Why did they phase out the HotHits format that made that Radio station so successful between 1989 and early 1992?
Take a look at "wilkosnaps" on Instagram, Matt Wilkinson on Heart London - he's certainly doing something good with what he's got at Global.
Calling Seal shyte?
Fail.
Thought this might be a thread about the return of Atlantic252, silly me. I am thoroughly enjoying the 90s tunes back on Atlantic, tuning in via the app.
Waiting for the angry anorak mob to hop on you for the audacity to like the new unofficial version of Atlantic in 10, 9, 8…😉
😂 I don't care, reliving my musical youth is keeping me happy! I am the target audience.
I'm enjoying it too. Hearing tunes I haven't heard in a long line time. How long it'll last is another question because I haven't noticed any ads.
I have a Google smart speaker and would like to cast the audio to that when I'm at home. I can't see any option to cast it on the app, nor is the station showing up in TuneIn (there's a different A252 station there).
I’d forgotten it was up. Dipped in just three for a listen! It’s fantastic! Like uncovering a time capsule from the late 80s/very early 90s. Reminds me instantly of being on summer holidays in secondary school! Great stuff. Long may it continue.
They mentioned recently that there will be some ads, I can't remember if I heard that on the station or on their Instagram account. I suppose they needed to build up a listenership first.
Who is running it? Is anyone connected with the original station involved?
Been listening on and off since yesterday. Wow! Lots of tracks from that 89-91 period I’d totally forgotten because they’re never played anywhere and could be classed as obscure now. They wouldn’t have been big hits long term. They totally capture what was really going on in that period musically though, for me at least. Even TOTP from this time period doesn’t have this stuff but it was stuff I liked at the time. Stuff like a cover of Anither Day In Paradjse by I think it might be someone like Jam tronix or such and a drum beat/vocal cover of wishing on a star. You just don’t hear this stuff now.
googles Jam Trinidad
Nope, no results.
Jam Trinik I think. That’s bit right either
Found it. New one to me!
And I think this is the version of "Wishing on a Star" you're referring to...
They're starting to run ads, though they're unobtrusive so far. I'm continuing to enjoy this station and the voiceovers from Jim Merkel. It's lovely to be able to leave the music playing in the background with no "hilarious" messers interrupting the flow. So far I haven't noticed hearing any songs twice. That's not to say it hasn't happened but it's not as obvious as it is on mainstream radio shows. The streaming services get pretty repetitive too. I'm genuinely enjoying listening to hear what the next track might be.
If you go to http://lsn.to/ATC on Chrome on an Android phone and start playing, you can find an option to cast to your Google smart speaker.
Thanks. I'll try that when I get home. It's just a shame that they think Alexa is the only smart speaker out there.
Google shot themselves in the foot when they stopped the support for conversational actions with no suitable replacement.
It affected many radio stations and Google is solely to blame for abandoning both the stations and its "smart" speaker users.
I used to have an Alexa speaker and gave it away. The Google ecosystem works far better with the apps I use and I'm happy enough with it. It's just Atlantic 252 that it doesn't work with. The app works fine with Android Auto in the car, which was a pleasant surprise.
