No More A State of Trance?

From TranceAddict.com:

Hey everybody,

I'm actually still on holiday as we speak but I got quite a few worrying messages about my radioshow.

no more?? I don't think so!!

Here's where we stand:
Before I left for Australia I had a meeting with the radio people and they simply stated they wanted A STATE OF TRANCE to continue, in my face. I prepared all radioshows for my absense like i always do (including the YEARMIX which took me two weeks productiontime). I get to Australia only to hear that the show is discontinued, including a beautiful recording of my Sydney NYE set (which was supposed to be ASOT 183). The last rating showed that ASOT had 6,3% marketshare, which makes the cancellation of the show quite hard to understand. But then again, it's not my station, it's not my money, this is something we have to deal with. But it does feel like a stab in the back and a big disrespect for all the years of free work. I do want to thank ID&T for all the freedom they have given me over the years.

The good news is however, we have SEVERAL options to choose from. So far there has been SERIOUS interest from MAJOR stations in Holland and all around the world. It's quite luxurious actually. And the reactions from the people when they heard the show wasn't there (the phone at Armada rang the WHOLE week) was really a nice thing to hear...The most important thing for me now is to think what I want with the show. It's been 3 1/2 years in running now, (the longest on ID&T), the music has changed and meanwhile a lot of people started shows that look awefully like ASOT (which is definitely not a bad thing!). I think it's a good idea to look back and consider the future. Personally, the XXL shows were always my favorites and I loved the live aspect of it all. On the other hand, mostly two full workingdays a week were spend in searching new tracks for the show and I often drove to the studio in Amsterdam thinking: why the hell am I doing this? The fanbase of the show kept the show running so far and kept me awake however and is more important than anything else.

So, what do you want? An English version of the show? More livesets? A new name for the show? A new broadcast time?

ASOT is still here, we just need to think what we want with the future.

Armin van Buuren

From ETN.fm:

I wish I had some good news for you, but unfortunately I don't. Where to begin?

First off let me clear up that we have ALWAYS pulled the ASOT feed LIVE from ID&T radio in Holland, it is NOT an ETN show and we don't have any say regarding it. ID&T radio has decided to change their name back to 'SlamFM' and return to more urban/hiphop/top 40 style programming. They also basically cancelled A State of Trance. They moved the start time of Armin's show 3 hours later and dropped from 2 hours to 1, so the show on SlamFM will no longer be called 'A State of Trance'. We are still unclear on whether it will remain a weekly show or not.

Apparently Armin has moved ASOT to be a part of "The Radio Department" (http://www.theradiodepartment.com) which syndicates shows like John Digweed and Carl Cox's shows worldwide. As of right now this is all the information I have regarding this.

ETN will continue to attempt to relay Armin's show from SlamFM, and of course I'm trying to find a way to pick ASOT back up for us. I will post more information as I confirm it, there is no sense in starting rumors.

If you want to stay completely updated, watch the official ASOT change post on Tranceaddict http://www.tranceaddict.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&forumid=1&threadid=236145

Source:
http://www.etn.fm and http://www.theradiodepartment.com/

Posted by Freezel:

As you all might have heard on the streams, there was no ASOT tonight. I'll write down below what happened tonight and what ID&T Radio said throughout the evening.

These things happened tonight:

- There was NO ASOT 183 tonight. Instead of that ID&T rebroadcasted ASOT 175.
- Still unknown if ASOT is gonna continue in it's original name.
- The format (2 hours: New Tunes + Non Stop Mix) might be there no more.
- Most likely Armin is gonna do a 1 hour set on Thursdays from 23:00 till 00:00 CET.
- Still unknown if this is weekly or occasionaly.
- ID&T said that next week that Armin will be back between 23:00 till 00:00 CET.


So please stop posting rumours. These things have been said on ID&T Radio tonight! Please wait till Armin says what's gonna happen with him and his show.

Other thread (with rumours mostly): TranceAddict.com

I'm not sure what's going on, but it looks like A State of Trance is done, at least on ID&T.

I've tried listening to ID&T before, and it's just not a relavent radio station. Without all their premiere DJs, they pretty much have nothing.

Best of luck Armin, you'll rock where ever you end up.