Over the course of the last fortnight we have given away more than 200 Pure Highway in-car DAB radios.
The online daily draw has proved to be incredibly successful with almost 25,000 entries and more than 67,000 page impressions on our DAB microsite.
The biggest day for entries was Friday 14th November when we had 15,000 [...]

No - that’s not just us at Absolute Radio talking - but the whole UK radio industry.
Christmas is a very important time for DAB digital radio, with a vast proportion of sets sold over the period as people realise that they make lovely cost effective gifts - from low priced Asda DAB radios to [...]

The new Absolute Radio playlist is published today.

We’re soon to lose our old Virgin Radio domain names, so we thought it would be a good idea to run some reports and see how we’re getting on with reducing the amount of incoming emails to those domains.
We were hoping that our system of bouncing emails back to the senders and asking them to [...]

When I was in my early twenties, and on the dole, I had a friend who worked on the barely-remembered Mike Smith TV quiz ‘That’s Showbusiness’. I sometimes used to go down to recordings at the BBC on Oxford Road in Manchester to avail myself of the sparkling white wine and crudites in the green [...]

The new playlist is out today.

Needs YOU!
Here at Absolute Radio we’re famous for the great music we play. However, what you may not know is that we’ve got our fair share of talented musicians as well who also love that same great music. SO, we thought why not form our own Absolute Radio House Band (…and start a revolution… [...]

Well, we wanted to bring Soho to a standstill with the great cab giveaway this morning and I think we can say Mission Accomplished!
The Pure Highway giveaway has been amazingly successful on-air and online in week one. We’ve had more than 15 000 people enter our online draw in the first week and we had [...]

We’re officially the funniest British radio station on iTunes….
In the comedy charts we have…
Iain at number 13 and number 23 (His choice cut is also in new and notable)
Geoff at 25 and profiled on the page
Tim at 30 and in the new and notable
Christian at 31
Christian’s Men Commandments at 34 and featured in new and [...]

In an X-Factor world, the music industry is a glass of fizzy pop.
It’s almost hypnotic… the bubbles in the murky syrup desperately fighting to reach the top. Rows of streamingly endless pockets of air, one after another, racing for a kamikaze jump to see how high they can reach past the rim of the [...]

The new playlist is available here.

The “Radio at the Edge” conference took place in Millbank, London yesterday. This is an annual conference that looks at new technologies and directions that radio is taking.
It was very well attended, with a variety of interesting guests.
First up was our own Clive Dickens, presenting “From V to A”, the story of this station’s change [...]

As you can see, I’ve been swotting up on my Maori. This is about getting ready and being prepared or something.
After three and a bit years, I leave Absolute Radio at the end of this week to go and work at The Radio Bureau in New Zealand.
I’ve got some learning to do. This was the [...]

So, Barack Obama won. Yay democracy! Hoorah for change! Yippie kay ay for a president not named after a shrubbery! It has been interesting to see how he has done it. This week as we start our first OPEN MIC session where we ask the community what we have done well [...]

Following a review of the Programming strategy across the summer we are saying farewell to Programme Manager, Mark Bingham.
Mark joined Golden Square from the Capital Radio Group on the day Chris Evans left the station, what a baptism by fire! During his time at the company he has made a massive contribution to the UK’s [...]