Monday, 11 August 2008

In article <da56c9a944808e3075c0a8bc19444be6@jiglu-wc>, (Address removed) (Neil Gates) wrote:

The point is Eric it IS there and it will still be there in ten
years time.....I will remind you of this post then when I am proved
right!

Be my guest Neil, I am sure there will be AM sets lying around, sure some will be retained in classic-cars for obvious reasons. However, new cars won't have AM – and better how's about posting a regular review of figures from places like RAJAR showing AM growth, or to be fair, no growth or decreases in figures. Again I hasten to add, the older listeners will probably be the last to go so expect local radio stations to be the longest serving and surviving AM station – you might make 10 years with one of two of those, but not sure.

Eric

In article <e8f1711645e330b12db2aada293827c1@jiglu-wc>, (Address removed) (Christopher England) wrote:

However, the N95 will easily provide you with anywhere-you-like
listening to Arrow Classic Rock. I have just selected it on mine. I
wouldn't normally listen to oldies you understand so I'm highly
medicated to avoid any dangerous reaction, but as I type this my
phone has a large logo on screen saying "Arrow Classic Rock" and a
scrolling ticker saying "*** Classic Rock 70s 80s ***" and the
speaker is spewing out Robert Palmer's Every Kind of People.

Damn, why didn't I think of that/those arguments :-)

In article <9068b5b0b52830f670c7a207dcf59902@jiglu-wc>, (Address removed) (Christopher England) wrote:

I'm thinking the anti-digital argument is a bit like the anti-CD
argument; 10 years too late!

Er, yes – and I'll add the anti-digital satellite, anti digital telly.

Eric

In article <e93261990ac8ba3c808a8818ef730eaa@jiglu-wc>, (Address removed) (Richard Sharpe) wrote:

Oo – reminds me, Mike Reid does his new, low budget, Pop Quiz on Red.

Eric

In article <dbe1a72fa6e8d0f82cdbeba7cffcf561@jiglu-wc>, (Address removed) (Trevor Mcilveen) wrote:

*From:* Trevor Mcilveen <(Address removed)>
*To:* Anorak Nation <(Address removed)>
*Date:* 11 Aug 2008 00:04:58 +0100

On 8th August uklightradio.co.uk began its test broadcast.On the
holding page you can see the shedule. Looks interesting

With respect to all concerned, very QEFM-ish. Maybe this time it will work.
Not my cup of tea, but if it can gain suitable publicity it could have legs, especially as the sliver-surfers are growing like mad.

Eric



Sounds good to me. I would have called it "The Light Programme".

There is very little available in this genre.

I will give it a listen.

In article <8997a204b386cdecf6338ca56497f2e5@jiglu-wc>, 2@slewis.biz (Sterling Times) wrote:

"The Light Programme".

There is very little available in this genre.

I will give it a listen.

You know as a youngster I considered that the anti-christ. My only real memories of the light programme are Fluff, follows by that appalling programme 'Sing Something Simple'.

Then Brian Matthew and waiting for one half decent track during Saturday Club.

Even when Radio One started the ghost of the Light Programme continued with Jimmy Young and MORE of the ruddy BBC singers – ARGGGGHHHHHHHH if ever there was a candidate for Lift Music of the previous century I'll vote the Light Programme as the winner.

It was TERRIBLE, mind you the early days of Caroline weren't that much better. (He says ducking for the flack).

As per usual I have been asked what am I doing for 14 Aug and do you known it's hard. So I thought – I know I'll play good music from that era. Hmmmm, damned hard work finding decent material that was actually in the charts that I would even suggest was good music – loads of plinkity-plink and ballads. Makes you wonder who did have the clout, offshore or the BBC.
And it doesn't surprise me that 14 Aug produces the same few tracks each year, mainly as the rest would have been better suited to the Light Programme.

Sorry Rant over.

Eric

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7552986.stm

:-(

Eric

Steve Martin <(Address removed)> said:
...

And just to give a little bit of credit to the original poster that Nico has
forgotten to credit. This was originally posted by Chris B on the Seagull
Yahoo Group.

Hi Steve Martin. Very much thanks to you for attenting to me that I was forgotten to mention the original person who have posted this message! Greetings of Nico from Gouda, the Netherlands.

Dave Martin <(Address removed)> said:
Special programs start tonight at midnight, go here to listen,
http://www.geocities.com/wnkr_sw/mboa.htm

Dave

Hi Dave. This link does NOT work! Nico.

Hello everyone. What the date of 14 August means for the English offshore radiostations, so equal the date of 31 August have the same meaning for the Dutch offshore radiostations. Read now the following message in the Dutch language.

Van de website van museum Rock Art Hoek van Holland http://www.rockart.nl/

"
SPECIALE EXTRA ZONDAGOPENING:

31 augustus

Live Radio Uitzending i.s.m. stichting Norderney onder leiding van AD BOUMAN

meer info volgt !!!!

van 09.00 – 19.00 uur"

.... op hoeveel meter op de middengolf? 828 of 1395 meter? Nico.

( I mean herewith the 828 kHz-frequency of CAZ! and the 1395 kHz-frequency of BIgL)

Q_1_2_3_4_5_6 <(Address removed)> said:

Dave Martin <(Address removed)> said:
Special programs start tonight at midnight, go here to listen,
http://www.geocities.com/wnkr_sw/mboa.htm

Dave

Hi Dave. This link does NOT work! Nico.

Oohps! This link now really works! Enjoy to listen to WKNR by its webstream! Nico.



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Christopher England said:

The longer answer is that you have to think of your phone as a computer.
Instead of 'Windows XP / Vista' it uses 'Symbian OS'. Instead of a
'broadband' connection it uses a '3G' connection. Just like with
broadband there are different price plans available for 3G service.
There are pay as you go (ouch) or unlimited packages.

That's great Christopher, thanks for the translation into English. Will explore the options.
 

Once you have that done then it's dead simple to just click on the
player on your phone, scroll through the hundreds of words to the name
of the station of your choice and press play. That's what I just did to
force myself to listen to Arrow Classic Rock. (Do they really only have
one 'jingle' and it just says "Arrow" and that's it?)

Hmmm, yes sorry about that – I feel I have put you through unnecessary suffering!

PS. If you are drunk and lost on your bike, the N95 also has an
integrated Sat Nav. :-)

Aha – tales of my heroic exploits getting home from the pub on two wheels have clearly spread far and wide!

Regards,
Giles.

Eric Tesug said:

The thing I am beginning to wonder is now who is behind the times,
certainly not the Slovak truckers.

I'm afraid I don't have many Slovak trucker pals to corroborate your story, but I take your point Eric! I wonder though if you may be confusing a healthy scepticism of new technology with being behind the times. I think they're two different things. There's loads of new stuff around now that's fantastic that I use all the time like my MP3, digi camera, Google Earth, (even VHF!). If it's new and it works and is reasonably priced, then great. If it's new, expensive and crap then not so great. Some new things were rubbish – remember the Sinclair C5, the Beta Max video recorder, mini discs and of course DAB ?!! : )

Incidentally, going back to lorry drivers, Radio Netherlands have a programme on short-wave and sometimes on 1296 mw devoted to Dutch truckers across Europe. It would be interesting to know what their audience figures are like.

Regards,
Giles.

I was looking on the Sky EPG this evening.

I went to Red TV and selected Thursday however on Thursday evening it would appear that they are just broadcasting normal programmes. No mention of any programmes relaated to Pirate Radio.

Is this all a hoax? Unless the EPG is wrong, which could be possible.

Andrew Smith