Monthly Archives: February 2009

You’ve all heard of the great big Digital Switch Over, right? by Stuart Edwards

If you haven’t, you probably will do soon.
Before the days of Freeview, the chances are that you watched terrestrial television that was broadcast in an analogue fashion. Analogue transmission is seen as incredibly wasteful these days, as you can utilise a similar frequency for a whole number of channels in a digital form, rather [...]

Ficci Frames in Mumbai by Clive Dickens

Absolute Radio is a wholly subsidiary of TIML and of course TIML is a private Indian Media Company owned by Bennett Coleman/Times of India
Each year the Indian Film,TV & Radio Industry get together under the banner of the Indian Chamber of Commerce at a Conference in Mumbai called FICCI FRAMES. This year’s event is happening [...]

Absolute Radio Playlist: 17 February 2009

The new Absolute Radio playlist is now online.
There’s a new entry from the Pet Shop Boys for Love etc. (they receive the Outstanding Contribution to Music Award at the Brits this evening) and Geoff’s Hometime Record of the Week is Warchild: Heroes Vol 1 (available now to buy with all profits going to the [...]

Absolute Radio Playlist: 10 February 2009

The new playlist is now available with a new entry from The Script and Geoff’s Hometime Record of the Week being Love etc. by the Pet Shop Boys (listen again or download the podcast of Geoff’s interview with Neil Tennant from yesterday’s show).
Don’t forget that anyone can have their say about what we play by [...]

A Sticky Wicket

The Infinite Dial, Edison Research’s blog, comments on the recent RAJAR results for Absolute Radio.
(Oh, and it’s obviously a “Sticky Wicket” but we won’t quibble).