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March 24, 2006 at 1:53 pm #1037355
Anyone listen to Galaxy? Unfortunately the tuner’s broken at the moment so I have no choice, and I’m not online at home so I can’t tune in to your shows.
Anyway, to the point. Does anyone find Dave Kelly and his sidekick (sounding like a cross between Zippy from Rainbow and Paul O’Grady) REALLY irritating, or is it just me getting old? The totally inane noises and talking over each other that pass as humour do nothing for me (Sheila and Bruce, for example) other from wind me up. Also, they seem to be trying to make it acceptable to say knob/knobhead on the radio at a relatively early time in the evening. I think I’m as broad-minded as the next person, but when I listen to some youngsters hardly able to string a sentence together in general conversation without resorting to expletives, it does make me wonder.
If anyone agrees, can we start a petition to get rid of him?March 24, 2006 at 2:05 pm #1069026never heard of Galaxy! sounds like a Northern brand?!
I know exactly what you mean though
TBH all commercial radio stations (apart from a few specialist shows on smaller community stations whch have managed to get a license) are the same old shite.
The “presenters” are glorified call centre operators nowadays and the music is streamed down a comms line from a central computer which is locked down with passwords so they can’t select their own tunes
the program formats are the same formula everywhere
they are competing with stacks of others to try and scrape little bits of work like (if they are lucky) kids TV/cable channels or the better slots like drivetime/morning crew
most of them try tired comedy routines which were getting old in the 1980s (standard double act + sidekick or the “odd couple” they tend to pick for morning crews with the lad/ladette style gender-based humour)
I don’t even bother with radio apart from specialist music shows and pirates. this doesn’t mean the presenters need to be humourless or have MC;s chatting shit lyrics about violence and guns – (there was this old skool station somewhere in Essex I was listening to a few weeks ago whilst travelling between Reading and Ipswich, now that MC was well funny like the old skool days, more “cheeky cockney” type banter)
March 24, 2006 at 2:16 pm #1069029Anonymous
i find 99% of radio really grating and horrifically samey. i dunno who dav eis, but i am pretty sure he is an irritating prick, because most radio presenters are. just goes to show how open minded i am :rolleyes:
March 24, 2006 at 2:49 pm #1069030Galaxy started out as Kiss FM, an offshoot (I seem to remember) of Kiss down in London. It was then sold to some media giant, whose name I forget, and immediately the quality nosedived, becoming far more commercial. The funny thing is, just before Kiss aired, there were three pirate stations I could tune-in to: the excellent Foulmouth FM, Dance FM (which was a bit commercial during the day but came alive at night, and Joy FM, which tended more towards US garage/vocal house. They were all good, and I miss them terribly. I remember a storming set by the Propellorheads sometime over Christmas ’96 just before they all went off air and Kiss started. I presume this was deliberate sabotage by the powers that be so that the newly licensed Kiss could broadcast without competition.
Foulmouth was absolutely banging techno most of the time.
I’d love to know if any of the guys are still spreading the vibe. Before the tuner broke, I wasn’t able to get any pirates up here. Do you think I may have some joy with a digital radio?
Brings tears to my ears just writing about those stations.March 24, 2006 at 3:02 pm #1069028Maidstone in Kent had some pirate stations “u dont know what u got till its gone!”
Miss them… Any 1 know any around Brighton? :toxic: :toxic: :toxic: :toxic:
March 26, 2006 at 9:20 pm #1069031any one know what happened to 87.5 fm? it appeared just before xmas and stopped after new years. sounded like pirate or low bugdet, but had some good local djs playin good tunes. only radio station ive ever listened to
March 27, 2006 at 3:10 pm #1069027I think it was EMAP who took over and commercialised Kiss FM and its Northern brands. There is indeed a deliberate plan by Ofcom to fill up odd spaces on the FM band from 105-108 MhZ with legal stations to prevent pirates making use of them; although the govt only have themselves to blame as they were so slow on licensing legit community stations and still create way too much bureaucracy and pander too much to the big media groups.
Squat Monkey wrote:any one know what happened to 87.5 fm? it appeared just before xmas and stopped after new years. sounded like pirate or low bugdet, but had some good local djs playin good tunes. only radio station ive ever listened toas far as I am aware 87.5 is not legally allocated in Britain for broadcasting (the frequency still allocated for two way radios once used by the gas and electric companies) so anything found there is definitely a pirate.
There were a number of stations using that frequency in the Oxon and Berks areas – I know some of the DJs from at least one of them.
Although the frequencies used by pirates in most areas stay the same, Sometimes ofcom confiscate transmitters, or due to internal politics and organisational problems (just like party crews) stations fold or merge with other and change frequencies.
October 30, 2007 at 4:46 pm #1069033Andy Why? wrote:Galaxy started out as Kiss FM, an offshoot (I seem to remember) of Kiss down in London. It was then sold to some media giant, whose name I forget, and immediately the quality nosedived, becoming far more commercial. The funny thing is, just before Kiss aired, there were three pirate stations I could tune-in to: the excellent Foulmouth FM, Dance FM (which was a bit commercial during the day but came alive at night, and Joy FM, which tended more towards US garage/vocal house. They were all good, and I miss them terribly. I remember a storming set by the Propellorheads sometime over Christmas ’96 just before they all went off air and Kiss started. I presume this was deliberate sabotage by the powers that be so that the newly licensed Kiss could broadcast without competition.
Foulmouth was absolutely banging techno most of the time.
I’d love to know if any of the guys are still spreading the vibe. Before the tuner broke, I wasn’t able to get any pirates up here. Do you think I may have some joy with a digital radio?
Brings tears to my ears just writing about those stations.Hey mate – Foulmouth FM – was the station a couple of my mates set up back in sheffield in late 1994 – we started out with just 5 of us DJ’ing with mixtapes playing through the night to keep it 24 hour ! The original crew was Deedah Tel, The Astronomer, The Chocolate Eclair, DJ Dome and DJ TinTin !!! plus various guests and hangers on – within a year we had a full rota of DJ’s queing up to play – did a few fundraisers down at the everyones centre on broadfield road – keeping one step ahead of the DTI by regularly changing studio location etc ….. those were the days – listen or it’s yer legs !!
October 30, 2007 at 5:59 pm #1069032General Lighting wrote:never heard of Galaxy! sounds like a Northern brand?!Yeah it is, we get it up in Yorkshire only I think. It’s fucking embarrasing, Radio 1 plays less mainstream dance than it does, and that’s saying something.
“Galaxy: number 1 for dance and RnB” apparently!
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