CABLE/DISH DMX DROPS "DISCO" CHANNEL - ACT NOW!

[judydoggie]

ATTENTION, DISCO LOVERS: "MusicChoice" is the company that provides "DMX" (Digital Music Service) to your cable/dish receiver box. If you have this service, you're paying a premium for it. MusicChoice has deleted the "DISCO" channel from their DMX lineup. Their disco library, it appears, has been distributed between their "DANCE" channel (un-listenable techno and dance for bubble-gum chewers) and their "CLASSIC R&B" channels.

At my business, at least, the disco channel kept the staff on their toes, and the customers would comment that it helped them get a better attitude during their day (we play it only at lunchtime).

YOU CAN HELP. Lodge a complaint by filling out a simple form on their website. In the "Comments" section, merely tell them to "Bring the DISCO channel back." Here's the url: http://www.musicchoice.com/forms/comments_form.asp

They just did this -- an immediate outcry might revive this oasis in an otherwise "disco-sanitized" music environment.

[Videoskooter]

Oh, it is following the general radio-trends. One station, one type of music. It's all becoming fastfoodradio I suppose.

I'm willing to sign the petition but does it make sense since I'm European? Otherwise, I'll react with pleasure.

[judydoggie]

It doesn't matter if you're European... we need all the help we can get over here!

Thanks,
Judydoggie!

[dj phillip esparza]

i followed the link and filled out their form.i enjoy the programe even though they go back from disco to old school rap.

phillip

[NickNack]

Done! I liked that channel even though they kept splitting it's time slots with Rap :x .

[Videoskooter]

You got my vote-hope they will reconsider now!

[paul]

OK, I lent my support.

[DiscoBall]

Done! I liked that channel even though they kept splitting it's time slots with Rap :x .

It will be missed!! Hopefully they will reconsider. All summer long we would be sitting by the pool listening to disco classics and all of a sudden we would be hit with rap. One of us would always go running to change the channel. I was hoping it would eventually get a channel all by itself.

[judydoggie]

The channel I was referring to was entitled "Classic Disco" and was last located at No. 901 on Comcast in Connecticut. I never heard it change over to rap; but then, they were very mercurial about putting it on and taking it off.

Since the removal of the Disco channel, I've found that they've been sneaking in a lot of '70s disco on the "Classic R&B" Channel, as well. It'd behoove those of you who, like me, are missing the great disco in crystal-clear digital sound.

Paul - a.k.a. JudyDoggie

[DiscoMan]

Up here in Central Mass they mix Classic Disco in with Old School Rap (Charter Cable). Monday, Wednesday, Friday and late Sunday is Old School Rap. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday into Sunday is Classic Disco. They played their normal schedule this past Saturday and should play Classic Disco today. Of course I'll check and report. Gawd Rap is terrible. It gives me sinus infections and the runs.

And I sent my email last week, too.

[judydoggie]

Dear Discoman:

I nearly fell off my chair laughing when reading the side-effects you suffer when exposed to rap music. Mine include the same, plus headache, muscle-ache, dizziness, disorientation, blurred vision, joint pain, short-term memory loss, bile, hives, carbunkles, scalp irritation, neuralgia, depression, anxiety, loss of libido...

I say we propose legislation that the record labels (e.g. "Def Jam") submit all rap albums to the FDA for approval prior to their release. That'll keep the **** off the shelves for awhile.

Meanwhile, I guess I ought to check to see if my cable co. is doing the same change-up vis-a-vis rap and disco.

Thanks,

Judydoggie

[Videoskooter]

Rap is the Doomsday-machine of the Music-Biz. In the beginning of Hip Hop there were some very good rapsongs. Innovative rhythms and smart lyrics but nowadays Rap is written with a capital C. In my young days supermarkets were playing soft-muzak, musical wallpaper. Today's rapmusic and R&B are replacing those sounds.

It is boring, non-musical and ridiculous. And IMO guys like Puff Daddy are responsable for that. You take a Diana Ross-classic and you talk some bull over it and OMG you have a hit. You're an artist! No you're lazy and tone deaf! That's what I think of most rapproducers.

[DiscoMan]

When I inadvertently hear C-rap by Public Enemy, Ja-Rule (?) and Snoop Dog it makes me **** myself and forget who I am for a coupla hours. :o

Judydoggie, I feel your pain! Believe me. :D

[discoadam]

We have an all disco web radio station here in my home town of Calgary (Canada). If you've lost your digital disco channel (thankfully we still have our disco channel on the digital music service here in Canada), you might like to tune into our Calgary web radio.

http://www.lynxradionetwork.com/listen.htm#.....

[DiscoBall]

I noticed this weekend that Comcast Minneapolis still has the Classic Disco Channel. They still split with Old School Rap and sometimes a 90's thing but otherwise it was on this weekend.

[judydoggie]

Beside the good Canadian station mentioned hereinabove, the site at http://www.xmfan.com/ has a number of different channels that may interest members of this group. And you can listen online for free (of course, the resolution isn't as spectacular as on the real XM apparatus; but it's not bad at all!)

I've been checking MY DMX, and I keep catching the Rap channel. I'm afraid that if I listen to any more of it, I'm gonna want to start wearing $495 sneakers, enormous gold chains purchased in Chinatown, Leather Chicago Bulls jackets 4 sizes too big, and wearin' my pants around my ass so you can see my boxers. Soon, I'll be greeting you all with "Yo, West Hartford, Connecticut Repersents!" You'll know it's all over when I buy a black, tricked-out Escalade and start bragging about all the "ho's" that "be hangin' at my crib."

Yo. Judydoggie. Peace-out.

[DiscoMan]

I've been checking MY DMX, and I keep catching the Rap channel. I'm afraid that if I listen to any more of it, I'm gonna want to start wearing $495 sneakers, enormous gold chains purchased in Chinatown, Leather Chicago Bulls jackets 4 sizes too big, and wearin' my pants around my ass so you can see my boxers. Soon, I'll be greeting you all with "Yo, West Hartford, Connecticut Repersents!" You'll know it's all over when I buy a black, tricked-out Escalade and start bragging about all the "ho's" that "be hangin' at my crib."

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Rap is detrimental to one's health. I was zippin' past VH1 a coupla nights ago and some crapper vid was playin'! I **** myself and forgot who I was for an hour. :oops:

[FreestylePete]

Go to Sirius 68 on Sirius statellite radio THe disco station where disco is all they play except for some old freestyle songs. They Have Joe Cause, Freddie Colon, and Danny Terreos as on air personalities.

[DiscoMan]

Now you've done it! I'm gonna havta get a subscription to Sirrius! :lol:

[markydefad]

I'm curious too.

Coulda ya give us a list of titles they would play in the course of an hour?

How obscure do they get? How deep do they dig? Or is just the Top 100 type songs over and over?

I read that Larry Flick, former Billboard Disco columnist, works at Sirius....does he program?

What's the oldest thing they would play and the most recent?
For example would a pre-1974 track like "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" qualify? Or the danceable rock type stuff played at The Gallery?

Is it Cerrone/Costandinos/Midney never-ending tracks, ad infinitum? :P :P :P

Do they consider the mid-80s HI-NRG sound, Disco?

Do they pretend "House" music is Disco?

I am curious for answers to these questions...and more!!!.

[jam master jay]

The channel I was referring to was entitled "Classic Disco" and was last located at No. 901 on Comcast in Connecticut.

Judydoggie, I have Charter cable, and as recently as yesterday the Disco channel is still on. Though, they split it with "Classic Rap" still. There's an oxymoron for you. :)

[Rugger57]

Ya' know, I was just saying the other day how this world needs just one more RAP channel!

Why split the disco with rap? Don't we get enough rap on the radio, television and whatever other medium available? Why not split it with one of those 8 other mexican channels?

[DiscoBall]

Well, Comcast has finally done it. They changed the music channel lineup and canned the disco/rap channel. Of course they gave rap their on channel but I don't see disco anywhere in the lineup.

[qdearl]

Well, Comcast has finally done it. They changed the music channel lineup and canned the disco/rap channel. Of course they gave rap their on channel but I don't see disco anywhere in the lineup.

Comcast here in NJ, just switched their line up too, but the Disco/Old School Rap is still kickin' it was CH 401 now it's like CH 427 or 28 somewhere around there.

But it's still here, and that's what counts

Are you sure it wasn't just moved up some? Believe me it took a minute of looking before I noticed where it was moved to.

[DiscoBall]

Comcast here in NJ, just switched their line up too, but the Disco/Old School Rap is still kickin' it was CH 401 now it's like CH 427 or 28 somewhere around there.

But it's still here, and that's what counts

Are you sure it wasn't just moved up some? Believe me it took a minute of looking before I noticed where it was moved to.

I will have to look again. Mine was 401 also so maybe they did move it.