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I don’t listen to Absolute as much as I used to, but if you listened through their app or signed in their app via Alexa you also got extra songs instead of some if not all of the adverts, along with localised advertising. This did mean you were often a little behind the live feed on DAB or signed out mode, but it’s a good idea and seemed to work well. I think this feature is now more exclusive to the premium version of the app.

That's what I'm trying to understand. Certainly when I've flicked between 90s and 00s during drive time, admittedly online via Sonos, the presenters appear (with the same content) at different times, sometimes even a minute or two difference. You're saying that if you're on premium, you also get "behind" the love show due to the no ads, more songs feature. So surely this cannot be "live live" - maybe (very) short turnaround voice tracking, but not live?

(The reason I was convinced it was not live is that twice I have heard the exact same presenter link on the same station, once on the same day (a few songs apart), and once at the same time 24 hours apart! Although these were both during Covid so the system may have changed for that period)