Website now back on line and Facebook page revised to say launch date I will be soon
Hopefully. I do wonder if they might be better going for a Christmas launch where the football calendar is busy and people maybe have time and awareness to try out a new service like this. Slow news, more press coverage etc.
Hopefully. I do wonder if they might be better going for a Christmas launch where the football calendar is busy and people maybe have time and awareness to try out a new service like this. Slow news, more press coverage etc.
Seven weeks today will be Christmas Eve!
After Christmas, there is a SPFL football shutdown for a few weeks usually because of the bad January weather.
Depends of what kind sports output the station intends to have? Football is well covered on BBC Radio Scotland, Clyde 1 and the Your Radio-Central-Wave 102 programmes.
We are now into week 7 of Test transmissions with the "Test" label still being displayed.
Depends of what kind sports output the station intends to have? Football is well covered on BBC Radio Scotland, Clyde 1 and the Your Radio-Central-Wave 102 programmes..
I disagree with this. Other stations offer very good football content but only at very specific times of the day and week.
All the while people talk and think about football issues with a fervour only matched by the death of Princess Diana in the immediate aftermath. I believe there is huge untapped demand for such radio content and if a station like Eklipse made it its meat and veg it could do very well.
Imagine, say, Bill Young on midmorning on the day after that last Celtic CL game when Scott Brown was sent off, fielding calls, texts etc on whether it was harsh or not. While everyone else was just playing tunes, this would be a station absolutely talking about what everyone else was talking about.
Relatively speaking, other stations have football no more well covered than the pre R1 Light Programme had 60s chart pop well covered and it is this pent up demand I imagine Eklipse aim to fill.
5 Live and TalkSport already do this on a UK level but there is little focus on Scotland so a station doing that up here with a bit of music to help the thing is a cracker of an idea..
I have to agree. Eklipse could be like a scottish talksport with some music in between to break the conversation. Whenever I listen to Clyde1 superscoreboard, I dip into Central and Bbc Scot also like am sure others do. Its a bummer that they are all on around same time. With Eklipse, it will be goox to listen into sports talk during the day with a scottish flavour.... if it ever gets started lol.
Don't really make this sort of stuff public, but the reason for the delayed launch for Eklipse Sports is primarily a very sad one in that one of the major investors in the station sadly passed away suddenly two weeks ago and we are in bits here.
It seems likely that the executors of her estate will continue the investment in the station, but we won't know for a couple of weeks or so. It does seem unlikely that we will launch our full service before Xmas though.
We'd even sorted out the problems with the studio lease before this happened and things were on track for a soft launch by the end of this month.
Anyway just thought I'd let this info out into the general realm,before all the runours started flying around about how the station wasn't going to happen etc.
It would be good to get a dance station on DAB after Radio Frequency was shut down in Leeds due to it been an illegal pirate station. The only one that plays dance music that I know now on FM and DAB in UK is Gaydio 88.4 in Manchester and DAB London and Brighton. I also heard that there was another one that had no licence in York called Equinox.
Besides Capital Xtra and Kiss, There is Juice FM Brighton (Underground/Soulful dance music), Fire Radio and Juice FM Liverpool (which sounds like Galaxy 105 - plays the big room anthems on weekends and has an old skool show on Sunday nights).
Scotland is also calling out for a dance station. In Demand Dance on Bauer FM stations isn't enough! I'm excluding Capital as they only do chart remixes and No longer provide the real specialist stuff after midnight on weekends.
Surprised that Switchdigital have kept the "Test" label running on the Central Scotland DAB mux for close on 4 months now.
The music loop has not been updated and for a while there was a fault in that two songs were being simultaneously and sometimes there is silence.
Funding is the issue obviously, from a September launch, then announced as October, then winter, then the death of an investor and now a spring launch. Maybe in time for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow during July 2014.
Funding is the issue obviously, from a September launch, then announced as October, then winter, then the death of an investor and now a spring launch. Maybe in time for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow during July 2014.
Spencer's original plan with his 'Eklipse' concept had he won the Lanarkshire licence was to launch literally during the solar eclipse of Summer 1999, generating it a lot of unpaid for publicity.
So in that sense there would be a sort of poetic symmetry to Eklipse Sports Radio launching about the time of the commonwealth games and kicking on from there. Beyond that I can't really say whether it would be a good idea or not given that the games and other summer sporting events are really ones of international interest covered amply elsewhere.
A 'Spring launch' isn't really ideal though for a station aiming to superserve the audience with Scottish sports content as that's when the likely meat and veg of the station, the Scottish football season, ends. It is already petering out with Celtic and Rangers having their foregone conclusion leagues sewn up and other than that it's just the other two cups. We are at the nadir of the 'lack of Rangers effect' in the SPFL- a bad time for Eklipse to launch when excitement is at a minimum.
It will be different next season with the fair possibility of Celtic back in the champ league or at least Europa and a likely genuine dogfight between Rangers and Hearts (assuming they are relegated) for promotion.
This July- a full year after the intended launch-makes more sense to me.
Ta for update- had forgot about- will be looking forward to launch.
Be interested to see what presenter and program line up they have.
And how they compete against Clyde,BBC Scot+Your/Central at the 6pm slot.
The countdown clock by my calculations seems to indicate a launch shortly before 7am next Tuesday morning. 4 days 1 hour and 40 mins at the time of writing.
But hey ho, it still has 'On The Border' by Al Stewart on half hour rotation so any station that does that is alright by me.
By my admittedly unreliable eyes the countdown clock on the website appears to have stopped at zero.
I DO notice that the site now contains all the SPL results so far this season, including last night's. Whether this is a recent add or not I cannot say.
Another old Q staple on the tunes loop, this time 'Life's Been Good' by Joe Walsh which was a regular on the 96.3 QFM relaunch.
By my admittedly unreliable eyes the countdown clock on the website appears to have stopped at zero.
I DO notice that the site now contains all the SPL results so far this season, including last night's. Whether this is a recent add or not I cannot say.
Another old Q staple on the tunes loop, this time 'Life's Been Good' by Joe Walsh which was a regular on the 96.3 QFM relaunch.
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Hopefully. I do wonder if they might be better going for a Christmas launch where the football calendar is busy and people maybe have time and awareness to try out a new service like this. Slow news, more press coverage etc.
Seven weeks today will be Christmas Eve!
After Christmas, there is a SPFL football shutdown for a few weeks usually because of the bad January weather.
Depends of what kind sports output the station intends to have? Football is well covered on BBC Radio Scotland, Clyde 1 and the Your Radio-Central-Wave 102 programmes.
We are now into week 7 of Test transmissions with the "Test" label still being displayed.
I disagree with this. Other stations offer very good football content but only at very specific times of the day and week.
All the while people talk and think about football issues with a fervour only matched by the death of Princess Diana in the immediate aftermath. I believe there is huge untapped demand for such radio content and if a station like Eklipse made it its meat and veg it could do very well.
Imagine, say, Bill Young on midmorning on the day after that last Celtic CL game when Scott Brown was sent off, fielding calls, texts etc on whether it was harsh or not. While everyone else was just playing tunes, this would be a station absolutely talking about what everyone else was talking about.
Relatively speaking, other stations have football no more well covered than the pre R1 Light Programme had 60s chart pop well covered and it is this pent up demand I imagine Eklipse aim to fill.
5 Live and TalkSport already do this on a UK level but there is little focus on Scotland so a station doing that up here with a bit of music to help the thing is a cracker of an idea..
If Eklipse don't make it, someone else will do it. It's that good an idea. But fingers crossed that Eklipse get to air and make the obvious happen.
It seems likely that the executors of her estate will continue the investment in the station, but we won't know for a couple of weeks or so. It does seem unlikely that we will launch our full service before Xmas though.
We'd even sorted out the problems with the studio lease before this happened and things were on track for a soft launch by the end of this month.
Anyway just thought I'd let this info out into the general realm,before all the runours started flying around about how the station wasn't going to happen etc.
Thank you for posting and keeping us informed.
by then we will have magic and kisstory and maybe even talk of d2.
Besides Capital Xtra and Kiss, There is Juice FM Brighton (Underground/Soulful dance music), Fire Radio and Juice FM Liverpool (which sounds like Galaxy 105 - plays the big room anthems on weekends and has an old skool show on Sunday nights).
Scotland is also calling out for a dance station. In Demand Dance on Bauer FM stations isn't enough! I'm excluding Capital as they only do chart remixes and No longer provide the real specialist stuff after midnight on weekends.
I can not find that ...
http://www.jemmtwo.com/
The music loop has not been updated and for a while there was a fault in that two songs were being simultaneously and sometimes there is silence.
Funding is the issue obviously, from a September launch, then announced as October, then winter, then the death of an investor and now a spring launch. Maybe in time for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow during July 2014.
Spencer's original plan with his 'Eklipse' concept had he won the Lanarkshire licence was to launch literally during the solar eclipse of Summer 1999, generating it a lot of unpaid for publicity.
So in that sense there would be a sort of poetic symmetry to Eklipse Sports Radio launching about the time of the commonwealth games and kicking on from there. Beyond that I can't really say whether it would be a good idea or not given that the games and other summer sporting events are really ones of international interest covered amply elsewhere.
A 'Spring launch' isn't really ideal though for a station aiming to superserve the audience with Scottish sports content as that's when the likely meat and veg of the station, the Scottish football season, ends. It is already petering out with Celtic and Rangers having their foregone conclusion leagues sewn up and other than that it's just the other two cups. We are at the nadir of the 'lack of Rangers effect' in the SPFL- a bad time for Eklipse to launch when excitement is at a minimum.
It will be different next season with the fair possibility of Celtic back in the champ league or at least Europa and a likely genuine dogfight between Rangers and Hearts (assuming they are relegated) for promotion.
This July- a full year after the intended launch-makes more sense to me.
There is a counter which suggests the launch will be in 13 days, which would make it on Saturday 1st February.
On DAB digital radio it is still labelled at "Test" transmitting at 80 kbts mono on the Central Scotland Regional mux.
Be interested to see what presenter and program line up they have.
And how they compete against Clyde,BBC Scot+Your/Central at the 6pm slot.
But hey ho, it still has 'On The Border' by Al Stewart on half hour rotation so any station that does that is alright by me.
Which would mean Saturday 1st February not Tuesday.
Ah OK....would have sworn that was a '4'. Pesky graphics. The 'days' countdown now looks like a '2' to me.
http://www.eklipsesportsradio.co.uk/
05 days 07 hours 58 minutes 33 seconds
Still showing "Test" on the display and transmitting at 80 kbts mono.
haven`t tuned in again on the hour to see if they have news every hour.
I DO notice that the site now contains all the SPL results so far this season, including last night's. Whether this is a recent add or not I cannot say.
Another old Q staple on the tunes loop, this time 'Life's Been Good' by Joe Walsh which was a regular on the 96.3 QFM relaunch.
1 Day 23 Hours and a few minutes to my eyes
Depends on where you look. On my PC the clock is set to zero but still counting down when I look on my ipad