[Dixielandjazz] Sad news

[Marek Boym]

Hello Brian,
Remember Jazz for the Asking?
For years, I used to play truant to work and go out with mu transistor
radio to listen to it.  It was mostly, although not entirely, OKOM.
Then Peter Clayton was taken ill and passed away, Digby Fairweather
took over for a while, but eventually the programme was given to
Malcolm Laycock.  Laycock turned it into a non-jazz (i.e. - "modern")
programme, and within a short time the programme died.
Cheers

On 12/02/2008, Brian Harvey <brer.rabbit at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
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> 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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