Re: Dixons




"DAB sounds worse than FM" <dab.is@dead> wrote in message
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Richard Evans wrote:
DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
Can you remember that Dixons tried a publicity stunt when they said
they'd stopped selling analogue radios and BBC news fell for it even
though Dixons was an online-only retailer and Currys was still
selling analogue radios? Well, Dixons has started stocking them
again:
http://www.dixons.co.uk/martprd/store/dix_page.jsp?page=ProductList&category_oid=-32885&fm=undefined&sm=undefined&tm=undefined&show_all=true&BV_UseBVCookie=Yes

So the gimmick didn't work, and so they quietly dropped it.


Yeah, and Quentin Howard at the time claimed that you couldn't buy
analogue portable radios any more - they're still available in most
electrical retailers... so


--
Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info



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