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Wednesday 4th June 2008 PLANET ROCK has been SAVED !!!! Â An email has been sent from Planet Rock HQ, as follows: It's the news we've all been waiting for... We're pleased to bring you the news we have all been waiting for....
Further news has also been forthcoming about the consortium, called "Rock Show", behind the purchase, which can be found on various news websites as follows:  We are grateful to everyone concerned with the SPR campaign who has pledged to support THIS petition, signed the petition on the UK PM's website, bought car stickers, even printed out paper petitions to send in to the station - all showing their support. Likewise, we recognise everyone below who has left positive comments about the campaign, as well as visitors to the SPR website, both from UK as well as overseas: from USA to Brazil, from Iceland to South Africa, from Russia to India and from Japan to Australia.......TO ALL OF YOU....THANK YOU....your support has, I am sure, been a fundamental reason as to WHY Planet Rock has been saved....The sheer numbers of people getting involved has proven to us all that Rock music needs a dedicated 24/7 outlet allowing the music to be broadcast.  So, a BIG THANK YOU for everything !  We are optimistic that now that the station has been saved, that under the new ownership, it will be allowed to grow and prosper, whilst continuing to provide fantastic music via DAB, online and via satellite.  The back-story: It was announced on 11th Feb 2008, that GCap Media, (the owners of Planet Rock) were to CLOSE this radio station by the end of March 2008. This had been extended until the end of April, and subsequently, until the end of May 2008, pending negotiations to sell Planet Rock. (Update: They have now closed theJazz and will be handing back various local XFM licenses they hold, or selling them off). More info here (their Press Release, on their website) and here's some background stuff, regarding their reasons (not making enough profit), here (PDF): So, please SUPPORT this petition to show OUR support for this station, in the hope that we can impress upon someone to BUY it and keep it going. Feel free to cut and paste this exact code, to add a SAVE Planet Rock "banner advert" to your website: <a href="http://www.saveplanetrock.co.uk"><img src="http://www.saveplanetrock.co.uk/savePR.gif" alt="Save Planet Rock" />/a> You'll also find loads of stuff at our website: SAVE Planet Rock There is also a petition on the UK Prime Minister's website, where UK residents can pledge their support - over 1,000 have already - so please sign up over there as well !!   Thursday 29th May 2008 According to Brian May's blog, it would appear that a third party has now come forward and has secured a deal to buy Planet Rock. This automatically means that Brian May's consortium is no longer in the running to buy Planet Rock. We sincerely hope that something can be confirmed soon, as the deadline when Planet Rock is to close is tomorrow........... Saturday 24th May 2008 Wednesday 14th May 2008 A further short message from Brian May has been posted on his "soapbox": [quote] "PROGRESS IN SAVING PLANET ROCK ...." Just a quiet update. My partners and I, in the "Save Planet Rock" adventure, are getting close to an agreement with GCAP, and relations are cordial !!! It has been a much bigger set of variables to sort out than any of us realised - and even now I can't tell you that it's certain there will be a deal struck ... but the will is there. Thanks so much for your supportive messages ... I feel we may be about to enter the heart of a very passionate and thriving Rock Family. This is fascinating and challenging. Onwards !! cheers © brianmay.com [/quote] So, for now, we must remain patient and committed to supporting this, in the hope that a deal can be done. We're all with you on this Brian...!  Monday 12th May 2008 Sony Digital Station of the Year 2008 Planet Rock wins THREE Awards at the Sony Radio Awards ceremony !! The prestigious Gold Award for Digital Station of the Year 2008 was awarded to Planet Rock at Londons' Grosvenor House Hotel. The award was presented by Ron and Russell Mael ("Sparks") to Trevor White (and many of the Planet Rock staffers) who accepted the award most graciously. A Silver Award was won by Planet Rock presenter and musician FISH, in the category of "Music Broadcaster Award" while a Bronze Award went to Planet Rock in the category of Multiplatform Radio. So, THREE nominations and THREE awards.....!  Saturday 3rd May 2008 The following has been put on Brian May's website today..... (see here for original posting) [quote] MISSION TO SAVE PLANET ROCK In response to many of your kind enquiries .... yes, those few words on the Soapbox about Planet Rock DID lead to me getting involved in mounting a rescue operation to save the station. I can't tell you who I am 'in league' with, but I am part of a small group of people who have great hopes that we will succeed in taking over the station, and putting it on a firm footing, for the benefit of its growing audience. I regard Planet Rock as rather more than just a radio station - it is a symbol of free radio ... radio which is not run by large corporate organisations for the purpose of making tons of money, and has a free choice of what it plays. I'm not going to run down any particular radio station - this country has some talented and dedicated people working in music radio ... But I do feel that, for a healthy climate for music in this country, we need to allow small independent stations to exist alongside the huge FM giants. I listen to radio in my car, one of the few times I am 'in my own space' - and, for me, who grew up with Zeppelin, the Who, Hendrix, Traffic, AC/DC, Van Halen ... THE BEATLES ..... tell me, where can you hear music from these kinds of artists these days ? You'll have a hard job finding "Kashmir" flicking through the channels in the UK. DAB Radio has had a brave start, and can provide freedom from domination by commercially minded programming, but it might, at this point, slip between the cracks. I believe this cause is worth supporting ... and will be doing my best to put my money and expertise) where my mouth is ! We hope to be able to make an announcement soon. In the meantime, of you agree with me ... Demand your Planet Rock !! Demand your DAB !!!! Cheers © brianmay.com [/quote] So there you have it......! Let's keep our fingers crossed that Brian and his fellow investors can take over Planet Rock.  Friday 25th April 2008 OFFICIAL PLANET ROCK NEWS UPDATE We'd love to be able to announce that the deal to buy Planet Rock is all one and dusted but I'm afraid that we have to keep holding our breath for yet another month. The deadline for the sale completion has been extended until 30th May, while the interested parties continue their negotiations with GCap Media.  Thursday 10th April 2008 Planet Rock has scooped THREE nominations in the recently announced Sony Radio Academy Awards for 2008. More news from: Sony Radio Awards website More news from Planet Rock here Hopefully, this great news will help to ensure the continuance of Planet Rock, despite GCap's planned withdrawal from the digital radio business and the subsequent takeover of GCap by Global radio.....  Monday 31st March 2008 Global Radio offer to buy GCap Media for £375m has been unanimously accepted. What this means for Planet Rock is unclear at present - some say Planet Rock is excluded from the sale....so, we have to wait for clarification as to what will happen to Planet Rock, theJazz and the various XFM licences that GCap owns currently. Likewise, we'll see whether Global Radio will retain GCap Medias' stake in Digital One - the national commercial DAB network operator. (GCap had planned to sell off it's stake in Digital One (to Arqiva) and to close down Planet Rock and theJazz). We'll now have wait and see what happens next....  Tuesday 25th March 2008 OFFICIAL PLANET ROCK NEWS UPDATE As I’m sure you are all aware, Planet Rock has been under the shadow of closure since GCap announced their strategy statement on Feb 11. We were given the deadline of March 28th to find a buyer or be switched off permanently.  Saturday 22nd March 2008 It has been announced that Planet Rock will continue for a further month, (beyond the previously announced deadline of 28th March) to allow time for discussions to take place with a potential buyer. This is just the news we all wanted to hear, as it allows more time for further campaigning to support the station, while allowing for "due diligence" to be completed..... We still need to be focused....and no deal has been done yet.....but the signs are that someone has come forward and is interested in keeping Planet Rock on air. So, please continue to register your support....and let's show any potential new owner(s) that the listeners want Planet Rock to survive...  Thursday 20th March 2008 More Rock Stars are now supporting the campaign....now includes:  Friday 14th March 2008 A nice plug for the SAVE Planet Rock campaign has now come from the blog of one "David Gilmour". Thank you David !!  Tuesday 11th March 2008 News that GCap might have to delay selling it's stake in Digital One, while Global Radio is looking at GCap's accounts - there is a comment that talks have been ongoing with "a number of parties" interested in buying Planet Rock !! (link to Times Online website)  Monday 10th March 2008 You have GOT to see this: Fish in a Save Planet Rock t-shirt at a gig....(new window will open to display a large JPG - approx 680kb)  Friday 7th March 2008 More bands are now supporting the SAVE Planet Rock campaign, including: Magnum and Bob Catley The Answer If supporters of this petition can contact (by email, post or SMS) their favourite rock band with news about the campaign to SAVE Planet Rock, then we would be glad to give them a plug in return for them displaying one of our banner ads on their website....  Tuesday 4th March 2008 The part of the campaign to PLEDGE funds to enable a listener-backed buy-out of Planet Rock has now closed. The idea was launched on the Planet Rock forum on 22nd Feb (following many comments from people suggesting such a buy-out), but after 10 days, unfortunately, only 117 people came forward to pledge funds, which, as of last night, totalled a mere £22,270 (and we really needed something like £2 million !!) This clearly isn't enough to make a listener buy-out viable. It was worth a try, but without far more significant support in terms of pledgers and money, it has failed in it's objective. To those who did pledge your support, THANK YOU.  Monday 25th February 2008 Sign the petition that has now been accepted and published on the UK Prime Ministers website  Tuesday 19th February 2008 The SAVE Planet Rock website has been set up to act as a further reminder to people to SAVE Planet Rock and to act as a focus for all activity relating to the campaign, where you can get all sorts of additional info, such as petitions, web banners, animated GIF's, flyers, wallpapers, etc More support information will be available soon...!  Thursday 14th February 2008 Fish has kindly lent his support Rick Wakeman (legendary keyboard maestro and Planet Rock jock) has also made his opinions known here Brian May (Queen guitarist, in case you didn't know) has also come out in favour of Planet Rock here - he even asks if HE can buy it !!:  Tuesday 12th February 2008 More links for you to consider, the MOST important of which is the Planet Rock forum, where you can register to lodge YOUR opinion that Planet Rock is the BEST ROCK radio station in the world - see here: Or you can email Planet Rock directly with your messages of support here  Monday 11th February 2008 Fish (of Marillion fame) has posted this on his forum !!: best regards, Tim PS - I suggest we also involve as many rock musicians and fan clubs with this news and get them to support this petition - we also need to involve as many rock music fans on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace as we can....let's SHOW these people we want Planet Rock to continue. Furthermore, an idea that was suggested on the Planet Rock forum, is to get the audience at every rock gig to sign a written petition, which can then be posted to Planet Rock. So, if you are a promoter or your building is used to stage rock gigs, or even if you are just a punter, standing in a queue going to a gig, please see that the audience are aware of the plans to shut down Planet Rock - and get them to sign the petition PPS Please bookmark this page and tell ALL your friends - and let's SAVE this great radio station.  Loading People... |
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Only got DAB for this station. An education, and a refuge from all todays crap music. Gone from an average of 2 up to 5 on anorak quiz since unearthing this diamond! Save Our Planet, and then stick it on Freeview too!
Hadn't listened to radio for years til unearthing this diamond. Got DAB because of it's existence. Any new buyer should put it on Freeview too!
I cannot believe that such an individual, UNIQUE radio station will close, The Jazz was a blow, but Planet Rock is GENUINELY something quite special, there's nothing like it in the UK, the content, the interviews, the variety, It really does make one weep for the loss of such a special provision, a station that takes so much care and shows so much passion, it's typical of the British way to allow this to die - flog it, or shut it down and sod the listeners and people who've put so much time and effort into it. DON'T LET IT DIE!!!! Thoughts, best wishes and support from here in Cornwall. XXX
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEEEEEEEASE WILL SOMEONE AGREE TERMS & PURCHASE PLANET ROCK,
THE STATION CAN NOT CLOSE. IT WOULD BE TOO DEVASTING TO LOSS THE ONLY RADIO STATION THAT PLAYS THE BEST SOUNDS, HAS THE BEST DJ's AND IS A LIFE LINE FOR SO MANY - INCLUDING MYSELF.
Mindless air guitar in the office will become history. :-(
It was only due to Fish that I heard about the station but I've been listening for a few days now (on the internet as I live in Holland) and so far I've not heard anything I don't like. What a shame if a buyer cannot be found. I've added the banner to my site (www.askew.nl). Nick Askew
This is simply the only radio station in the UK worth listening to.
I grew up with my taste in music being catered for with 1 hour on a Monday Night on Hallam FM, 2 hours on a Friday on Radio 1 and 3 hours ona Saturday also on Radio 1. Without Planet rock it's back to the bad old days with just half a dozen hours a week national radio. Ican't do this just 6 hours a week - I want it all the time!
I wish all at Planet Rock the best - You were the reason I bought a DAB radio in the first place!
Simon V
Barnsley, Yorkshire, England
Why do Planet Rocks owners want to sell the only real Rock station in the UK, which has listeners all over the world?? Is it that Panet Rock are too good, and they are interfering with the listening figures of other staions which they own? Planet Rock you have and will be making TRUE music listeners very happy for many a year to come.
Stay on the air.
Mick **** from Dorset UK
Planet Rock is the only radio station (commercial or otherwise) that is worth listening to nowadays. LONG LIVE ROCK.
SIMPLY BRILLIANT!
SIMPLY ENTERTAINING!
SIMPLY A LIFE SAVER!
SIMPLY ROCK N ROLL!
ITS SIMPLE , SAVE PLANET ROCK!
IF I HAD THE MONEY ID BUY IT MY SELF..!
We in Australia know what a big mistake it is to close something so good down.
I am really surprised a commercial staion exists of this nature.
If you want music I've been hearing on Planet Rock,
it would only be on some obscure community radio station, funded by sponsors & with a membership of locals who really love music, much like the one I voluntarily work for. Not internationally available via the net.
Now if a country of 20,000,000 can do it on a shoe string budget, how come this huge country of the UK
can't keep such a good station going!!!
WAKE UP UK!!! Buy the bloody thing off these losers who don't know a good thing when it's right there in front of YOU!!!!!
From Mark M in Aust.
Every one I know who has purchased a DAB radio is for one thing only 'PLANET ROCK' the only radio station that plays good music, all the other stations just play a variant of each other POP music (you can hear that kind of music anywhere, supermarkets etc).
Please dont switch off the only decent music station in UK.
Gary Banks (Porcupine tree fan)
best radio station on air long live planet rock
planet rock is the only dab station worth buying a digital radio for - if it closes there is nowhere to hear real music. I would buy it tomorrow if i had any money.
John h
We'd just like to say thanks to Planet Rock for being such strong supporters of RUSH and hope that you can continue broadcasting for many years to come.
Geddy, Alex & Neil
RUSH
28 March 2008
planet rock is the only station that plays the kind of music that i love. it gets me through the day and i cant think how i managed without it.its unthinkable that planet rock might close bob h.
emailed MP as suggested as yet no reply
also OFCOM who say its none of their buisness its a commercial decision so have emailed them again asking about closure of FM
what is life without PLANET ROCK
Just had a DAB radio for my birthday in Feb and cannot believe they are going to shut Planet Rock, its the only reason I got the radio.
I honestly haven't been this depressed about anything since they closed the Newcastle Mayfair. Planet Rock must keep going!
We have just installed dab radio at are work place. And have just descovered PLANET ROCK, now we hear it might be off air permanent,THIS CANNOT HAPPEN it gets us through the shift.For us this is the only station for real music fans.IF I HAD THE MONEY IN MY POCKET I WOULD BUY IT.Steve B
I am a 52 year old rock fan who started on the road in 1967 when my mum took me to see Jimi Hendrix (thank you mum).
Plamet Rock provides a mix of music that appeals to a wide a range and whenever I turn it it on there is always something that resonates with me and either takes me back or makes me think 'wow that's good, who the hell are they?'
In short-Planet Rock provides exactly what I want and I would hate for it to fall foul of the financial fraternity who are only motivated by the 'bottom line' and how much they will gain by the sale.
Rock on Planet Rock!!
The only radio station worth listening to.
I can't understand why they would even think of closing Planet Rock.
First Pandora and now Planet Rock. Please don't make me go back to Virgin Radio!
PLease leave it alone !!, without Planet rock I will not want/need or use a radio, it's the ONLY station that caters for Rock fans, It must must must be saved Bob lyford -Smith Bobelpfan
We just can't let Planet Rock go to "The Great Gig in the Sky"
Like so many others, I have a dab radio because of
Planet Rock.
Long may those essential vibes flow
It's really the only reason to have a digital radio. It is however an extremely good reason to get a digital radio.
The only station i listen to on my radio in my van/home is Planet Rock! You cant close it down because it will be like shutting all the pubs in the UK......un thinkable!
All the best
James
Planet Rock provides us with the music we really want to hear,Rock music from across the vast range that has been recorded from the 60's onwards.
No other radio stations comes close in allowing people to listen to older classics to allowing new bands to get a hearing across a large spectrum of listeners.
Frankly anyone stupid enough to allow planet rock to close wants his head examining.
It reminds me of the story of the merchant who found the perfect gem and sold everything that he had to possess it.
That gem is Planet Rock, if digital radio is to continue then such station as Planet Rock will keep it going.
Without them goodbye Digital and good riddance to the idiots who cant see Planet Rock for the joy it is.
Colin Skilton
Dab is Planet Rock !