Absolute Radio Extra is a part time radio service similar to BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. The station was launched to broadcast the exclusive live coverage of the Premier League Games under the Rock n Roll Football brand, also broadcast on the main Absolute station and Absolute Radio 90s. The station is also used to broadcast live and pre-recorded uninterrupted sets from artists and bands under the Absolute Radio Live brand, In 2010 the station broadcast live sets from festivals such as V Festival

V Festival

The V Festival is an annual music festival held in England during the penultimate weekend in August. The event is held at two parks simultaneously which share the same bill; artists perform at one location on Saturday and then swap on Sunday. The sites are located at Hylands Park in Chelmsford and...

. Also comedy sets are broadcast by Frank Skinner

Frank Skinner

Frank Skinner is a British writer, comedian and actor. He is best known for his television presenting, often alongside David Baddiel, with whom he also collaborated for the football song "Three Lions."He is a radio presenter on the Saturday morning slot on Absolute Radio.-Youth and early career...

 and Dave Gorman

Dave Gorman

David James Gorman is an English author, stand-up comedian and presenter. He has performed comedy shows on stage in which he tells stories of extreme adventures and presents the evidence to the audience in order to prove to them that they are true stories...

 which presents weekend breakfast shows on Absolute Radio. When off air on DAB, 'Absolute R Extra' points to Absolute Radio 90s.

Presenters

• Russ Williams - Saturday 1.30pm - 3pm
• Jim Proudfoot
  Jim Proudfoot
  Jim Proudfoot is an English football commentator, who has worked on national radio and television since the late 1990s.Proudfoot was born in the West Country on 16 December 1972, but moved to the Midlands at a young age...
  
   Saturday 3pm - 5pm
• Ian Wright
  Ian Wright
  Ian Edward Wright, MBE is a retired English footballer turned television and radio personality.Wright enjoyed success with London clubs Crystal Palace and Arsenal, spending six years with the former and seven years with the latter. With Arsenal he has lifted the Premier League title and both major...
  
   - Saturday 5pm - 6.30pm
• Frank Skinner
  Frank Skinner
  Frank Skinner is a British writer, comedian and actor. He is best known for his television presenting, often alongside David Baddiel, with whom he also collaborated for the football song "Three Lions."He is a radio presenter on the Saturday morning slot on Absolute Radio.-Youth and early career...
  
   - Various
• Dave Gorman
  Dave Gorman
  David James Gorman is an English author, stand-up comedian and presenter. He has performed comedy shows on stage in which he tells stories of extreme adventures and presents the evidence to the audience in order to prove to them that they are true stories...
  
   – Various

Frequencies

Absolute Radio Extra is available on Saturday afternoons on Absolute Radio’s AM Frequencies between 1.30 and 6.30
In a number of areas, particularly in areas where the signal from the main 1215 transmitters overlap with each other, Absolute Radio Extra operates a number of filler transmitters on different frequencies :-

• 1197 kHz - Brighton and Hove, Cambridge, South Devon, Dorset, South Essex, Gloucester, Oxford, Nottingham and Derby, Medway, Merseyside
• 1233 kHz - Berkshire, North Essex, Northampton, Sheffield, Swindon, Gatwick
• 1242 kHz - Teesside, Dundee, Peterborough and Lincoln and around the Wash (Boston transmitter), North Staffordshire and South Cheshire (Stoke)
• 1260 kHz - Guildford, East Kent

Absolute Radio 90s

When Absolute Radio Extra began, when the radio station was not broadcasting, the station was simulcasting its sister station Absolute Radio
But on the 25th August 2010, Absolute Radio 90s, which had launched earlier in June on DAB in London, Essex and along the M4 Corridor (Later Cardiff), Absolute Radio decided to simulcast the new Absolute Radio 90s station on Absolute Radio Extra’s Frequencies on the Digital One

Digital One

Digital One is a national commercial digital radio multiplex in the United Kingdom, owned by Arqiva. , the multiplex covers more than 90% of the populationfrom a total of 137 transmitters...

multiplex, on a trial bases which was supposed to finish on the 30th September 2010, but the sister station continues to simulcast on Absolute Radio Extra’s frequencies, when the station is off air.