Thursday, 7 August 2008

In article <5652db723837865ff176ae3df19d1c4c@jiglu-wc>, (Address removed) (Neil Gates) wrote:

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???

Hate to share this with you Neil, the places which produce commercials in 2008 includes proper Net stations, agreed not some of the smaller copy Net stations.
And further disaster comes with that news that cars in 2009 will have FM and Net radios – no AM, sorry dude. Well not all cars, just so you don't leap on the comment. However, the cars that are attractive to ad-people, in terms of who drives them, will probably have them.
I do agree with your previous e-mail in that some do listen to AM especially for local niche services. They also listen in areas where, as Giles indicated, there might be no option but AM for now, although that is a decreasing problem in this day and age unless you live in the deprived areas of Africa (as just one example).

I have to say I do admire your defence of AM, but there is one other thing to consider. AM costs a small fortune to maintain, just the crippling cost of electricity/diesel (even in third world countries). Therefore, it makes sense for broadcasters who want to reach a long term sustainable audience to look at more cost effective routes to those listeners. One power/bandwidth hungary station on analogue is not the long term future.

I look forward to your reply – no really I do it is good jousting

Eric

Illegal broadcasting is a menace which can cause interference to safety of life communications services and legal radio stations, denying listeners their choice of service. Ofcom, together with the police and local authorities takes swift action against this illegal activity. Ofcom today published a factsheet on its work in tackling illegal broadcasting, which contains information on how to contact Ofcom to report illegal broadcasters.

The factsheet can be found at: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radiocomms/ifi/enforcement/illegalbroadcast/factsh
eet.pdf

The factsheet can be found at:

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radiocomms/ifi/enforcement/illegalbroadcast/factsh

eet.pdf

Hi Eric

The link goes to "page not found"

Terry

Terry Williams <(Address removed)> said:

The factsheet can be found at:

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radiocomms/ifi/enforcement/illegalbroadcast/factsh

eet.pdf

Doh! just noticed the "eet pdf" that should be included in the link.

Sorry!

Eric Tesug said:

I do appreciate there are probs for Play as they have a number of
stations, but they could embed flag-ship shows like Mike and crew on the
front page, so easy to do and control.

You are right of course! I have just had another look and things are not quite right on there. The big "Listen Now" splash on the front page pops up as an error although the pop up window works from other pages if you select the channel.

This was mentioned during Whale's show earlier in the week but I thought it was just a temporary problem which they sorted within the hour. Maybe the web designer is trying to be too clever or something. They need to make it more user-friendly with clear and simple pop-up or stand-alone player listen buttons boldly positioned on the front page.

Anyone else wishing to try should maybe start from here:-

http://www.playradiouk.com/listen/

And select your chosen channel from the list or use the advanced listen options lower down the page.

Eric Tesug <(Address removed)> said:

In article <5652db723837865ff176ae3df19d1c4c@jiglu-wc>,
(Address removed) (Neil Gates) wrote:

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???

Hate to share this with you Neil, the places which produce commercials in
2008 includes proper Net stations, agreed not some of the smaller copy
Net stations.
And further disaster comes with that news that cars in 2009 will have FM
and Net radios – no AM, sorry dude. Well not all cars, just so you don't
leap on the comment. However, the cars that are attractive to ad-people,
in terms of who drives them, will probably have them.
I do agree with your previous e-mail in that some do listen to AM
especially for local niche services. They also listen in areas where, as
Giles indicated, there might be no option but AM for now, although that
is a decreasing problem in this day and age unless you live in the
deprived areas of Africa (as just one example).

I have to say I do admire your defence of AM, but there is one other
thing to consider. AM costs a small fortune to maintain, just the
crippling cost of electricity/diesel (even in third world countries).
Therefore, it makes sense for broadcasters who want to reach a long term
sustainable audience to look at more cost effective routes to those
listeners. One power/bandwidth hungary station on analogue is not the
long term future.

I look forward to your reply – no really I do it is good jousting

Eric

 Yes i'm shure all of those Chinese factorys producing car radios by the million are stopping production of radios with am in favor of net "radio" just so that the handful of people who listen to Play radio Uk and their ilk can listen in the car!!!

Bought a copy of MM yesterday. Thanks for posting the notice. David 

2008/8/7 Oscar <(Address removed)>:

Eric Tesug said:

I do appreciate there are probs for Play as they have a number of
stations, but they could embed flag-ship shows like Mike and crew on the
front page, so easy to do and control.

Best mass market option is for them to get on a database like the
Reciva database so that net radios pick em up just like that... Presumably car radios with net capability will use that database or an equivalent database. That is the way forward, as many have said you won't need to know whether the station you're listening to is a net, DAB, FM, DRM or whatever, just hit the name and it should select.
That has to be the future of radio.

Geoff