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New Jazz Radio Station in UK

Some great news for fans of jazz in the UK, it would appear that the people who turned classical music into something people actually wanted to listen to are about to take up the option for a national jazz station on digital radio

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The following is an excerpt from a piece that jazz stalwart Digby Fairweather has written for the Musicians Union magazine.

“A few weeks ago OFCOM - the authority for independent radio - authorized eight new DAB stations with a recommendation that one such channel should cover jazz music properly. DAB, just in case you haven’t heard yet, is Digital Audio Broadcasting; the medium which has been called the re-birth of radio.

“Pop into Curry’s Smith’s or any of the other high street stores who are being over-run with requests for the neat little radio receivers that pick up DAB station and you’ll have access to hundreds of new bubbling radio channels answering just about every broadcasting need! Well anyhow - almost over night - Classic FM, under the aegis of its governing body Gcap took up the jazz option.”

Hurray! We will await anxiously the start of broadcasting, thought to be later this year.



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