Tim Shaw debates with Nigel Evans MP, Shadow Culture Minister on Sky News about the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross affair.

This week in London saw The Digital Radio Show 2008, an industry conference discussing the various aspects of digital radio around Europe and the world.
It’s fair to say that DAB has been through the mill a bit recently with Channel Four pulling out of a consortium to launch additional national digital radio services. At [...]

Good news this week in that our podcasts are being promoted on iTunes - on their podcast front page.
I hear you all crying but why’s this important?
The latest industry research shows that 73% of all podcasts are found and delivered via iTunes and so more people will see our podcasts and hopefully sample them. [...]

Every week we randomly select 120 listeners in London from our database to rate a handful of songs and give us some feedback on various parts of the station. Five weeks ago we started asking whether they had seen any advertising for radio stations either on TV, on posters, billboards and busses or online. This [...]

Here’s a link to this week’s new playlist.

Following the success of a new-look Studio A and various Outside Broadcasts (and I could go on) over the past few weeks, the Technology Services department are now full steam ahead into their next project.
As part of our split from SMG and various shared services, we are replacing the entire core networking infrastructure and office [...]

Snow Patrol on Ben Jones’ Monday Night Live
Monday 27th October, 22:00 – midnight
It’s no easy feat to follow up on an album that sold nearly 5million copies worldwide and produced one of the most popular songs of the decade with Chasing Cars but Snow Patrol might just have pulled it off. Judge for yourselves as [...]

I sit here in my new flat listening to Christian and a few thoughts spring to mind. Will I ever sell my house? Are my shoes clean enough to meet new people in my new job? And does Brian ever sound happy?
It’s my first official day at Absolute Radio and if I’m honest I feel [...]

Since Absolute Radio started holding OPEN PLAYLIST MEETINGS we’ve been taking the results very seriously.
Listeners are invited in to One Golden Square to join the debate, as well as clients and other members of Absolute Radio staff from outside the programming team.
Each week so far we’ve discovered a new song, through the meeting, that has [...]

At Absolute Radio – we believe that the radio has a lot going for it, especially in this time where everyone is having to tie the purse strings a little tighter. Why – because it’s FREE.
Yes, FREE!
No 79p downloads, no credit card information to hand out online, no broadband PC access needed to find [...]

Absolute Radio is building a new music and entertainment brand and in order to adapt and meet the challenges ahead we need constantly to look at the business and ensure we are investing in the right areas. This is particularly the case now during exceptionally tough economic times. Some areas of the business have [...]

Ben Jones follows Geoff Lloyd’s Hometime Show on Monday to Thursday, between 8pm and midnight.
Here’s a quick guide to what’s coming up on weekday evenings during October, and in particular, Ben’s last hour, which is always something a bit special.
Thursdays – THE 90S HOUR, 11pm-midnight
A whole hour of tracks from the decade that brought us [...]

Here’s a link to this week’s new playlist.

Great news - please find below a couple of our brand new TV ads. This is part of a multi-million pound marketing campaign. We hope you like them. There are lots more to come, we have about 15 videos that will be appearing on our site and our new Youtube channel, (more of [...]