Downtown Radio

Downtown or DTR as it is also referred to, is a radio station which is aimed (intentionally or not) at old people. The music they play is often called a «classic» which to a young person classic means an album that defied the boundaries or brought music to a new level. To Downtown, a classic can often mean Lovely Day by Bill Withers or Eternal Flame by the Bangles.
For those of you who are aware of Magic FM, this is pretty much a carbon copy but with Norn Irish people and some local news thrown in pretty much all the time for good measure.
Downtown is also famed for playing quite a lot of country music which has become an unfortunate ritual in our house on a Sunday evening because my dad takes quite an interest in listening to it more so to annoy everyone else rather than because he genuinely loves it.
They take a lot of requests and they do it all with a smile which cannot be faulted. They are working against the big old BBC so to have such a well-​listened to radio station and not be part of the BBC is impressive in itself.
It can be accused to being too easy listening at times and often sounds like one of those free cds you used to get in the paper years ago before Prince came along and ruined free CDs for everyone.
Downtown is the sort of music you stick on if you are working away and like a bit of background noise. Although they do play that horrible shortened version of Sweet Child of Mine by Guns n Roses which is enough to send any music fan over the edge, they still play nice light-​hearted music perfect for doing the housework or cooking the dinner.