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.
Please please bring it back, best radio station everVal
please,please,PLEASE,Bring back this great uninterupted station.It was a real joy to listen to.no talk just music peter
We are so sad to learn that this station has been taken off the airwaves. We love it, as do so many others. It plays some of the best songs ever made and we would so love it to be put back on the air.
Very sad to see this go… Really hope it comes back
Come on all of you – not everyone has a computer but many are now getting DAB. Without a doubt this station is one of the best in the UK and needs to be brought back on to DAB.
Stop assuming everyone has a wish to listen via computer. Please bring it back onto DAB for the fareness of all.
Great shame that this station has been removed. Without doubt the best station on the DAB airwaves – please bring it back! Ashley (Essex)
Pity, but it was inevitable eventually: no adverts means no money.
Now the only reason to listen on DAB has gone.
Very sorry that you've decided to cease broadcasting on DAB radio. You'll be sorely missed. Please keep it going on the Internet at least, until you bring it back on the radio!!!
i cant believe they have gone !!!!! what can we do to bring the station back ?
anyone know why our kind of music has now gone from DAB please bring it back soon,we all loved it..
Yes. Please bring the station back even if there are advertisements! It'd be worth it!
It was a joy to listen to, and I made it into a game/quiz for myself each time I heard a song, to see if I could guess right, who was singing etc.,
I was devistated when I went to listen to my favourite station, that it was off air, I thought it was something to do with the signal. I introduced my friends and family that live in Basingstoke, and felt sorry for those who could not receive this fantastic station.
What can I do to bring it back, write to anyone?
I echo everyone by saying "please, please, please,find a way to bring back this amazing, fantastic music station.
Yvonne Bloomfield (Basingtoke).
Why take it of air?I reckon it was one of the most popular stations there was.
G.L.Y.
I bought a DAB radio to listen to a programme called 'Prime Time'. As soon as I got my radio it was taken off air. I'd just got used to tuning in to 'Our Kind of Music' and now that's gone. There's nothing for the over 50s. Great shame.
My Mum has loved listening to the station and asked me to look into why it is not available – gutted to have to tell her she won't be able to listen anymore – as others have said, especially with the type of music, some older folks are not into computers – PLEASE BRING IT BACK TO DAB. Fingers crossed.
I am so sad to find this excellent station is now off-air. Why doesn't the BBC sponser it on DAT? One of the beauties of the station was the absence of adverts. Please, BBC, step in and relaunch!
Please bring Our kind of Music back Myself Husband and all our friends listened to it every day, best radio programme ever,
Our Kind of Music was the BEST programme on the radio and one of the reasons why we bought Aa DAB radio. Miss it very much please bring it back to DAB. Have tried to listen on the pc but a message comew up that the link is broken.
Why when anything good comes along like 'My Kind of Music' does somebody somewhere pull the plug.
Whats the point now of owning a DAB radio without being able to listen to MKoM.
Please do the honourable thing and bring it back
Please bring it back, best there is (was). Can somebody please tell me why it has been taken off DAB, especially when some sort of broadcast (which I cannot access) continues to be made.
I am a professional musician and used to tune into this brilliant radio station. It provided the perfect music for the musician. I so badly miss it and hope that somebody somewhere will find a way for it to be made available again.
Please, please try and find a way of making this fabulous radio station live again. There are many many more like me who share my views. It should also be considered to be broadcast nationally.
Please bring back 'Our kind of Music' it was the only station on the radio which provided easy listening. There are far too many stations with current 'pop' music and apart from Jazz FM this was the only choice.
Howard Nr aylesbury
Very, very sad to see this dissapear. Without doubt the best radio station in the entire history of radio. Feeling quite sad.
Please bring Our Kind of Music back: indeed it was the only reason why I purchased a DAB radio in the first place.
Such a shame it's gone off air. It was a breath of fresh air! Why has it gone? You could have left a message online to say! Great disappointment.
I have only found Our Kind Of Music recently when I went over to a broadband connection. Of all the musical tastes on the internet this is the one I like, no adds, or talk, just great music.
Russell Campbell, Dunedin,
New Zealand.
My elderly mother listened to "Our kind of music" all day long and is lost without it. Please bring it back, it gave so much enjoyment to so many people.
Frances – Berkshire
What have you done, why are we being told on one hand by our wonderful Government that Dab is the future of broadcasting and on the other great radio stations like Our Kind of Musics are deserting DAB.
Come back to DAB we all miss you. DL
Listening now online…lovely..
want it back on DAB. how many more people have to ask to bring it back. It should be broadcast nationally.
My wife is severely disabled and her only pleasure in life was to listen to "Our kind of music" all day. The continuous music was just the kind of music we used to dance to when we were young. Why did you take the station off air when it was obvious that so many people loved it. Please, please put the station back on air and bring happiness back to my wife. Ken
I have just come across this station on the internet, and I really like it. The only thing I miss is the titles being broadcast. Thanks for the music anyhow. Zsuzsa from Hungary
Its the end of my world !
There has never been such a fantastic station. Please come back.
from
The folk who live on the hill…in Bath
We need this station back on air, fantastic music all day, no egotistical dj, no news, no interruptions, just great listening. We recommended it to so many people. Please find a way to bring it back.
Babs & John from Southampton
There's not another radio station like it! Please bring it back. I've been listening to it for many months here in north Germany and will miss it greatly.
STILL VERY DEARLY MISSING THIS MARVELLOUS STATION —- ANY ONE KNOW HOW TO CONTACT THE PERSON TO BRING IT BACK?
PAT LONDON
Sorry to see it go. But always wondered how it could exist with apparently no income. I would like it back if possible.
I keep attempting to tune to Our Kind of Music on my DAB radio in the vain hope that it will come back on air. Used to love listening to this, especially in the evening when cooking dinner – nice, relaxing muisc from yesteryear without annoying presenters or adverts. It’s sadly missed. I’d even put up with adverts if it meant it got the funding to bring it back on air.
Why! oh why! have you taken away the only program I listen to none stop every day , and the only reason I bought my Dab radio…Please bring back My kind of music
I only listened to two Internet radio stations – BBC Radio 4 for news and current events and Our Kind of Music. So far, I have been unable to find an alternative to Our Kind of Music. Surely, someone must know who made the decision to drop Our Kind of Music. I´m still trying to find out. I understand that a group of DAB radio stations, including Our Kind of Music, was bought or acquired by a company, which is the start point for my search.
John Stewart, Germany.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE bring back ‘OUR KIND OF MUSIC’, which was so nice to listen to, and was the reason for me to buy 2 DAB radios !!, which I’m sure will soon wear out now having to keep select another station with fewer adverts.
Eddie, South Benfleet, Essex
There is a device made by Aluratek Called a USB Internet radio Jukebox, Model AIRJ01F. It plugs into an USB Port on a computer.
It allows you to access radio stations worldwide. It has a station listed under nostalgia called “181 FM Vocal Jazz. United States. It is very similar to “Our Kind of Music”
Worth looking int, the device is about $30.
Please bring it back as soon as you can.
This is John Stewart from Germany again (see January 29th).
At the Ofcom website, is a
reference to DAB station Format Changes. One of these is the removal of Our Kind of Music. I sent an email to support@getdigitalradio.com] saying that there are hundreds of notes posted on the Internet lamenting the loss of this station. For some of us, it was the only station we listened to and, since its loss, we have not been able to find an alternative. I asked why the station was removed and whether, due to public demand, it could be restored.
The reply I received was “As far as I know, Our Kind Of Music wasn’t “removed” but it was that the owners decided to cease broadcasting the station. I’m not sure for what reason though. It would seem unlikely that this decision would be reversed though.”
So, the future for Our Kind of Music doesn’t look too good at the moment.
John Stewart
Germany
I have been trying to find this great station on the Internet, but without success. The website address fails to connect. Any suggestions, other than please bring the station back to DAB or even broadcast it on VHF instead of all the nearly identical, noise generators which are currently there.
Hi…perhaps you will all like to look at our new internet station, Melody Radio at : http://www.melodyradiouk.com
We are not on DAB or broadcasting on FM yet and it is still in a formative stage….but there are developments in the pipeline.
And who said it was only for older people? I’m 26 and I loved that station badly.
As the others said: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE bring it back, why good things come to and end is just beyond me.
Can we have this station back please.
can we have another radio station if there can not bring our kind of music back.
Several years ago I used to listen via satellite to Primetime Radio, but it disappeared.
Now Our Kind of Music has gone!
Here in the Netherlands I only could listen to Our Kindof Music via internet.
I did not listen every day, but still quite often, and always for many hours.
Please bring it back, even with commercials it would be worth it!
For the time being, I now use the internet to listen to KLUX (Corpus Christi, Texas), and KJUL (Las Vegas, Nevada).
can we have a new radio station as soon as you can, I miss our kind of music on the radio.
Re Our Kind of Music,
In 2009 I spent £100 to have a proper DAB Aerial on my car, so I could listen to this loverly station, and then it goes off the air.I do hope it come,s back sometime,perhaps some one will get up a petition.The BBC do not seem to care about music for the older generation,apart from Sunday,s, and the occasional track here and there during the day.
I did here some time last year that Pete Murray and Tony Blackburn were going to start a station to play this sort of music, but I have not herd of anything..
Derek,(67)