Free digital (DAB) radio - this Saturday's Daily Mail

Barnetbear

Apparently worth £35, "free for every reader". No further details at present although this link kindly provided by DirtPoorGuy: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/article-1294924/Free-Digital-Radio-reader.html
Probably by token collection.

Anyone beat the price I paid for my DAB radio? - £3.50 at a charity shop on an occasional visit to Chelmsford (which is actually the birthplace of radio [from Mr Marconi], strangely enough). It's better than one I paid £40 for a few years back (picks up more channels).

Invention of radio
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/history-of-radio-who-invented-the-radio.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelmsford#Marconi

shammyjack

If its free, great !

Trust me DAB is doomed . Too expensive to roll out country-wide. FM will be around for years to come.


shammy

Barnetbear

shammyjack wrote: »

If its free, great !

Trust me DAB is doomed . Too expensive to roll out country-wide. FM will be around for years to come.


shammy

I don't arf hope so, I just paid £70 to get my factory-fitted non -DAB car radio repaired! (No other radios can be fitted, so no DAB upgrade will be available.)

DirtPoorGuy

This is a link to the offer

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/article-1294924/Free-Digital-Radio-reader.html

I presume you will have to collect tokens to get one, rather than a straight giveaway.

Could someone tell me what the Daily Mail costs please?

BagelQueen

50p Monday to Friday...not sure about sat/sun...I get it for my Father week days:)

Doc_N

DirtPoorGuy wrote: »

Could someone tell me what the Daily Mail costs please?

Your pride if you're spotted buying it.

foxystoat69

Doc_N wrote: »

Your pride if you're spotted buying it.

Indded, there's a few websites which do generates Daily Mail Headlines which are really funny http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/

But getting back to the thread, I have a Pure One DAB, had a reconditioned one 2 years ago having paid £30 which is a mighty fine radio, so if the picture in the Mail is to believed, it is a really good offer

photome

Theres no money to upgrade the DAB infrastructure so looks like it is doomed

Amanduh

Just saw this on a tv ad, text at the bottom of the screen said you need to collect 60 tokens.

Barnetbear

I sense the old Daily Mail blushes coming on! Often a good read on a variety of topics, nevertheless some people find it embarrassing to buy it because of some of its history of more sensationalist headlines or stories. Older readers avoid it because of alleged support in the 1930s for fascism/Mussolini/Hitler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail#Support_for_fascism_under_Rothermere

Wikipedia: "Lord Rothermere was a friend and supporter of both Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, which influenced the Mail's political stance towards them up to 1939.[24][25]
On 10 July 1933, Rothermere wrote an editorial titled "Youth Triumphant" in support of Adolf Hitler, which was subsequently used as propaganda by the Nazis.[26] In early 1934, ceasing after a meeting at Kensington Olympia in June, Rothermere and the Mail were editorially sympathetic to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists.[27] Rothermere wrote an article entitled "Hurrah for the Blackshirts", in January 1934, praising Mosley for his "sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine"."

But by the end of WWII, of course: On 5 May 1946, the Daily Mail celebrated its Golden Jubilee. Winston Churchill was the chief guest at the banquet and toasted it with a speech.

roddydogs

They know that most people will start collecting and get fed up...60 tokens, no doubt including Sat and Sun(80p/£1.50).......plus postage.