Comments on: Last Day of Worldspace in India [Post Mortem]

By: Jayashree Narayanan

Jayashree Narayanan — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 04:10:02 +0000

Resp. Sir, 12-11-2010
The Worlspace radio connection in my house has stopped working from June 1st. 2010, inspite of my payment of subscription renewal for 2 trs. in time to yr bangalore office. Kindly advice me what I should do to either re-connect the same or get a refund, as I heard that you are no more in service in the broadcasting & that u are arranging re-embersement of all amounts paid, due to ur internal problems.
Kindly adive me for getting my 2 yrs. payment & oblige.
Thanking you,
Jayashree Narayanan

By: prabhakaran

prabhakaran — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:38:55 +0000

kindly payback my left amount of subscription
my receiver id no is 270845
my addresss
Annur post
payyanur via
kannur dist
kerala 670332 phone 9847182048 or 04985209751

By: Chandragupta

Chandragupta — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:18:44 +0000

As per Suresh Srinivasan ” Noah Samara” has purchased the assets of World Space Singapore. Is it going to start Satelite Radio in India?
Otherwise suggest any other satelite radio for India.

Thanks

Chandragupta

By: Suresh Srinivasan

Suresh Srinivasan — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:37:49 +0000

What does it mean when stated “Noah Samara has successfully bought back the assets of WorldSpace”… Does it mean that, the operation will soon resume in India…can anyone comment..

By: gajanan

gajanan — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:56:25 +0000

Noah Samara has successfully bought back the assets of WorldSpace.

Court documents filed at the Delaware Bankruptcy Court state that Judge Peter Walsh approved the sale of the Worldspace assets to a company, Yazmi USA LLC, and controlled by Samara. The price was $5.5m.

Read more: Samara wins back WorldSpace | News http://www.rapidtvnews.com/index.php/samara-wins-back-worldspace.html#ixzz0pu7chYCP

By: DhaneshShastri

DhaneshShastri — Thu, 27 May 2010 07:05:15 +0000

Hi all,
I am a great fan of Indian evergreen songs from 50′s through 70′s….
so I brought the WorldSpace Specially for my mom and dad …… my day used to start with radio farishta …. Awesome songs were aired …. specially as compared to the Free FM channels for whom the Ever green means 80s and 90s only ….. and their untolerable talks creates headache ….. I am really missing Radio farishta …. Someone pleaaaaaaaaaaasssssssse ………. buy world space rights for India for the sake of Indian music lovers ……. If I had been a millionaire I would have done it …..

By: anilkumar

anilkumar — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:51:19 +0000

Sir,
I am a fan of worldspace. For me every morning starts with Moksha channel. My house used to be filled with positive vibrations. I got enlightened by spiritual talks on Moksha channel.
Pl revive the operations in India.
anil

By: T.V.VENKATARAMAN, ADVOCATE., CHENNAI, S.INDIA

T.V.VENKATARAMAN, ADVOCATE., CHENNAI, S.INDIA — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:12:34 +0000

FORGET WHAT HAS GONE BY. CAN SOME REAL LOVERS OF MUSIC REVIVE AT LEAST SOME OF THE CHANNELS WITH SOME GUIDANCE. I WOULD BE INTERESTED.

By: T.V.VENKATARAMAN, ADVOCATE., CHENNAI, S.INDIA

T.V.VENKATARAMAN, ADVOCATE., CHENNAI, S.INDIA — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:07:29 +0000

19-5-2010.

I was really surprised at these feed backs. I was addicted to TOBACCO CHEWING for almost 20n years,which I got rid of after I subscribed to Wordspace in 2005. I used to listen to the world space channels – Shruthi, Gandharv, Jhankar, Farishta, KL,RM, ETC. The R.J’s were really great in their presentation. Innovative and realistic (no artificiality). Some of the interviews in Shruti delved into the history of music that one had never heard of. In fact I feel very lonely and am low on morale after the music stopped.It is not the loss of subscription (I paid Rs.2,000/= for a 2 year renewal only on December 15th). The organisation did not have the courtesy to inform well in advance. Only the newspapers flashed it. ANYWAY I AM TOO MUCH INTERESTED IN ITS REVIVAL AT LEAST PARTIALLY. SOME OF THE INSIDERS WHO HAVE REAL INTEREST COULD PROBABLY FORM SOME SORT OF A CORE GROUP WHICH COULD PROBABLY TRY WAYS AND MEANS OF A REVIVAL. I WOULD LOVE TO BE A PART OF IT AND CONTRIBUTE WHAT LITTLE KNOWLEDGE I HAVE. I AM FINANCE AND ACCOUNTS MAN TOO. THE PROGRAMME WITHOUT THE ADS. WERE SIMPLY SUPERB.

By: Maria

Maria — Sat, 15 May 2010 08:18:46 +0000

IF you would want to use it again you just lock on to Afristar signal by pointing to SouthWesterly direction and you will get about 8 info channels including BBC, WRN, NPR etc.,

By: Z A.L.

Z A.L. — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:16:54 +0000

anandmukunda u are one helluva rude freak. If u have nothing to comment, then just read & ignore.

By: Z. Lawyer

Z. Lawyer — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:25:59 +0000

They have had the odesity to even make it crystal clear to the subsriber base on the Indian Subcontinent that no reimbursement will be made to anyone of us. No way to take legal recourse against them as the Co has gone into liquidation and there is no one against whom any action can ow be taken, So just forget it and look ahead now.
WS is History.

By: Z. Lawyer

Z. Lawyer — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:15:28 +0000

I just tried the The SouthWest 45 degree, If only I were correct & all I get is ‘NO BEAM’ in Afrisat, Asiasat or Amrisat. Those guys have not even the odesity to respond to details they temselves asked us to send over to them. I sent my details on 01.01.2010 morning and got no response whatsover. They wanted the Name, Address, email, sub’n a/c # , Date of subcription, amt paid for and the balance nmbr of months left (mine is untill 24.12.2010). And, all these details were to be sent to CustomerServiceUS@worldspace.com
Rakesh Raghavan
Worldspace Inc. 8515
Georgia Ave.
Silversprings MD 20910 U.S.A.

If anyone of you out there in cyberspace get any kind of a response, do let me know please.
They have no heart for the indian sentiment and WS is History for ever now.
I miss Worldspace, and there’s not a thing I can do about it. I listen to a stn on the net all the way from Surinam North-western Latin America !

By: anandmukunda

anandmukunda — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:18:45 +0000

I guess that’s it, then….the worldspace receiver goes in the garbage can and i can go back to listening to that awful, awful All India Radio with their Dj’s shreiking and babbling in their funk of sexual frustrations

By: anandmukunda

anandmukunda — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:13:18 +0000

You are undoubtedly what the brits call’a twat’ are you an english teacher? in that case keep your “lessons’ to the classroom and just leave people to express themselves without some condescending prat like you interfering. If you have nothing else to contribute to what is happening here…..shutup.
P.S. get a life…

By: Z.Lawyer

Z.Lawyer — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:38:42 +0000

I’ve lost the last flicker of hope that some day, maybe, I’ll hear another broadcast by WS. I’ve been following all articles on the net and have been keeping in touch to see if there was any possibility of my sad HITACHI reciever singing at first break of dawn. But none.
I got me this set at the inception of WS in India when I heard WS music in a large new Mall in Pune, so I asked, found out, and got myself a piece of the latest technology, then.
At the time it used to be free-to-air. In mid 2005 they made all of them pay-channels. By then I was addicted to the channels along with my small family.
On 31st Dec 2009 I decided to come home from office and listen to my favourite channels loudly crossing into 2010, little knowing the fate that was to be met with. Sad, really sad. It was only on 1st Jan that I realised the crass reality of radio silence.I just can’t gather myself to listening to all the crap FM stations !!! ever.
Fortunately the reciever set is a full radio system, with FM/MW/SW and WS too, but after the digital qlty of WS, I can’t seem to want to hear anything else.ever.
My once outdated and obsolete CD’s/ player all came out promptly from cold storage, still, I hardly hear the equipment.
I wrote to the US via e-mail to that fooolish indian there and recieved no response either. I’ve lost all hope in him, WOorldspace and everything that stands for satellite radio broadcasts
Feel like Ive been forcefully tornaway from all my favourite channels and heavily deprived.

By: Anshita

Anshita — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:33:19 +0000

worldspace ws my life….and many of my friends were addicted to it to….im jst hoping it comes back soon….

By: Praveen Chitnis

Praveen Chitnis — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:47:07 +0000

Hi all Worldspace fans. I have been trying to persuade a friend of mine who owns a music company to take on the franchisee for worldspace. Hopefully he will explore the possibilities. If that does not work out then I would request all worldspace fans to form a group and approach the US company that owns it and persuade them to start the Indian operations again. Maybe that will motivate them to search for an Indian partner again. Even if it starts with adds I don’t think it will be free. Ya they could start with channels with add and also premium channels for music lovers who dont want that nuisance. And man am I mad at these guys who were at the helm of marketing WS and botched it up. Any suggestions?

By: Priya Pillai

Priya Pillai — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:39:09 +0000

Abrupt stopping of the Worldspace transmission has put me to inconvenience and lss. The hardware has become useless. Compensate me adequately before I seek legal recourse.

By: Vijay

Vijay — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:46:40 +0000

Why can’t the worldspace unit in India simply use all their content and programing and turn it into a web based, online radio station? With almost everyone now having net access on their phones this could have been a way for them to keep their programming going for their customers. Only now, they don’t need to bother about receivers and satellites. All they need is a very good Internet connection. They cut their costs, introduce some advertising (in place on the web channel) and can easily monetize their listenership. Are the worldspace folks listening?

By: Where to sell ?

Where to sell ? — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:50:43 +0000

What can I do with my Sanyo unit ? This one was the most expensive and audiophile grade unit to be sold by worldspace.

By: Anshula

Anshula — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:20:22 +0000

Hi!

Agree that they should’ve marketed it better… I miss my wrldspace radio stations… they were a class above the “free” stations

By: Maria

Maria — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:38:29 +0000

The SouthWest 45 degree recommended is to latch on to Afristar which still pumps out NPR, BBC WORLD, and a few other channels. May not be much just about 4 to 6 channels -but atleast some information flows by a sheer miracle! May be after reading this those would be locked down as well!

By: naresh agarwal

naresh agarwal — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:52:14 +0000

is there is any way to get back the money . the paid amount or the security deposite. as i am a distributor

By: pskmoorthy

pskmoorthy — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:02:21 +0000

I miss my Shruthy. I have been a suscriber from 1995 and now it is all gone!
hope some one buys the assest and Shruthy is back again.
regards

By: Ravi

Ravi — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:48:18 +0000

Same doubt Nilesh – What are the channels that come now

By: Ravi

Ravi — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:45:00 +0000

Dear Anonymous,
I used to listen to Farishta, Spandana and Shruti. Since 1st Jan, the spark in life is gone. Convey my thanks to the RJs for brightening our life. It is definitely one music product that if one listens once will get hooked for life. If I had the money, I would have saved Worldspace for the sake of fellow music lovers.

Ravi

By: subhadeep

subhadeep — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:34:26 +0000

Sad that great people like A.R. Rahman was also pulled into the deception game…