Arrow Classic Rock has dropped all its presenters and will continue as a non-stop music station. The station’s website has not been updated at the time of this post, and it continues to list some presented programmes.
The station, which lost its FM terrestrial licence a couple of months ago for non-payment of fees to the government, currently broadcasts on cable, Internet, digitenne and with low power (5 kW) on 828 kHz. Its sister station, Arrow Jazz FM, continues on cable and Internet only. The future of the stations is in doubt due to the serious financial problems.
on Apr 29th, 2009 at 10:54
So they’re copying the UK version then ..?
on Apr 30th, 2009 at 09:06
I’m sure it’s still better than the UK version! I really do wonder why they gave up the 675kHz licence that was obviously maintainable (although perhaps the station wasn’t making a profit even in those days), and it did give them national (and international!) coverage.
Who’s on the 675kHz freq. these days?
on Apr 30th, 2009 at 17:45
Radio Maria is on 675KHz now. Seems to be a much clearer signal here in the UK to me. What is on the old Arrow Classic Rock and Arrow Jazz FM frequencies now? Have the transmitters been switched off? I did read here that Radio 10 Gold and others were interested in these
on Apr 30th, 2009 at 23:29
I seem to recall the Dutch Arrow was originally non stop. UK Arrow just copied it.
on May 7th, 2009 at 00:08
As of the evening of 5th May Arrow Classic Rock is not on 828khz.What has happened here? Did the men from the Ministry close down this tx site or was it voluntarily closed by the cash strapped station?
on May 7th, 2009 at 09:11
The reason isn’t yet clear, though Ad Ossendrijver has applied for bankruptcy for the two companies that run the Arrow stations. I suspect that the transmitter operator has simply swiched it off for non-payment. You will recall that the transmitter was carrying Arrow’’s third station, Caz!, prior to switching to Arrow Classic Rock. The Arrow website still mentions 828 kHz, but I have read a posting on a listener forum that says 828 kHz has been dropped from the top-of-the-hour announcements, which suggests it is not coming back. Mr Ossendrijver is apparently not talking to the press at the moment, but as soon as I have some further news I will post it here.
on May 7th, 2009 at 12:25
Actually some Dutch websites carry current quotations from him. But these statements have little substance and do not go into the particular aspect of the mediumwave transmitter being switched off (which, for the chronicle, reportedly happened around 17:50 CET).