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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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Please dont close! i love the DJs and the music too...
Annie
The ONLY decent radio station on air.
I wish we in the US could tender our votes on this. We simply can not lose Planet Rock. Your interviews are some of the best in the industry and your music, well, Rocks!
Patricia
Planet Rock is the only decent station catering for us,a not so small minority
I bought DAB for this station....it can't go off air now!
Planet rock is a great station to listen too - it has great music - DON'T CLOSE IT DOWN!!!
please, please,please do not close Planet Rock, Saturdays mornings would not be the same without Rick. Jerry Scagell Exeter
I have only been switched on for around two month's and must say what a great station giving a real alternative to the same old same old on FM and AM. I hope the station finds a buyer and the format is left alone. Unfortunately, accountants run radio these days, and although I fully understand and agree that station should earn their keep, most I'm afraid are JUST after the big money.
I don't think P.R. help themselves though, I just went to the website with a view of advertising, but all they had there was programme, music details etc. How much time would it have took to have a button that took you to an advertisers section? Anyway, Good luck, Tony Buckingham.
Keep this station - it rocks!!! It's the one I listen to all the time and the only place to listen to the kind of music we all should be ;istening to.
No Alice in the morning. No Rick at the weekend. Life will be less entertaining.
As Rush say . . .
"Plays that song thats so elusive
And the magic music makes your morning mood"
Who will make our morning mood if Planet Rock goes?
It will be a black day indeed if this station closes,
someone must intervene and keep rock alive!
What will I do for jokes without Rick?!
Only bought a DAB radio so that I could listen to the greatest rock music ever, what will happen to all those sad unneeded DAB radios, if Planet Rock dies??
cant we all chip in and buy it, its the best radio station ever
We've waited years for a station that plays a fantastic genre of music that will never die. And now some stuck up accountant wants to shut it and subject us to the utter garbage that is on our British airwaves. Save the UK's best EVER radio station NOW!
What a shame if this great radio station closed :( It would burn a big hole in the present day rock music canvas - and potentially mean the younger generation missing out on some great tunes. Please will someone save it?!!!
DENIM AND LEATHER... PUT THEM ALL TOGETHER... IT WAS YOU THAT SET THE SPIRIT FREE
COME ON OLD ROCKERS LETS SAVE OUR PLANET ROCK.
I WISH I KNEW ABOUT THE LISTNER BUY OUT BEFORE THEY SHUT IT, I'D HAVE PLEDGED A FEW QUID. WHY NO MENTION ON THE STATION????????????
SAVE PLANET ROCK
I DON'T WANT TO LISTEN TO STEVE WRIGHT AGAIN!!!!!
How can they close one of the most popular dad radio stations. Since I got dab planet rock has not been off. But why no mentions of the campaign on the station I have only found this site today. I would have pleged money for the listner buy out but didn't know about it.Anyway lets all hope for the best, we need Planet Rock and we Love Planet Rock
How can the best station the UK has ever had close, please save her I do not want to go back to Radio 2.
Planet Rock is the only station I listen to we can't let it go without a fight
Save Planet Rock,the best radio station on the planet must not go,we need it!
The best radio station on the planet must be saved,we need it!
The best radio station on the planet must not be allowed to go,we need it!
The only reason I bought a DAB in the first place! Please don't let it close!
this station must not close!! Its the best thing to happen to music radio in years.
Please DON'T let this happen!! How else will we be able to get through saturday mornings/afternoons without Rick & Hoffy, and their 'shaggy dog stories'/jokes? Lol! I Love Planet Rock! Somebody please step in and save it, before it's taken away from us, forever... (:o(
Caaaaaan yooou hear me callin' Planet rock!
Blimey someone with sense please buy this station and save our souls......
Planet Rock has been like a friend to me over the years, sometimes the only one. All the presenters are fantastic and breakfast will never be the same without Alice. There is no other station that comes anywhere near Planet Rock.
This the only one the very few digital stations worth listening to and the only one dedicated to rock Planet Rock Must be Saved !!