{"id":300,"date":"2008-02-12T10:01:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T10:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/300"},"modified":"2014-04-17T10:56:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T09:56:54","slug":"not-only-the-jazz-but-planet-rock-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/300","title":{"rendered":"Not only &#8220;The Jazz&#8221; but &#8220;Planet Rock&#8221; to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/corporate.gcapmedia.com\/index.php?id=15&#038;entryId=94\">announcement<\/a> by the corporate suits describes them as &#8220;non core brands.&#8221; What on earth does than mean when they are in the radio business; what they mean is that there is not enough profit. I think they are very mistaken; DAB Radio is only just beginning to take off in a big way so they need to hang on for a bit. It takes a while for the market to go from niche to mainstream and, as portable radios die, they will be replaced by DAB now the price is right&mdash;that is unless all the broadcasters pull out.<\/p>\n<p>And this is only one day after I managed to figure out how to stream <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetrock.co.uk\/\">&#8220;Planet Rock&#8221;<\/a> to my music player. These stations don&#8217;t make it easy by not publishing their stream addresses; whizzy popup javascript windows are no good at all, nor is proprietary real-player format. Planet Rock is <a href=\"http:\/\/mediasrv-the.musicradio.com\/PlanetRock\"><code>http:\/\/mediasrv-the.musicradio.com\/PlanetRock<\/code><\/a> if you need to know.<\/p>\n<p>I had never heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-jazz.co.uk\/Default.asp\">&#8220;The Jazz&#8221;<\/a> but would have listened if I knew that a decent Jazz station existed, I tried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzfm.com\/\">&#8220;Jazz FM&#8221;<\/a> a while ago but that was feeble; perhaps I will have to give it another try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement by the corporate suits describes them as &#8220;non core brands.&#8221; What on earth does than mean when they are in the radio business; what they mean is that there is not enough profit. I think they are very mistaken; DAB Radio is only just beginning to take off in a big way so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}