So whe can expect lots of VT's. I hope it are good VT's and sounding 'up and exiting' instead of easy and dry what most VT's sounds like these days.

Smaller towns?.... Nation is for the whole of South Wales and further a field on DAB, Radio Carms, Pembs and Ceredigion are for Counties

London is saturated with stations on FM and DAB, not taking in to account those around the edges of it, AND the fact Thames is DAB only

And internet.

If all the shows - including breakfast - are voice-tracked, I can't for the life of me fathom why they wouldn't put Foxy on breakfast. Which makes me think that breakfast might be live, as with Mellow Magic.

One slightly darker thought on all this - if Thames radio is remotely successful, it'll surely be grist to the mill of anyone arguing that locally-produced output is unnecessary for local radio in this day and age...

As it has a digital licence does not need local shows, but does have local traffic and kind of has local news via the Leeds news setup so will almost meet the localness requirement set by Meyers.

Yep - and I was also thinking of the recent Ofcom missive that suggested it's up for reconsidering whether locally-produced content is necessary for local FM licences.

I'd expect that to be popular with big groups looking to make big savings by closing down studios - and smaller groups for whom it would lighten the financial load. So, if they can point to a very local-sounding London station where none of the content - even the news - comes from the capital, that would definitely help their case.

I was in London yesterday so decided to have a listen. This explains the Yorkshire accent on the newsreader! It sounded a bit incongruous on what is being pitched as a very-London station.

No shortage of Yorkshire accents here in London!

I think the newsreaders being Leeds-based would only really be an issue if they mispronounced things (eg pronouncing Holborn "Hol-borne" or Streatham "Streeth-um") or underestimating the significance of things like transport disruption.

On the latter point, all the travel news I've heard so far focuses purely on the roads. I'm hoping that's just because public transport's been running fine whenever I've been listening. If not, that would be a significant oversight.

Today at 4pm Neil Fox. Live or not...that's the question...

I hope they turn the knob of the soundprocessing for real good audio on the stream.

I raised this very issue with them just now and got an immediate reply from Martin Mumford stating: "We've extended bulletins from this afternoon to include this."

There are 2 streams.
A 128k stereo & 48K AAC stream
I have been unable to find a listen button on the web site

The Listen Live button is at the right hand side near the top, at the end of the row of buttons reading Win News Traffic Advertise Games.

What's stranger is that if you put Thames Radio into Google, it doesn't find the web site for Thames Radio. It finds the Radio Today news story about Thames Radio, various other news stories, Heart, this site and Radiofeeds, but not the station itself.

They are using the new .London domain which might be useful if UK ceases to be, but the search enginges do not seem to recognise it yet?

Inkblot.
Thanks
Stupid B web site. I had to zoom out to see those features

Audio quality is still a mess online. Soft, louder, soft. Use compression! Also for that typical Capital sound.

Sounds great running through Breakaway Broadcast software then re-broadcast on FM

Yes I know, but it's Thames Radio their issue to fix that and let it sound perfectly with Breakaway, Stereotool or other streaming processing hard or software.

Not live!

Nope. Nice and lively first link, but not live.

Good to hear his old Bad Case of Loving You jingle again though.

Sounds like not as VT's, more recorded as live.

I'm guessing it's voice-tracked, as the levels on the last link were terrible - the intro of the song was at full volume, so you could barely hear him.

Yes, it's VT's I hear it now. What a deception, and sound is still terrible. You hear that perfectly with these VT's, it's not blending with the music. Louder music, softer presentation. A no go.

I agree. He was desperately trying to hit the vocal of Easy Lover, but the levels gave it away as being played out.

Levels sound better on the last link. Good to hear Foxy back on air, VT'd or not.

Headlines on the half-hour there - and very local, which is great to hear.

Clearly a few technical things to sort out (levels, back-to-back jingles), but all sounding quite promising so far.