DAB & theJazz
DAB certainly hasn't gone the way it was meant to, poor quality sound, expensive hardware, and an apparent failure to get into the in-car market. BUT, I wouldn't be without my DAB tuner. Why? I live in North London, capital of pirate radio, (big shout going out to all you pirate DJs), and DAB has allowed me to listen without interference to every station I want to.
theJazz seemed to have done everything possible that would allow a jazz based station to survive. An easy-listening week-day schedule, but keeping within what all jazz listeners would recognise as jazz, and a more specialist weekend schedule. Programmes like "The Jazz Jury" and "The Cutting Edge" are simply not available on any UK broadcast stations, (if anyone know of internet radio I could listen to, please tell me). I find it astonishing that DJ's such as Helen Mayhew and Mike Chadwick are going to be without a platform. 6Music could widen it's rock based horizons a bit.
Shame on GCap for pulling the plug so early.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
