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.