I'm more or less looking forward to tomorrow's Advanced Radio lectures where we'll be making a start practically on our station and hopefully making a final decision on the survey to send out to potential listeners. I'm also hoping we'll be able to have a go at a few other things as well such as getting used to the team I'll be working with in the studio although I'm sure it won't be too much of a problem.
However it's the arrival, or should I say return of a station to the airwaves that I'm looking forward to tomorrow night when at 7pm Jazz FM makes a long awaited comeback.
To be fair it was just over three years ago since Jazz FM made it's bow as a station but the overall sound and individuality has been missing since GMG came in back in early 2003 and started to add tracks by George Michael and Elvis Costello to the playlist.
They also removed the chameleon branding and stunning jingles by David Arnold, in favour of a rather inferior set of sung jingles by Bespoke which don't sound too disimilar to those now used on Smooth Radio which occupies the 102.2 frequency in London.
One of which is used on Andy Peebles' "Soul Train" show on the station.
The good news however is that the former along with a few smoother sounding jingles based on the same theme will be back on the station and I'm looking forward to hearing how it will all gel together with the specialist shows starting later on in the week from the likes of Steve Quirk, Mike Chadwick, Peter Young and Robbie Vincent making a return to the airwaves.
With things getting more and more hectic this semester, it looks like the station has come at the right time and will be ideal for when I need to wind down as well as introducing me to a few musical gems.
Here's hoping it will last.
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