Monthly Archives: November 2008

DAB Giveaway by Paul Sylvester

Over the course of the last fortnight we have given away more than 200 Pure Highway in-car DAB radios. The online daily draw has proved to be incredibly successful with almost 25,000 entries and more than 67,000 page impressions on our DAB microsite. The biggest day for entries was Friday 14th November when we had [...]

Give A DAB Radio This Christmas

No – that’s not just us at Absolute Radio talking – but the whole UK radio industry. Christmas is a very important time for DAB digital radio, with a vast proportion of sets sold over the period as people realise that they make lovely cost effective gifts – from low priced Asda DAB radios to [...]

Absolute Radio Playlist: 25 November 2008

The new Absolute Radio playlist is published today.

Emails To Virgin Radio Domain Names by Stuart Edwards

We’re soon to lose our old Virgin Radio domain names, so we thought it would be a good idea to run some reports and see how we’re getting on with reducing the amount of incoming emails to those domains. We were hoping that our system of bouncing emails back to the senders and asking them [...]

Paul McCartney (and The Beatles) by Geoff Lloyd

When I was in my early twenties, and on the dole, I had a friend who worked on the barely-remembered Mike Smith TV quiz ‘That’s Showbusiness’. I sometimes used to go down to recordings at the BBC on Oxford Road in Manchester to avail myself of the sparkling white wine and crudites in the green [...]