Anyone listening to TeamRock Radio on DAB?
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Yep I have been. I started flipping between Talkst and Planet Rock on the way to/from work, but over weeks the playlists of the latter start to sound very limited (though I suppose you could say the same for both at this time of year ). I'd be happy with the test run continuing, although the variation in genre/sub-genre is 'interesting' at times.
Hadn't seen anything about this so thanks for the heads up.
Official launch is tonight at 2minuites to midnight.
Sounds ok so far on the test transmission, so will have to see what it offers with its proper scheduling.
Monday – Friday
0000 – 0200 Breaking Bands – Sophie K
0200 – 0600 Pete Bailey
0600 – 1000 Moose & JRock
1000 – 1400 Miss Rach
1400 – 1800 Dewsbury
1800 – 2100 Classic Rock Magazine Show – Nicky Horne
2100 – 0000 Metal Hammer Magazine Show – Alexander Milas
Done a bit of reading up on this and it appears to be a new start up company that has the new radio station and also bought the magazines Metal Hammer, Classic Rock, Prog Rock.
There will also be no adverts breaks like most commercial radio stations. They plan on doing ' partnerships, promotions and sponsorship opportunities with relevant clients and brands.'
The only downside is that on DAB it is 80kbps MONO. That multiplex (D1 National) was full, but the bandwidth has been found with the downgrade of Planet Rock and Absolute 80s from 112kbps Stereo down to 80kbps Mono for Planet Rock and 64kbps Mono for Absolute 80s. So much for the CD quality that DAB will bring that was originally advertised when DAB was launched.
Official launch is tonight at 2minuites to midnight.
Sounds ok so far on the test transmission, so will have to see what it offers with its proper scheduling.
Monday – Friday
0000 – 0200 Breaking Bands – Sophie K
0200 – 0600 Pete Bailey
0600 – 1000 Moose & JRock
1000 – 1400 Miss Rach
1400 – 1800 Dewsbury
1800 – 2100 Classic Rock Magazine Show – Nicky Horne
2100 – 0000 Metal Hammer Magazine Show – Alexander Milas
Done a bit of reading up on this and it appears to be a new start up company that has the new radio station and also bought the magazines Metal Hammer, Classic Rock, Prog Rock.
There will also be no adverts breaks like most commercial radio stations. They plan on doing ' partnerships, promotions and sponsorship opportunities with relevant clients and brands.'
The only downside is that on DAB it is 80kbps MONO. That multiplex (D1 National) was full, but the bandwidth has been found with the downgrade of Planet Rock and Absolute 80s from 112kbps Stereo down to 80kbps Mono for Planet Rock and 64kbps Mono for Absolute 80s. So much for the CD quality that DAB will bring that was originally advertised when DAB was launched.
Currently doing a history timeline of rock, intermingled with news reports and adverts from that time.
Just had ACDC with Highway to hell followed by a news report on Bon Scott's death, followed by report on John Lennon's death. Then into Motörhead and Ace of Spades.
Just had ACDC with Highway to hell followed by a news report on Bon Scott's death, followed by report on John Lennon's death. Then into Motörhead and Ace of Spades.
Edited by Russ35 on Sunday 16th June 21:53
Really missing Kerrang, wasn't always great and Kate Lawler was truly terrible but Planet Rock makes me miss Kerrang a hell of a lot more than I thought I would. Might invest in a DAB radio to get this and Kerrang in the car. Planet Rock seems to be aimed at a much older age group, "where rock goes to die" would be a much more appropriate tag line.
Subbeh said:
Really missing Kerrang, wasn't always great and Kate Lawler was truly terrible but Planet Rock makes me miss Kerrang a hell of a lot more than I thought I would. Might invest in a DAB radio to get this and Kerrang in the car. Planet Rock seems to be aimed at a much older age group, "where rock goes to die" would be a much more appropriate tag line.
Never really got into kerrang radio after they started to play indie rock and oasis , it`s a metal/rock station meant to be. Grumpy old metalhead alertSubbeh said:
Planet Rock seems to be aimed at a much older age group, "where rock goes to die" would be a much more appropriate tag line.
I read this thread with interest, I've never heard of TeamRock, and I was thinking "I quite like PR. Why have these guys got a downer on it?".Then I got to this post, and I realised why
Gaspode said:
Subbeh said:
Planet Rock seems to be aimed at a much older age group, "where rock goes to die" would be a much more appropriate tag line.
I read this thread with interest, I've never heard of TeamRock, and I was thinking "I quite like PR. Why have these guys got a downer on it?".Then I got to this post, and I realised why
Thanks, I'd never heard of this one before but I've just found it on http://www.teamrockradio.com/# and I'm listening to it now. I'm hoping it turns out to be a good one in the long term
ETA
OMG! It's crap!!!
There's just been a bloke who kept on and on talking about Twitter and Facebook then he tried to play a record and when it started he stopped it and started shouting "grey, grey, grey!"
Why doesn't he shut up and play some music???
I've gone back to Last.FM, there are no DJs there to spoil things.
ETA
OMG! It's crap!!!
There's just been a bloke who kept on and on talking about Twitter and Facebook then he tried to play a record and when it started he stopped it and started shouting "grey, grey, grey!"
Why doesn't he shut up and play some music???
I've gone back to Last.FM, there are no DJs there to spoil things.
Edited by Monty Zoomer on Friday 21st June 16:47
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