[Dixielandjazz] Sad news

[Brian Harvey]

The British National commercial digital radio station TheJazz - which has
never been kind to OKOM - is to close by the end of March, less than a year
after its official launch. The closure is part of a £9m package of cuts
announced by the station's parent company. They claim that TheJazz proved to
be an instant hit, attracting more than 330,000 listeners in its first three
months. Rival non-commercial OKOM station - Brian Harvey's Hot Jazz
Channel - reaches around 250,000 every three months. But TheJazz chief
executive Fru Hazlitt said that digital audio broadcasting (DAB) wasn't an
economically viable platform, and that the company's future lay in broadband
and traditional FM stations. To soften the blow, TheJazz managing director
Darren Henley has revealed that jazz will be added to the remit of sister
station Classic FM.


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