Monthly Archives: December 2008

DAB Digital Radio Christmas Sales by Adam Bowie

With any luck, you’ll have heard the DAB digital radio adverts on Absolute Radio. You may well have heard the same adverts on other stations. And you may have seen or heard similar promos on BBC radio and television. So the question is: has it worked? Has there been a massive surge of sales of [...]

Sacrilege & Hallelujah by Paul Flower

For weeks I’ve been convincing myself that it must be some kind of joke; a cruel hoax perpetrated by arch-populist Simon Cowell in vengeance against those he probably considers to be music snobs. I was certain that there was surely no way the limited range of the X Factor winners would take on the beautiful [...]

Top 10 Blur Songs – Voted by Absolute Radio Listeners

1. SONG 2 2. PARKLIFE 3. TENDER 4. THE UNIVERSAL 5. CHARMLESS MAN 6. GIRLS AND BOYS 7. BEETLEBUM 8. FOR TOMORROW 9. THERE’S NO OTHER WAY 10. THIS IS A LOW Just missed out: BLUE JEANS END OF A CENTURY TO THE END SHE’S SO HIGH COFFEE AND TV ABSOLUTE SONG COMMENTS… Huw Williams [...]

Listen To Your Listeners by Adam Bowie

Yesteryday I went along to Broadcasting House – home of BBC radio – to present at an internal BBC departmental conference about what Absolute Radio has been doing since we rebranded. In particular, the theme was about listening to our listeners. That means this blog, our VIP community, the podcast we did with Alistair, publishing [...]

Get Your Rock Off by Anthony Abbott

Us chaps in the Absolute Radio Digital Media team like to think we’re full of good ideas. Unfortunately we can’t claim the credit for The Rock-Off; our battle of the music forums which is proving a hit with online music fans. No, this one has to go to the clever chaps at i-Level. There are [...]