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Although the record industry in [[UK|Britain]] wanted the public to buy its records, it had to give them some airtime in order for the public to know that they existed. To that end the record industry used the commercial nighttime signals from [[Radio Luxembourg (English)|Radio Luxembourg]] whose powerful AM signal could be heard in the [[United Kingdom|UK]]. The "208" shows on Luxembourg were mainly fifteen minutes to thirty minutes in length and presented under names such as the ''[[Decca Records]] Show'' or the ''[[Capitol Records]] Show''. These prerecorded programsprogrammes resembled what later became known as [[Infomercials]], because they normally only featured parta little over half of the record which came, with heavy plugging for the record nametitle, label,artist and even its numberlabel.