As part of our special show this New Years Eve, we are asking our listeners to vote for their favourite number one of 2006. Just log onto www.sixhits.com and vote, then listen to our show this New Years Eve (time to be confirmed) when we will play all the number ones of the year and give you all the music news of the past 12 months
Two great shows lined up for you this new years eve starting at 3pm with the SixHits Review of the Year 2006, playing the top twenty UK official number ones, then join our dj Kev along with Emil 109 as they bring in the new year from 7pm live from Birmingham, in the New Years Eve Big Bash. Then listen out on New Years Day for a special suprise!!
Thats this New Year on SixHits!
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The old site was much better. Also, I wish they would take the DAB message, it's already been well discussed over on DS how they won't be able to afford it.
I thought this thread was set up to discuss the website itself, which, having patched up some of the holes and tidied up the graphics, looks a lot better.
As you may or may not know I am invovled with SixHits and have been told by the station manager to post this.
The management and staff at SixHits would like to point out that the comments expressed on Digital Spy were ruthless and unmitigated attacks on the individuals involved in running the station. Whilst we cannot comment on specific figures, it should be known that the DAB project is not just a blindly hopeful folly, but a real and continuing effort which has every chance of succeeding.
Posters at DS were making comments based on misinformation and speculation only. There was no "discussion" as Orry put it, but merely one-way sneering and belittling. Doubters are of course welcome to express opinions, as long as they are backed up by facts.
Whilst no specific figures can be mentioned now, SixHits DAB licence application has been sent to OfCom and is now pending, and a launch date on a DAB multiplex has been pencilled in.
From what I saw on DS, they were only concerned that a lot of the facts didn't add up, and having a lot of experience in radio (and internet radio) myself, I came to the same opinion.
Firstly, while a DAB license from Ofcom is generally cheap and easily obtainable, the carriage costs on a multiplex are extremely high, something a relatively new and small internet station would not be able to afford. From what I gathered, they were looking to be carried on one of the NOW Digital multiplexes, and the cost for carriage on that, both as a proper station or on the (practically non existent) access channel are very high. I know this as I looked it up myself not so long ago.
Secondly, there is concern that the station is run by Kevin Coy, who has been involved in may projects in the past, all of which had failed (the most notable of which being LiveCast UK). Also, SixHits is backed, owned and funded by Matiria Records UK. However, Materia only has one artist, Emil 109, which is odd when it's sister record is called Emil 109 Publishing. Finally, Materia is registered to an adress very close to Kevin Coy's home. This would come off suspicious to anyone, let alone those in the industry.
Back onto terms of the actual site, while the old site had a lot of gaps, it looks A LOT nicer and had a Web 2.0 feel to it, something the new site does not.
