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Gary
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 Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 11:16 am Post subject: Satellite radio- is it all over? |
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With stations like Q, Heat, The Hits and others having left satellite is it in terminal decline.
Perhaps the success of internet radio and the push towards DAB there is simply not enough room for another platform.
I wonder how many radio stations will be broadcasting from satellite in 12 months time.
The question must also be asked about Freeview radio.
I sincerely hope sat radio continues, but the doubts are there.
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David
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| Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 12:26 pm Post subject: Re: Satellite radio- is it all over? |
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| Gary wrote: | With stations like Q, Heat, The Hits and others having left satellite is it in terminal decline.
Perhaps the success of internet radio and the push towards DAB there is simply not enough room for another platform.
I wonder how many radio stations will be broadcasting from satellite in 12 months time.
The question must also be asked about Freeview radio.
I sincerely hope sat radio continues, but the doubts are there.
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I have to be honest and say that I haven't listened to any radio on Sky for months. I wouldn't miss it if it wasn't there. I do use Freeview radio occassionally via the TV in the caravan.
I can get the same stuff via the wi-fi, PC, DAB & of course AM/FM.
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suffolkblue
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| Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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| yep agreed northsea i cant see the point in having the tv on to listen to the radio to me it never made any sense so i whould not miss it but of course some people whould.I whould rather some of the stations go onto dab then i whould listen but of course there whould need to be more space avaliable. |
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Joe Valleyboy
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| Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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| suffolkblue wrote: | | yep agreed northsea i cant see the point in having the tv on to listen to the radio to me it never made any sense so i whould not miss it but of course some people whould.I whould rather some of the stations go onto dab then i whould listen but of course there whould need to be more space avaliable. |
I would rather listen to radio via satellite than any other medium even when the stations are available on DAB or FM. The signal is hiss free and the bit rates are very much higher thus giving a far better listening experience and though many TV's have far better speaker systems than radios I like many others feed the sound through a hi-fi system for the perfect sound and the TV switched off. I wouldn't fear too much for satellite radio as even a seasoned and enthusiastic listener like me thought that there were some stations on there that wouldn't be pulling very many listeners and the stations that have been removed fall into this category. If you listen to Gold or Magic you won't have to listen for too long to hear someone has contacted the station from outside their broadcast area - and they most certainly are listening via satelitte, cable or Freeview .
The so-called popularity of on-line listening is a bit dubious at the moment, as a quick straw poll I have many friends who listen to radio mainly fm but also via cable, satellite and freeview but none of them listen on-line. The problem with the internet is that a few posts supporting wi-fi radio seems like a huge crowd.
Radio Caroline and Solar Radio as well as Starpoint radio sing the praises of satellite radio to reach a wide audience economically. |
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Gary
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| Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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Fair comment Joe and welcome to the forum. Like yourself I've been a satellite radio enthusiast for a while, I remember listening to R.Northsea at 1 degW and 10 Gold at 13 East etc all in the analogue days.
I always thought satellite radio was the way forward but I became quite disillusioned when Bauer pulled the plug on a number of their sat stations and started to be pessimistic about the future.
Haven't listened to satradio for a while now so pleased to hear listeners are contacting the various stations from those platforms.
Perhaps all is far from lost, thanks for the info.
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suffolkblue
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| i like the point that joe made but gold and magic etc are on dab so they may be contacting them from dab rather than sat.But i dare say sat will be around for a while. |
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Hardly relevent, as it's been unused since 17th Oct last year, but I happened to notice last week that the LCN labled Big L has been removed. Not replaced with a OneGold either, as far as I can see.
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