Talk:Absolute Radio

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How is the correct article title for "Virgin Radio" actually "talkSport"? Is that notice at the beginning of the article correct, or a holdover from an earlier version? - DavidWBrooks 20:47, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Why isn't Al Murray on anymore?--Crestville 18:41, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Schedule - Unencyclopedic

As I have had to do to a good number of radio articles, according to section 1.7.3 of Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, Wikipedia is not a TV/Radio Guide. Can the section be changed to something like Programmes and Presenters? --tgheretford (talk) 22:08, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Format

Is it just me or is the article still too top heavy? I just think there is too much at the top that could do with paragraphing. I don't have time just at the moment, but i may come back to it late if no one else does. Minardi 16:26, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Yep, the lead section easily goes against Wikipedia:Lead section advice. I'll try and sort things out into sections now, if not, I'll add a template to the article. --tgheretford (talk) 16:51, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Rearranged it, probably not perfect! So feel free to correct anything because I needed to add a few things which weren't covered in the article. --tgheretford (talk) 17:09, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Thats much bettter, I just don't have time to sort these kind of things.I did put this up for Wikify but it got taken down, and the lead section problems ignored. Thanks for sorting it. Minardi 06:23, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

AFD on company operating Virgin Radio transmission sites

There's an AFD on Alice Soundtech, a leading UK supplier of studio and transmission equipment for ILR and RSL radio stations (from mixing consoles to AM/FM transmitters) also operating some transmission sites for TalkSPORT and Virgin Radio. People in the biz or in the know can chime in at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alice Soundtech. -- 62.147.39.76 10:30, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Frequency

I'm not sure where to add this but in addition to the 1215AM frequency, it's also found on 1197AM (which I think was the better signal in the South East?). Both used to be advertised together though not listened recently so don't know if they still are. For the record, the signal in between (e.g. 1206AM) is poor, I remember it was barely able to be made out in Cambridgeshire. - JVG 05:57, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Other frequencies are also used - 1197 is used in a number of areas, as are 1233, 1242 and 1260, i've included explanitory text in the main article as it too messy to do so in the side panel, also included a note that the station is not available on DAB in Northern Ireland in that section. KevS 21:29, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Martin Collins

What happened to him? I was unaware he had left. Are we sure this is correct? Minardi 21:29, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

The Big Star

I'm an occasional listener to the station and missed this promotion. The description in the article is confusing and I don't understand what went on having read it. Is the promotion significant enough to merit inclusion in the article and if people believe it is, could it be reworded so someone who's not familiar with the topic is able to understand it. Thanks, Scarletman 22:50, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Article "Move"?

Someone Already created a new Absolute Radio article [1] I think that the new one needs to be deleted and this one just renamed Absolute Radio to keep it all Fluid and to keep the history and talk page ... For now i am going to take the other article and Redirect it to this article Speer320 (talk) 02:22, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

You'll have to request a move on the day the changes happen. The user who created the page alongside the anon user who copied and pasted the information there (I must add this is a violation of the GNU Free Documentation License and would have needed to have been speedy deleted and restored with the full page history of the other article under CSD G6 - this happened with E4 and Virgin Media) have inadvertently made it impossible for anyone but administrators to move the page there, because the page is no longer a simple redirect (ie. it has an article there in the page history now). This happens quite a bit now, and although people do it in good faith, it does annoy me when people jump the gun or don't understand the way (through no fault of their own) that articles are supposed to progress on Wikipedia - ie. you move, not cut-and-paste articles on the day of the changes. I have had articles I have created correctly "deleted" because people do not understand the way things work (in other words, someone placed a redirect and incorporated none of the text into the "new" article, so I restored the old article). One maybe for discussion with the wider community perhaps? --tgheretford (talk) 08:42, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

For the record, I maintain Media UK ( www.mediauk.com ) and was requested on Sunday by a staff member to change the names of the stations over from 'Virgin' to 'Absolute'. I would therefore recommend that "the day the changes happen" is any time from now. (I also used to work there, but no longer). James Cridland (talk) 00:47, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Sources for The people Leaving

All of the Presnters Need sources for Them leaving or moving.. cause From how it is Right now it looks as if Everyone if leaving and it is not sourced at all Speer320 (talk) 23:34, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Absolute Radio

I noticed this morning that Absolute Radio had come up on the display on my DAB radio. The article says the transition will be made on 29th September, and they're advertising absoluteradio.co.uk, but still calling themselves Virgin Radio.

Being more of a Planet Rock listener I did immediately think I had a new station! Soarhead77 (talk) 12:44, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Footnote: Having access to Freeview I just looked at channel 727 and sure enough that shows Absolute Radio

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The closedown on the AM on Friday 20 January 2023

Read also https://mediumwave.info/2023/01/20/united-kingdom-224/ and https://mediumwave.info/2023/01/20/united-kingdom-225/ and the final closedown is on https://mediumwave.info/2023/01/20/united-kingdom-226/ and on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imU8XGuopgk Oxford 1197 carried on broadcasting Absolute today until 1141 when it switched to the retune loop. Source: The sixth posting on https://groups.io/g/RadioCarolineMailinglist/topic/absolute_radio/96307872?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,96307872,previd%3D1674242956260104220,nextid%3D1668926769083936950&previd=1674242956260104220&nextid=1668926769083936950 and read now also https://mediumwave.info/2023/01/26/united-kingdom-239/ and https://mediumwave.info/2023/01/27/united-kingdom-242/ 82.170.17.19 (talk) 14:39, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

"Absolute Radio also broadcasts through the Eutelsat 9B satellite unencrypted signal at 12.092 MHz, H polarization, azimuth 9°E."

Wasn't this the satellite feed to the AM transmitters, that played the closedown loop for months and months until late 2023? Anamyd (talk) 23:13, 28 May 2024 (UTC)