Digital station ourkindofmusic has been removed from the digital radio platform.
The station was available until today on the local DAB multiplexes for Bristol and Bath, Swindon, Reading and Basingstoke, and Southend and Chelmsford.
The station started in 2005 and featured jazz and easy-listening music from the likes of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Gershwin. The station was set up by radio veteran Eddie Blackwell, former Chairman of Essex Radio and director at GWR.
Apparently the station will continue as an online Internet service available at www.ourkindofmusic.net – you can listen online, or using a Wireless Internet Radio.
Update 28 Nov 2009: Website for Our Kind of Music no longer appears to be available.
What a shame ,we have a crappy lot of organisers who JAM the airways with a lot of Modern tasteless CRAPP, or people only interested in talking about themselvs on how great they are???
What about ‘our kind of music’ for the old godgers who made the country great ,only to be messed up by the people in charge…although a lot retired young
We have got the experience and the know-how to
make the country prosperous again,.
No more borrowing to pay for political HAND-OUTS we are now up to our eyes in debt
Let us try to get our BRAINS back to our country from spain etc,.
I found a Radio OKOM (Our Kind Of Music) at this address: http://www.okom.com/
Could this be the continuation of the station as internet radio? The broadcasted ‘kind’ of music certainly is familiar.
No, Radio OKOM is not the “Our Kind of Music” I knew. :-(
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! Has anyone discovered where “Our Kind Of Music” has disappeared to? Unfortunately none of the “alternatives” listed in the previous emails are any good as replacements – they just can’t compete. It has never been explained why it went off the air, and without it I almost feel as if I’ve lost a close relaive.
Good idea. It’s amazing, helpful and effective. Thanks for sharing.
I still miss OKOM, the best music prog that was ever on the radio.
No talking, no adverts, just lovely music, and I listened to it for hours. I had my favourites like Ella and the wonderful big bands whom we never hear now. I am so glad that I taped many hours of the prog and it means that I can still listen even if I am out and not near a radio. Eddie Blackwell lived in Southend quite near me and I often wonder what happened to him and the other presenters. I have tried the new OKOM but it is not the same, the singers and groups of today might sound OK to the younger listeners but to me there are only a few who will ever be remembered, and sadly most of those have died tragically either by accident or design.
Thanks, this is helpful!