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The Evoke Mio Striped Petal- Buttercup is our latest collaboration with designer Orla Kiely. It looks great, has high quality digital sound and coordinates  with our other Abacus and Stem print radios.

But the Evoke Mio Buttercup is more than just a pretty face! It boasts a range of features including a kitchen timer, auto-dimming OLED display and a USB connector for future software updates. But did you know it also has an auxiliary input?

Simply plug in your MP3 player or iPod and you can listen to your own music as well as 30 digital/FM radio presets!

For more information on Orla Kiely Striped Petal Buttercup, please see here.

SRP £149.99 Available at John Lewis & Orla Kiely, instore and online.

For hi-res images and samples, please contact sarah.riley@pure.com.

Last week we were asked along by the lovely Amy Cutmore, consumer Editor of Ideal Home Magazine and Girl About Tech blog, to demo the Jongo S3 during her talk in the B & Q theatre, at the Ideal Home Show. The scheduled talk on Tuesday and Thursday morning entiltled ‘Tech Trends 2013′ was a great insight into home gadgets of the not-so-distant future.

Amy talked about Smartphone apps that control your heating and household appliances whilst you’re away from your house, clever ovens and fridges to help plan our shopping and cooking dilemma’s and many more ingenious household products coming our way to make life all together more convenient.

We demonstrated the Bluetooth one-to-one feature of the Jongo S3 during Amy’s section on music streaming and were able to turn the volume up and to illustrate and scroll though the 4 audio modes which include 360 mono and stereo, front-firing stereo and bass boost for outdoor listening.

Not forgetting you can also stream music using Jongo over a Wi-Fi network. For more information on the Jongo S3 visit www.pure.com

For Amy’s tech blog visit http://girlabouttech.com/

Our latest Evoke Mio by Orla Kiely in Striped Petal fits perfectly with Orla’s extensive homeware range and makes a fab designer addition to any household, but did you know you can insert a ChargePAK for portable listening?

Once the ChargePAK is inserted, you can freely dot the radio anywhere in the house with no unsightly cables on view! If the weather’s nice, you can take the radio outside to listen to your favourite station whilst doing the gardening or whilst relaxing of course!

Other features include an input for iPod or MP3 player, kitchen and sleep timers and 30 presets.

SRP £149.99- available online & instore at John Lewis and Orla Kiely.

For more information on Striped Petal – Buttercup, please see here

For hi-res images or samples, please email sarah.riley@pure.com.

The Charles Parker Day 2013 took place on Friday 22 March at the University of Salford, MediaCity. The event celebrates young people and sport on radio and this year is the 50th anniversary of two of the famous Radio Ballads that Charles Parker made with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger – ‘On The Edge’ (about teenagers) and ‘The Fight Game’ (about boxing).

The day included sessions on engaging young people in radio features – including the world première of ‘On The Edge Too?’ a 21st century remake of the original ballad commissioned from last year’s Charles Parker Prize winner and celebrated the work of student radio feature makers throughout the UK. Gold, Silver and Bronze Prizes were awarded to the winners with the best feature. Prizes included a SADiE editing suite for the Gold award and Pure donated special edition One Mini digital and FM radios with a union jack design for all three winners. Prizes were awarded as follows:Bronze: Joanne Fowler, for “Speaking Out”, Silver: Flora Neve, for a feature about silence and Gold: Hannah Walker Brown, for “Four Metal Plates”.

There was also a celebration of the Manchester Radio Features Unit – from Olive Shapley to the present day (with producers past and present) and a deconstruction (and ‘live’ recreation) of one of last year’s BBC Radio 2 Olympic Radio Ballads with producer John Leonard.

For more information on Charles Parker Day, please visit http://www.cpatrust.org.uk/

For more information on One Mini, please see here

Internationally renowned fashion designer, Orla Kiely has applied her instinctive love of pattern, colour and texture to our iconic Evoke Mio radio. Our latest Striped Petal Buttercup edition looks pretty in any room of the house, sounds great and is packed with features too. But did you know it also includes a handy kitchen timer??

For all the cool cooks out there, you can pop your Orla radio in the kitchen and use the timer to keep an eye on the cooking. You can sing along to your favourite digital/FM radio stations (with 30 pre-sets to choose from) and even plug in your iPod/MP3 player as it includes an auxilary input.

SRP £149.99 – available online and instore at John Lewis & Orla Kiely

For more information on Striped Petal- Buttercup, please see here

For hi-res images or samples, please email sarah.riley@pure.com

Choosing a gift for Father’s Day is a difficult one. Do you say ‘thanks Dad!’ with chocolate, slippers or football match tickets? I suspect most Dad’s are pleased to be thought of and receive anything at all. It’s the gesture that counts! Right?

For all those discerning and deserving Dad’s out there who love music and radio, we have a range of gestures to suit all budgets and tastes.

For Dads who like the freedom of streaming their music from their smartphone or tablet to every room of the house, or even the garden, Jongo S3 is the answer. This portable, wireless speaker with WiFi and Bluetooth has 360 sound making it great for communual and outdoor listening. Jongo products use Wi-Fi to stream perfectly synchronised audio within a single or multiroom environment and users can simply add extra Jongo speakers or adapters on the same Wi-Fi network to build their multiroom system. Bluetooth allows users to stream content from any audio app on their smartphone or tablet, including locally stored music, to a single Jongo product. SRP £169.99.

Did you know 20% of radio listening is done in the car? so why not bring clear, high performance digital radio to your Dad’s ears whilst he’s driving by giving him a Highway 300Di. It works with his existing car hi-fi and is discretely installed behind the dashboard or in the glovebox with extension cables run to convenient points for connecting his iPod, iPhone, iPad, USB music device or a USB memory stick. SRP £179.99 (excluding installation).

Any Dads who enjoy keeping fit, embracing the great outdoors or like to listen to live sports commmentary at the football match, would be pleased to receive a Move 2500.

This compact, light, digital and FM radio is ideal if he loves radio on the move. Move 2500 looks great and sounds fantastic, thanks to its supplied in-ear, noise-isolating headphones. Includes a rechargeable battery for hours of portable listening. SRP £79.99

When there’s a knock at the door or events interrupt his favourite programme,  One Elite Series 2 has a handy pause and rewind feature so he doesn’t have to miss a thing.

Pure One Elite Series 2 also has an iPod input and takes an optional rechargeable battery for portable listening. SRP £84.99

Packing to go camping is a nightmare for anyone but who wants to go without a little background music to drown out the rain? One Mini Series 2 is small in size but has been designed to deliver punchy audio and volume. It will provide hours of portable listening when fitted with the optional rechargeable battery pack. SRP £49.99

Sensia 200D Connect, a  fully featured portable music streaming and radio system,  uses its large colour touchscreen to add another dimension to his music collection, radio and more. He can listen to music streamed from an Apple or Android device or from his PC or Mac; listen to internet radio, digital radio, or FM; play on-demand radio programmes, podcasts and ambient sounds; and stream millions of music tracks from our Pure Music subscription service. Whilst investigating new music genres, the touchscreen also brings access to social media apps Twitter and Facebook, news and weather and RSS feeds. SRP £249.99

For Dad’s on the move, Move 400D DAB digital and FM radio is a go-anywhere radio with superb battery life. With support for all current European and Australian digital radio standards and a handy travel alarm, Move 400D is an ideal travelling companion. SRP £89.99

For samples or high res images please contact sarah.riley@pure.com

This week I felt like I was heading back to IFA as I flew to Berlin for Radiodays 2013 at the Berlin Congress Centre.

Radiodays Europe is the meeting point for the the international radio industry, bringing together broadcasters, manufacturers and organisations such as World DMB to discuss what is going on in the radio industry, including the status of digital radio. The 2012 conference in Barcelona, Spain had 800 participants from 45 countries and this year saw numbers rise to over 1000. Radiodays Europe is the largest and most important radio conference in Europe, with top expert speakers and sessions with a wide range of topics including mulitplatform radio, the digital future, working with music services and strategies for smartphones.

Tony Wadsworth – Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry presents the music industry keynote

World DMB showcase our products at Radiodays 2013

There was a positive message about digital radio at this year’s conference with Jan-Willem Brueggenwirth, CEO of Dutch radio station Radio 358, telling delegates that DAB+ is the next big thing for radio in The Netherlands, where full DAB+ nationwide coverage will be achieved by September 2013.  Marius Lille, Head of Radio at NRK (Norway) also reported that success between government, public and private braodcasters mean their planned 2017 FM switch-off is well underway. The situation in Germany remains positive with Michael Reichert from ARD (consortium of public broadasters) reporting that 240 different digital radio models are now available in Germany, where it is anticipated that more than 1 million receivers will be sold by the end of 2013. Ford Ennals from DRUK (Digital Radio UK) also supported this message by announcing that new Audi models in the UK will have digital radio fitted as standard from April 2013.

As well as attending the conference I also had some time to visit Saturn, one of our retail partners in Germany, to see our products in action!

I stayed at the Park Inn at Alexanderplatz, which we stay in when we’re at IFA, but this year I got great view of the TV tower which looked great by night and slightly white by the time I woke up in the morning thanks to all the snow!

The next Radiodays Europe will take place March 23-24, 2014, in Dublin, Ireland. For more information visit the Radiodays website.

Sensia 200D Connect (SRP £249.99) is our clever rugby ball shaped portable music streaming and radio system. It has many functions including an input for your iPod or Mp3 player and integrated Facebook and Twitter apps. But did you know you can also use it to record live radio?!

press the remote to record

With one simple touch, you can record your favourite live internet or digital radio to a USB stick and then listen back on another device, like in the car or on a computer. The Sensia 200D Connect comes with a handy little remote control which includes a record button, so you can quickly capture & record live radio. Note: a 2GB USB memory stick can record around 15 hours of digital radio (based on typical 128 kbps broadcast recorded, USB memory stick not supplied).

Sensia 200D Connect is one of our devices that is Pure Connect compatible, which allows you to stream music, choose from thousands of radio stations and listen to on-demand programmes and podcasts. You can also enjoy all this content on an iPhone, iPod touch, iPad or Android device running the freePure Connect app and on the Pure Connect website.

For more information on Sensia 200D Connect, please see here

For hi-res images or samples, please email sarah.riley@pure.com

We were proud sponsors of the digital radio personality award at yesterday’s TRIC Awards 2013, which was won by BBC Radio 2 breakfast host Chris Evans.

The event, which was held at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, was attended by delegates from the radio and television industry along with some famous faces.

Winners on the night included Peter Andre, Carol Kirkwood, Clare Balding, Shane Richie, Ant and Dec, Countryfile, Celebrity Juice, Silent Witness, Mrs Brown’s Boys, I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, This Morning, Eamon Holmes, Lisa Snowdon and Dave Berry (Capital Breakfast) and Sian Williams.

The legend that is John Craven collects the award for Countryfile

Claudia Winkleman and the Strictly team collect their award

We took some journalists to the event as well as our friends from Digital Radio UK, music and broadcasting industry and retailers. We all enjoyed a great meal and some celebrity spotting – the highlight for me being my photo with the cast from Call the Midwife who won HD Drama Programme of the Year.

Rich Melville, Andrew Williams and Jenny

Hannah Bouckley and Tom Newton

Chloe with the cast of Call the Midwife

Jane Ostler (DRUK) poses with Louis Smith (Strictly)

Here are a few more photos from the evening.

Jenny with Declan Donnelly

Chloe with Keith Lemon

No Pure Insider Blog is complete without a photo with Sean Hannam who was at the event!

Nick Hucker (Pure) with Jane, Ford and Aaron from DRUK

For more information on the TRIC awards visit – http://www.tric.org.uk/main/2013winners.html

Start the summer season with a  funky new radio to listen to whilst catching some sunshine! Evoke Mio Striped Petal edition is our latest digital and FM radio by internationally renowned designer Orla Kiely.

A fab radio for those who love things retro, the Evoke Mio features Orla’s Striped Petal  Buttercup print on the front and back  and oozes flower power!

Evoke Mio Striped Petal is small but stylish with its mirror chromed handle, walnut veneered cabinet and white fascia. This digital and FM radio takes an optional Charge PAK for portable listening – perfect for picnics in park or listening in the garden. Evoke Mio Striped Petal (SRP £149.99) has a range of features including an input for your iPod/MP3 player so you can sing along to your own tunes as well as 30 radio presets.

Not forgetting our other Orla print radios – we have the chic Stem Print or the Abacus flower that contrast nicley with the Striped Petal  and fit perfectly with Orla’s extensive homeware range.For our full range of Orla Kiely radios, please see www.pure.com 

For more information on Evoke Mio – Striped Petal, please see here

For hi-res images or samples, please contact: sarah.riley@pure.com