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This is actually the 3rd version of the name Thames Radio to broadcast to London!
As well as the old 107.8 Thames Radio (Thames FM) from South West London, there was a 70's pirate station that used the Thames Radio name in London and also the great 90.2 Thameside Radio! |
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A decent schedule with well known names from the London Capital heydays or other well known names from the London radio past have pottential to becomes a nice station, also with a decent playlist of music.
I hope they getting their act together just in time for launch on sunday. So this is not promising and hopefull so far... |
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A decent schedule with well known names from the London Capital heydays or other well known names from the London radio past have pottential to becomes a nice station, also with a decent playlist of music.
I hope they getting their act together just in time for launch on sunday. So this is not promising and hopefull so far... 6am Neil Fox 10am Pat Sharp 1pm Mick Brown 4pm David Jensen 7pm Dean Martin 10pm Eamonn Kelly Now that would make a great line up, if they could persuade Chris Tarrant to do weekend mornings as well, even better and Tony Blackburn on weekend Breakfast |
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Ideally Monday to Friday
6am Neil Fox 10am Pat Sharp 1pm Mick Brown 4pm David Jensen 7pm Dean Martin 10pm Eamonn Kelly Now that would make a great line up, if they could persuade Chris Tarrant to do weekend mornings as well, even better and Tony Blackburn on weekend Breakfast |
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Is this the DAB+ station London 2 advertised for? If not, what bite rate can we expect and what is currently available.
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I wonder if this station is actually in London based studio's, because it's another sister station from another station in the county. So it could be that it all comes from another town and it's fully automatic and VT radio...
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I wonder if this station is actually in London based studio's, because it's another sister station from another station in the county. So it could be that it all comes from another town and it's fully automatic and VT radio...
http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...-magic-capital Sharp said: “For me, being on air once more at a station that will live and breathe London, could actually cap it all. Patman is getting set to play on the Thames again.” Seems to indicate he might be live but also could be VT ed? Will be in the same DAB/online market as Gold, Wireless, Golden and Eagle oldies! |
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Brilliant news. I wonder who else will join? Tony Blackburn? Paul Hollins,? Few females? Couple of celebrities? A lot of ex capital are on Smooth and Magic now.
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Where do you suggest they will get the money from for that on a digital only local station?
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Pat Sharp got all those London hits.
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Ideally Monday to Friday
6am Neil Fox 10am Pat Sharp 1pm Mick Brown 4pm David Jensen 7pm Dean Martin 10pm Eamonn Kelly Tony Blackburn does not have a show on terrestrial radio in London but his Bauer City network show can be heard online. |
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steve penks wind up show is always available ....most of his wind ups are from his capital days
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Processing on their stream is very weak and flat though. I hope they fix that. And still a lot of zero's in the format, where they claim playing 70's, 80's and 90's. If it's once an hour ok, but I hear a lot.
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have they launched or still testing?
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have they launched or still testing?
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Recreate the Capital feeling from the 80's and 90's. They need the same American voice-over guy they using in the early 90's and all those DVI's and laser effects. What a great imaging that was! Here's an example:
http://www.aircheckdownloads.com/cap...liams_1191.mp3 |
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That's it ! I can't listen to this station now if they are going to break the format & play a record from one year out of the format years ! 😂
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It's current output isn't that dissimilar to Magic. When Tracey Chapman and Fast Car started, I had to confirm the station by looking at the stream name!
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It's not sounding 'up', it's very medium/soft driven radio music wise. It reminds me more of another Smooth/Magic clone than a Capital (from the 80's and 90's) revival. For real; if you want hear the old Capital tune in to Smooth Radio or Magic the names are there music wise not offcourse.
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Katie Perry Firework on now how's that 80s, 80s, 90s?
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The station says it is bringing back the heyday of Capital Radio in the 80s and 90s.
There are several new popular songs which could fit the era so why not play them and broaden the listening base to bring in good ad revenue?
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Another station playing Red Hot Chilli Pepers...from the zero's!!
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I could name a few but they are on the radio at present
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Neil only started out at weekends then moved to weekdays on capital
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Available on DAB from Sunday when the station launches. At the moment it's testing online.
I think people should wait for it to launch before knocking the music and output quality |
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yet another station playing the same tired old rubbish
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