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LBC dropped Glasgow today
davemcwish
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with the inane Nick Ferrari message saying it will be dropped and promoting their 'mobile app which is even better' (TuneIn is better).
Bah!
Bah!
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davemcwish
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But won't be long before Scotland gets Global's top brand Heart.
I do to some extent but not all of the presenters ( incl. Nick Ferrari) appeal. Still better than Radio S***e Live (from Salford).
I actually live in a London borough but travel here regularly.
@hanssolo - The misses will be pleased as Heart is all she listens to.
@BMR - I agree they seem to pick a National story and say "<national news story is this> but what does it mean for London. Give me a call on...email.....twit tweet.....". Often though they just seem to be disparate for someone/anyone to ring in to fill some air tim.
In considering getting a clockradio and wont bother with dab if LBC is going in this area.
LBC is not a perfect station, but it's a welcome commercial talk alternative to the BBC. I'm not in the least bit interested in sport so TalkSport is not for me.
So, yes, it'll be gone from Cardiff too.
They have already decided that it's a London station. It's definitely not going national, although they are not going to turn away people outside the capital who are listening to their shows (and adverts).
From next year LBC will be partnering with the new London Live TV station to share content, and next month they are hosting a Boris Johnson Q and A session which is of little interest to people living outside London.
Internet = LBC
Satellite = LBC
Cable TV should have LBC. It does in my area.
The top one it'll be for my through the night fix, dont have the other two in the bedroom!
The other radio apps I have used have never just cut out at all, actually, even using the LBC stream. It takes a special kind of talent to make something so poor
Video sender or a Sky Gnome will give you what you want. Shame the latter are now 2nd hand only.
Any ideas what is going on here? There is absolutely no alternative as far as I'm concerned. I tried 5 Live this morning but even 10 minutes discussing sport is 10 minutes too much for me.
http://www.lbc.co.uk/'how-to-listen-to-lbc-fm-digital-radio-tv-online-mobile-13434
it's even available in Glasgow & Edinburgh
"On Digital Radio
Listen to LBC in crystal clear clarity on your Digital Radio from any of the places in pink in the map on the right, plus you can now listen in Glasgow and Edinburgh."
Not working in my part of Glasgow...
Notice on Wohnort Maybe the potential ad revenue outside of London to so few listeners was not enough to meet the local DAB transmission costs, and like Talk 107 FM Edinburgh, talk radio outside London is not viable
If the Glasgow DAB barker only mentions the internet app, would not be surprised when Global review the Sky EPG after changes with the GMG takeover LBC might be dropped?
If you have freesat and dont want to manual set up go into start menu and type in a London postcode ..that will send you to all London tv and radio stations ....when you finish listening put your own postcode back in ...you will pick up LBC 1152 and BBC Radio London that way as well:eek:
They seem to be saying two things: they're removing LBC from the Glasgow multiplex now, and they'll be removing their services from the Central Scotland multiplex in the future. The implication is that the two things are connected, but unless they say how, it's rather an unhelpful statement.
Except LBC was on Glasgow, a local multiplex. So where's this "commitment to local and national DAB services"?
http://radiotoday.co.uk/2012/09/regional-mxr-digital-multiplexes-to-close/ So they might be moving Capital, Choice ,XFM and Heart etc from the UTV owned regional mux to the Bauer local muxes, maybe with a cost saving, but have to drop LBC to fit the stations in?
As the UTV Switch mux will be virtually empty, except for BBC RNanGaidheal, Real and Kerrang, if they also move or close, UTV can potentially save money by closing the regional mux as they have no stations of their own on it.
Although UTV Switch are still advertising space on the mux? (perhaps there has been no new interested stations?)
http://www.utvdab.co.uk/opportunities.asp?id=100096
LBC's initial statement didn't make much sense although the quotes provided by hannsolo above make it a bit clearer. I guess that they've got also some market research that says that they're not that popular in Scotland anyway.
...which is usually done something like Menu > Add non-Freesat channels and plugging in the variables for frequency, symbol rate and polarisation which are 11222, 27500 and H which will get both LBC and LBC News. It might be worth their while joining Freesat as it's relatively cheap unlike terrestrial broadcasting modes, i.e. Freeview and DAB.