From Armin, you could try looking these up in other threads of course

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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

And this from an interview with Armin just recently

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What happened to the show ASOT…? Armin - The directors of the station decided to change the station and go more commercial and they kicked my show off. They promised me to my face they would keep the show but when I went on tour to Australia and came back they kicked me off the station and nobody told me. But the good news is there new options, s a lot of diff radio stations all over the world are interested, its pretty luxurious I have a lot of things to choose from. There’s dynamite FM in Russia, XM Radio in the US… there’s several good offers. I just have to make up my mind to see what I want with the show; with A State of Trance. Its been running for 3.5 years , takes a lot of time to do the show, I still love it and want to do it but I need to think of the future, what do I want with my dj career what do I want with the show . I’ve been having bad times with like forums and all the negative stuff about trance, and people are saying trances is dead. It keeps growing and it’s still good but when I started the radio show nobody had a radio show and now everybody has an internet radio show. So I don’t know if I want to consider going on with it. But I won’t leave fans of the show hanging

And that brings you upto date with the news in ASOT as of the 6-2-2005, hope that helps you all out!