Topic: Play radio

I listened to Radio Oscar last night, with Oscar's special guests – a couple of drunken grumpy old men called Duncan and Tommy.

Just tried Play Radio and nothing works, server errors, webcam shows a pic from 13th May then dies. Don't have a prob with anything else???

Not by the DTI but by Chappers and Randy who are a couple of regular contributors who thought they would gate-crash and give Matt a kicking.

I was looking at the listeners numbers at Shoutcast, and as far as they may be meaningful noticed that most of the Play stations were recording listener numbers of less than ten.

The Tommy Boyd and Duncan Barkes webcasts were booked for a run of 12 on an experimental basis. Only 2 remain so folks are pondering what to do in the future.

Quoting a previous Oscar contribution:- Now this would have all been far more convincing had the 'technical operator' dude not been pictured just sitting there laughing as the...

Quoting a previous Oscar contribution:- It would be interesting to stop the moans about how terrible everything is, and worshipping the 'good old days', and maybe for...

Sterling Times said: The guy who allegedly is the main man behind Play Radio is Marcus who was seen and heard for a two hour period on the last of the first season of Boydcasts.

Not sure that there will ever be a direct equivalent of Rush, but we have the potential for some talkers of a different (British) style to become quite big and successful.

Steve Martin said: I'm afraid I don't know, but I get the impression they are not too bad for a net-only station.

2008/​8/​7 Oscar <...>: 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...

In article <9579d60016eceb4ff40d52bc643d5ee9@jiglu-wc>, ... (Anthony Cant) wrote: I guess you could always look at 'netnames' to see who's hosting it and the...

A quick reminder that Iain Lee will be on Play Two UK for the first time tonight between 8pm and 12 midnight.

I believe James Whale is scheduled to present his first show on Play Two this evening starting at 6pm through until 10pm.

"Unregulated" presumably means that internet radio in the UK could do what hundreds of US stations have been able to do for years, i.e. permit biased talk in programmes.