Loss of Planet Rock for many areas of the country

Hopeless123

pogofish wrote: »

Also when doing this, I found quite a few apps for more online Rock stations, some are atrocious/vey poor sound quality but a few look/sound positive, so PR may be shooting themselves in the foot with the retune as listeners find more competition.

Yep, that was one of my points to Bauer, if people are forced to listen online or through mobile apps then why not listen to stations that don't have advertising!

No unlimited broadband or mobile data here, so it's gone altogether for me:-(

My main point of posting it here was to make the point that people have paid out £100s for DAB radios with no clue this would happen after 16 years! We got 6 weeks' notice :-(

Still annoyed, still campaigning!

Jan

pogofish

Yup - keep at them. Thanks!

NeverInDebt

Must admit I never listened to planet rock but I am same position as you with Absolute 80's cant get the new revised station since they moved frequency a few days ago and can only Absolute 80's old and its repeated songs. I listened most days to it.

I sign your petition anyway

BargainGalore

Its all down to the moving multiplex D2 rather than previously
multiplex D1. Not all transmitters have got D2 yet which is a shame my own area suppose to have it but I also dont get the new channels either this suppose open up I think a further 10 digital channels on the new muliplex

Hopeless123

BargainGalore wrote: »

Its all down to the moving multiplex D2 rather than previously
multiplex D1. Not all transmitters have got D2 yet which is a shame my own area suppose to have it but I also dont get the new channels either this suppose open up I think a further 10 digital channels on the new muliplex

Hi, if you're supposed to get the new channels you'll need to do a full factory reset on your radio or try to manually tune to channel 11A

I've been told by Bauer that there are no plans to infill the current (large) missing areas, although I've seen a few snippets of info that say Aberdeen has been applied for. That may have been shelved though or the Bauer Communications staff don't know what they're talking about!!

molerat

I have given up with DAB at home as I can only receive the BBC National mux. Driving around town I get variable reception on D1 Nat and Local, totally unworkable. Appallingly mismanaged system.

The Jan 2015 document gives better coverage from mid 2016 - well we are pretty much there now and no dates seem to have been published. Even the coverage come "switchover" is going to nowhere near match FM in this area.