TheJazz
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| Broadcast area | United Kingdom |
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| Slogan | Come into the cool and feel good |
| Frequency |
Sky Digital: 0113 Virgin Media: 961 |
| First air date | 25 December 2006 |
| Format | Jazz |
| Audience share | 0.2% (March 2008, [1]) |
| Owner | GCap Media |
| Website | www.thejazz.com |
theJazz was a British commercial jazz digital radio station. The station was run by GCap Media and launched on Christmas Day 2006, originally as a non-stop jazz station on the Digital One DAB ensemble, Sky Digital, Virgin Media and the Internet.
The station played jazz, including bebop, blues, traditional and modern jazz. GCap stated in its press release that the station "will do for jazz what Classic FM has done for classical music, in making the genre accessible to a UK-wide audience". The station stopped broadcasting on 31 March 2008 on DAB. theJazz was broadcasting a generic automated two-hour loop on Sky, Virgin Media and online without DJs. This was closed down and removed from Sky and Virgin Media on 3 November. Chill has now relaunched on Digital TV using theJazz's old channel numbers on both Sky and Virgin Media.
After the closure of PrimeTime Radio, Ofcom allowed a variation of the Digital One licence to replace the requirement of an easy listening station to a classic and contemporary jazz requirement. On 19 September 2006, GCap formally released a press statement announcing the launch of a new national radio station before 2007.
theJazz started test transmissions on all the platforms it would broadcast on in December 2006. The test transmissions consisted of Lindos Electronics test tones and an announcement of the forthcoming launch. From the commencement of broadcast to December 2007, it broadcast on DAB at a bit rate of 96 kbit/s in mono. From December 2007, this was increased to 128 kbit/s in joint stereo.
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