RogerF Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 Really bad news, just in, is that theJazz, the UK's only digital jazz radio station is to close down. More here:- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7238444.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 I'm only an ocasional listener, say twice a week for an hour so but it's still verty bad news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 Never heard it - but bad news, nevertheless. Typical of the 'here today, gone tomorrow' nature of commercial backing for jazz in this country though. It was always thus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerF Posted February 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 (edited) this was the reply I received after I emailed them to voice my dismay... Dear Roger, Thank you for your support of theJazz over the past 15 months. We do understand how disappointed you must be because of the changes to our programmes that we announced today. We remain committed to supporting jazz music and the musicians who make it. From February 25, Classic FM will broadcast two hours of jazz music between midnight and 2am, seven days a week. This programme will be available on FM as well as DAB and will therefore reach a far wider audience. In addition, these programmes will be available to listen to any time of the day or night, up to seven days after broadcast via Classic FM’s listen again service. You can access this service online at www.classicfm.com/listenagain. We will also be adding a rolling jazz music stream to myclassicfm.com which will be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The service allows users to ban and rate tracks, giving them control over what they hear. I very much hope you will continue to listen to our jazz programming using one of these three options. Thank you for taking the trouble to get in touch. Kindest regards, Darren Henley Managing Director theJazz naturally I will be setting my alarm clock for around midnight to catch those two precious hours but really I'm not laughing - this is a real loss Edited February 11, 2008 by RogerF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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