Category Archives: Technology

Absolute Radio Deepens its Commitment to Football

Absolute Radio is deepening its commitment and adding significant depth to its exclusive Premier League Football rights with a new deal with broadcaster & footballing legend Ian Wright which will see him broadcasting across Absolute Radio, Absolute Radio extra and Absolute Radio 90s, combined with a unique digital strategy which will see a new, in-depth [...]

Smartphone Research – November 2010

Here are some interesting facts from our recent Smartphone research: 57% of our London listeners already own a smartphone with another 28% intending to get one. iPhone is the most widely owned smartphone currently at 33%. iPhone is the most wanted next phone at 39%. 34% of non-smartphone owners and who intend to get one [...]

New DAB Encoders being installed at Absolute Radio

Geek Alert! At some point in the very small hours of tomorrow morning we are moving the Absolute Radio and Absolute 80s DAB digital services over to brand-new ‘Coding Technologies’ encoders. Both of these services currently exist on hardware encoders, so moving to a more efficient software encoder allows us to delivery the same (if [...]

Freeview viewers – Time for a retune!

If you’re a Freeview viewer, you may have seen the Freeview notice on your TV last week alerting viewers to retune Freeview receivers. The actual notice read “changes to services are happening in mid-November. To ensure you continue to receive all available channels please retune this receiver anytime after 5pm on 15th November.” There were some changes [...]

Google TV – The new kid on the IPTV block

A few weeks ago we got our hands on the new Apple TV, now Google have released their version of connected TV devices and we‘ve got one in the lab. Google TV is available as a set-top box and also powers Sony’s new Internet TV line, as shown in our video below. Available only in [...]