Anyone listening to TeamRock Radio on DAB?

Anyone listening to TeamRock Radio on DAB?

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S7Paul

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2,103 posts

233 months

Friday 14th June 2013
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I stumbled across it by accident a couple of weeks ago - just playing continuous music at the moment but launches formally this Sunday night. Judging by what they've been playing so far, it should wipe the floor with Planet Rock & Kerrang.

MartinDB

120 posts

262 months

Friday 14th June 2013
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Yep, Planet rock doesn't get a look in at all in the car anymore. Once they've launched, my clock radio will get switched over too.

mizx

1,569 posts

184 months

Friday 14th June 2013
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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 biggrin). I'd be happy with the test run continuing, although the variation in genre/sub-genre is 'interesting' at times.

Athlon

4,998 posts

205 months

Saturday 15th June 2013
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A lot of the jocks are ex Real XS in Manchester, Moose, Rachel and Dewsbury all left XS to get this station up and running.

tdm34

7,365 posts

209 months

Saturday 15th June 2013
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Just found it on the Shop Sonos System, does anyone know the multiplex ID
that it's on?

And it does sound rather good I have to say.....

Russ35

2,491 posts

238 months

Sunday 16th June 2013
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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.








Russ35

2,491 posts

238 months

Sunday 16th June 2013
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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.





Edited by Russ35 on Sunday 16th June 21:53

franki68

10,330 posts

220 months

Monday 17th June 2013
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Athlon said:
A lot of the jocks are ex Real XS in Manchester, Moose, Rachel and Dewsbury all left XS to get this station up and running.
Wondered where they went to,dewsbury and Sweeney were a great double act .
So this is a dab only station ?

Pothole

34,367 posts

281 months

Monday 17th June 2013
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switched it on now. Lack of ads is a draw, but I love Alice at Night on PR

scoobyfreak10

164 posts

132 months

Monday 17th June 2013
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just put this on and WOW a proper rock station at last !!! .............Thanks for the heads up

lord summerisle

8,138 posts

224 months

Monday 17th June 2013
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Athlon said:
A lot of the jocks are ex Real XS in Manchester, Moose, Rachel and Dewsbury all left XS to get this station up and running.
Along with Ted from the scotland station, plus hte Scotland Execs who were made redundant back when it went from Rock Radio to the Real XS brand

Subbeh

139 posts

173 months

Tuesday 18th June 2013
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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.

Catduck

70 posts

169 months

Wednesday 19th June 2013
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I accidently found this at work a good few weeks ago whilst looking for planet rock,
much prefer this but unfortunately being the minority at work it often gets turned off when they think it's too "heavy and loud" frown

scoobyfreak10

164 posts

132 months

Wednesday 19th June 2013
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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 alert

Gaspode

4,167 posts

195 months

Thursday 20th June 2013
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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 smile

mrmaggit

10,146 posts

247 months

Thursday 20th June 2013
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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 smile
Must admit I was thinking the same, but gave it a listen last night, and clicked it on this morning in preference to PR. Was wondering where some of the people that had left PR went to, and as I don't rate some of the newbies on there.......

Marty63

2,347 posts

173 months

Thursday 20th June 2013
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listened tonight just before 6 and the guy on seemed to prattle carp between tunes.

Poison Tom 96

2,098 posts

130 months

Friday 21st June 2013
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Got into it as they ran Download FM, and I liked it.

Listen to it online myself smile

Monty Zoomer

1,459 posts

156 months

Friday 21st June 2013
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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 smile

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

scoobyfreak10

164 posts

132 months

Friday 21st June 2013
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I have been listening to this all week and this has to be so far a really great station with a lot of Klassik trax and new metal to the mix ..... they even played slayerrrrrr this week ...... they rock in my book then good on them and hopefully here to stay