilst R 10 Gold and Arrow were on 675 when you couldn't go anywhere in parts of Norfolk for example, without hearing 675 on in some shop or other. I remember one day in particular I heard R10 Gold in a cafe and then a shop in Wells and later that day a bloke on Fakenham market had it blasting out on his portable. It was almost like the old Laser days when every set in E Anglia seemd to be tuned in! Elsewhere, I once jumped into a cab in Kidderminster of all places, and R10 was on in the car (675). A highly unscientific survey I admit, but perhaps evidence that such a cracking signal, combined with good music, attracted listeners even with foreign language programming. One would naturally conclude perhaps that the same music with English programming could have achieved more. Guess we'll never know now.

Like it or not, and for whatever reason, folk still seem to be using AM, and if the programmes/ signal are good enough, they seem to listen.

I also remember hearing once that Arrow on 675 was runoured to be the most popular station in many prisons along the E. side of the UK!
Regards,
Giles.

 I couldn't agree more. There are 45 million regular radio listeners in the UK and MILLIONS of them listen to AM radio every day and are quite happy with what they hear!!!!

Oscar <...> said:

Having recently parted company with TalkSport, Mike Mendozeoff has now been added to the line-up of talkers at Play Radio and will be on Wednesdays and Thursdays 8pm to midnight starting next week on Play Two UK.

 Can't he get a job on a real station then???

Neil Gates said:

Can't he get a job on a real station then???

Well I have to say I would be happier if a line-up of talk presenters were being developed on an AM offshore station from a ship in the North Sea.

In the absence of such a station (at least for now) I am happy to see the folks at Play Radio working towards that goal. It is a nice unregulated environment and web radio appears to be getting more popular and more accessible.

I would not have listed Mendozeoff among my top 5 talkers or anything, but if Play Radio are to be able to build up towards a 24/7 talk channel they need to take on some more presenters as and when they become available.

If any offshore station does manage to launch it will fall flat on its backside if it adopts the belief and approach that spinning wax will be the key to its success.

Roy Litchfield said:

Just tried Play Radio and nothing works

Problems with the web page(s) or pop-up listen windows?
Worked OK for me but I use the listen.pls links in Winamp for listening.

Try clearing your browser cache. If you can get to the /listen webpage scroll down and there are alternative listen links for all services near the bottom of the page.

Play Two UK listen links are:-

http://audio1.playradiouk.com:9088/listen.pls (128k mp3)

http://audio1.playradiouk.com:9078/listen.pls (64k aacPlus)

http://audio1.playradiouk.com:1111/listen.pls (20k aacPlus)

Hope that helps.