Comments on: The Prestige Factor by Ben Matthew

By: Dan R

Dan R — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:30:45 +0000

“license agreements”

You seriously telling me the Real servers are properly licenced these days? =-O

Anyhow, choice is good. Good luck with the changeover those at Golden Square.

By: Siggi

Siggi — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:07:05 +0000

I listen to the radio station at one Golden square a lot online here in Iceland and i always listen to the OGG stream on my Winamp, i think it sounds good. I respect the radio station at One Golden square and the team who works there for offering all these online listening options…

By: adam

adam — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:10:25 +0000

Virgin Radio actually started streaming via the internet in 1996 – and was the first station in Europe to do so. But that pre-dates James Cridland a little. John Ousby was the person who got us up online, and like James, he works at the Beeb now.

By: Marty from new yawk

Marty from new yawk — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:40:30 +0000

I’m not a techie nor even remotely normal but I do appreciate listening online (a lot).

If James Cridland had not invented the internet nor allowed for Virgin Radio to have online capability, I’m not sure what I w/b doing otherwise.

Maybe I should do a story called “It’s a Wonderful Station” showing what life w/b like w/o the station formerly known as Virgin Radio?

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:10:44 +0000

Hell, even in the U-S-and-A, I had the Nokia S60 app to let me listen to three Virgin stations on my fat Nokia 6620 phone. Hell on the battery and there was no headphone jack and the speaker sucked, but it was *there*.

I’d give plenty for a $NEWNAME iPhone app, I can tell you that. Meanwhile I’ll just have to try the AAC+ stream, just for the sake of my own snobbishness…