Walk The Dog - Week 9
Sounds: Top 40 pop according to the UK, specialty shows in many genres
Positives: A direct look at UK pop culture and what's hot on the charts right now. Specialty shows that cover some subsets and underground UK culture
Negatives: The UK also listens to American artists so there's a fair bit of stuff on this channel that you can get anywhere. During daytime, the channel's all about the "presenters" and fitting in all the necessary conversation and allotted songs before the show is over or before it's news time; if that means playing 20 seconds of a song then cutting it off to go do something else, then so be it.
Blastability: Pretty high. It's hip and cool
Overall: The station's definitely a keeper when you want some look inside UK culture, catch some world renowned DJs spinning live, and catch some alternate culture stuff such as Bangrah beats and UK Indie, but if I want an unfiltered exclusively UK music experience I go right to my Slacker player
Sounds: All Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia solo, and Grateful Dead member collaborations and live performances
Positives: Essential if you're a Dead fan. They have a very large catalogue and uniquely different songs so repetition is low. Full live concerts are long and perfectly preserved...almost a time capsule
Negatives: Presentation of the channel may be a little too low key for its own good. There appeared to be no station IDs (unless the large amount of long songs prevented me from ever hearing them because I'm not in the car that long) and the DJ that came on to introduce the live concerts made me want to take a nap while driving
Blastability: Medium to high depending on how under the influence I am :P
Overall: I agree with a lot of people though that this channel should be taking over the spot of JAM_ON or not in existence because Grateful Dead should already be well presented on that channel