How do you think the cbs could have had more listeners? (Page 1 of 4)

Its been discussed so much but i think the only way would be to confiscate peoples record collections, and/or close down p2p progs and blogs and suspend the mixes. Its not that people werent interested in tuning into the cbs, its just that you couldnt decide what was gonna play at what times, like you can when you yourself are in control. Many people want to listen to something new regularly, and to decide what that will be...being tuned into the cbs for long periods until maybe a tune that you like/get surprised about isnt the best way for that.

I hope that maybe cbs will return as not a 24 hour station, but maybe only braodcast a few hours a night, or a few times a week, running runfunkmuziek etc. Then it wouldnt take up as much time, and people would look at it as more of something you shoudnt be missing i.e. making it more attractive

I agree. I think part of the problem was that everything was too available. You can download every single show from volume 1 to volume 293327487324, so why tune in? Just minutes after the broadcast, things were ready to download. Sure, it's convenient and stuff, but I also think it made the CBS less "attractive". I for one wasn't listening to some shows, because I knew I could download all of them later on.

If something "new" was to be set up, I'd say strip things down. No robotdj.net, no 2387328472348 downloads etc. Make it more "exclusive".

Right. 24 hours a day is okay.

btw (dream-modus on): i hope CBS will return (as ghost) for one show... x-mas party for example...

Interesting statement GM! Also, from my point of view radio isn't a suitable format anymore in this era. Not in the 'classic' format of one 'live' channel. I think a new definition of radio is needed. For example, if you would've measured downloads instead of listeners the succes of the cbs is enormous.

When there was no internet my hunger for unknown music could only be stilled by some radioshows (at that time, it was For Those Who Like To Groove, Dutch Masters, DJ Element and some pirates in the neighbourhood of The Hague).
the sparse broadcasting of really good music and the little information about it added to the magic.

With internet that kind of magic is gone. I never listened to the cbs, because i wanted to listen to and search for my 'own' music. The only times i listened to the cbs was with the christmas top 100, but only in downloaded format so i could listen at the moments i wanted. The top 100 had that special kind of magic to me though! Now I think of it, I listened more to radio in the form of 'podcasts' (stupid term) then to the cbs. Beats in Space for example.

How can you recreate the 'radio magic'?

Maybe the next step for the cbs could be a limited, select collection of (guest-) blogs combined with 'podcasts'.
Limited because I always loose my interest when there's too much too choose from.
A select group of bloggers, selected by those who know (Ferenc!) because we want quality.
Guests because then different people will be able to find something according to their different tastes. I think of the people who delivered regular non stops etc.
Blogs because it's always fun to read a bit more, discover links and/or relations to other kinds of art or news or whatever.
'Podcasts' because what should definitely stay is people talking through socks and playing music. Radio without any talking doesn't feel like radio but like a jukebox!

I think I might be listening more to the cbs in such a format. But in the end it's up to Herr Robot to know what radio should be to make him happy doing it. Otherwise it just will never work.

@gm: the only thing i think should be limited is the amount of blogs/podcasts, not the amount of genres or the radioshows themselves

I'm afraid that if there's no limit, you won't "see the forest through the trees" and there will be no difference between the cbs (or whatever it might be called in the possible future) and the rest of the internet.

I'm a long time C.B.S. listenner, since the beginning, and it has been a shock to me a few days ago... The only one electronic/score/80's/Italo/Disco/ambiant/underground  source that feed and filled my musical culture shut down... I did my best to promote this radio through the years, and I just feel sad right now... But I understand RDJX and all the crew, whatever they will do, I will support them in any way...

liar you have only internet for the last two years

Radio in the car at work or a portable radio in the pocket would have undoubtedly atleast doubled the amount of listeners IMO.

The CBS playlist it was always ridiculously good but at some points I found the really long jingles coming on after every two or three tracks annoying.

More shows like Astrounicorn would have been welcome like something focusing on new electro/techno releases upcoming events and other music news. The cbs was more focused on 80s music (can't blame anyone for that) than following and contributing to the current "scene" - a bit fustrating now cos the so called revival of the late nineties is gone. Nevert-the-less I think 2008 has started off nicely and their surely is quite a lot of quality music out there even worth mentioning and playing on a radio.

i dont think that it was really more focused on the 80s it was just that a lot of new styles of music were created then ( italo, electro, house, techno, synth pop, new wave ) and a lot of amazing music was produced so a lot of 80s  was played. the cbs to me was just about good variety of music, be it something from the 60s by joe meek to the latest bunker. i know the weekend was mostly all disco but the week days had a very rich variety of music especially new stuff.  having said all that i think one of the problems may have been the misconception that the cbs was an 80s italo and disco station. if you were some techno/house head checking the cbs for the first time especially at the weekend and hear something like homosexuality by modern rocketry you'll be a little puzzled. i think the weekends should have been more varied. i know that it had been changed slightly to include a lot of classics but it was still very disco orientated.

i think the home page should have stated the type of music played, it did in the early days but not in the more recent versions. it may have been a little confusing to some at first.

i remember reading a derrick may interview in the 90s and he said  '' the problem is that there is probably only about 300 thousand people in the world that like good music '' i though what a stupid statement, this is just mayday spouting off but when something as good as the cbs  fails to get many listeners i start to wonder, was mayday right!!!!!

More non-electronic music, that's what I have always said \ asked, but then again I think it's just me

non electronic = ?   ethnic instruments? not power on chords? unplugged things? jazz? tribal percussions?

It had everything for everybody...maybe the ears weren't enough in number to consume all the data.