Monthly Archives: November 2009

10 Million DAB Sets Sold – Adam Bowie

30Nov

Today the DRDB announced that the ten million DAB set milestone had been reached. By the end of November, more than ten million DAB digital radio sets had been sold in the UK. It took eight years to sell the first five million, while the second five million have taken just 30 months. And Pure [...]

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Posted by adam on November 30, 2009

What’s in a number? By Clive Dickens

30Nov

[Featured in today's Radio Today]
William Rogers, the Chief Executive of UKRD and The Local Radio Company, wrote here recently detailing his reasons for leaving Radio Centre and why he didn’t think the time was right for Digital Radio Upgrade. He accused the entire radio industry of having no route map, and of not considering the [...]

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Posted by adam on November 30, 2009

Christian O’Connell brings brand new iTunes tagging service to listeners

26Nov

Absolute Radio Breakfast Show DJ Christian O’Connell this morning launched a brand new service for listeners which will allow them to ‘tag’ songs they hear on the station, find out what the track’s called and who it’s by, and then purchase them through the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com/uk).
iPod nano now features a built-in FM radio with [...]

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Posted by carrie on November 26, 2009

Playlist: 24th November

24Nov

The playlist is out now.

Rolling Stones – Wild Horses
The Rolling Stones “Wild Horses” featured on their 1971 album Sticky Fingers. Penned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, some people think it was written about Marianne Faithful, something that Jagger has neither confirmed nor denied. This month it has been covered by the global phenomenon [...]

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Posted by carrie on November 24, 2009

ipercast Announces Partnership with Absolute Radio

24Nov

ipercast the leading European specialist in secure content management and delivery for the Web and mobile devices has announced a strategic partnership with Absolute Radio. ipercast will take over and manage Absolute’s Radio’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) and the two companies will continue to work closely together on the development of a range of innovative [...]

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Posted by adam on November 24, 2009