RIP Choice FM: You bastards had a sh*t run

[R1.]

Who remembers when Richard Blackwood was on on Sundays.

[Mr Invincible 49]

Who remembers when Richard Blackwood was on on Sundays.

 

Him and KAT used to be jokes i cant lie.

 

Altho Choice Fm wasnt the greatest they did have some good shows on their like the Soca, Afro Beats and Reggae chart shoes that catered to a particular audience. I cant see that happening now.

[JOHN DOE]

Is Commander B still on choice on a friday earlier morning?

can't be serious

man took it baaaaack

[Horatio Caine]

lool dey have blocked a few "urban" stars on twitter, wiley is one loool

[JOHN DOE]

only just discovered last month that 1xtra is so much better

 

but even they still bang the same music

 

how can london not have one good 'urban' radio station

 

i love house but rinse can over cater to this market

 

should bang some more rnb and hiphop

[Heero Yuy]

Yasmin Evans is too jarring that early in the morning

 

Crawford is trash aswell

[Agony]

Can't remember the last time I listened to Choice or 1xtra

 

Listening to sets on the soundcloud app and house stations like HouseFM.net on the tunein app>>> 

[Fearless-Guy]

vision radio uk is a pretty good pirate for the house heads

[R1.]

All pirates are good for house, since that's the music most of them play.

[youcleanwepaint]

vision radio uk is a pretty good pirate for the house heads

88.4..

 

try s-dance 96.1

[JLovely]

On top fm is quite decent.

[Guest 90210]

dont listen to it anyway... listen to LBC whenever im in a car situation

[dub]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/04/rip-choice-fm-black-music-capital-xtra

 

lol @ Boya Dee doing articles for the Guardian

[Kuffir]

projectfm and hoxton radio are nice

 

wearebang as well

[dub]

HoxtonFM (dunno why the two stations are happy having such similar names)

NTSRadio

 

NastyFM had some decent shows when I use to lock in last year, haven't locked in a while though

[dub]

I dunno, seemed out of touch to me, unless he was writing about his memories of Choice at the start of last decade.

 

Whenever I've switched the radio to ChoiceFM I've only ever heard commercial RNB/rap from the US, but he writes of it being some sort of haven for black music when really you'd get more music for black audiences during Westwood's drivetime 1xtra hours and much more support for UK artists. To me Choice largely represented what was wrong with black music in the UK over at least the last 5 years - with artists continually becoming more commercial and Americanized.

[dub]

Well then the article is 10 years late.

[Fillup Banks]

^^why the edit?

 

but yh there's no way those are actually his views.. he's just being sentimental & waffling, trying to make an argument that's void

 

choice are just following trends

[dub]

I felt like my points didn't make sense in what they were replying to and following from - if we'd already acknowledged that it doesn't make sense if he was writing an article about how its going to have changed from last year's Choice FM to this new Capital Xtra.

[Don Crack]

Big money wins over culture

[Benicio del Toney]

The Playlist system seems to work best for Radio stations in maintaining audience numbers and getting that ad revenue.

 

That's why they go that route.

 

If you want variation then you're gonna have to go Pirate, came across Omega fm not too long ago, got some interesting presenters on there. 

[Agony]

Only shows I used to check for on Choice was Jenny Francis, Commander B and Kat & RB. 

[R1.]

came across Omega fm not too long ago, got some interesting presenters on there. 

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