Monthly Archives: August 2009

One Week To Go… by Anthony Abbott

[Note: This is aimed at Absolute Radio staff and freelancers. But everyone can enter a team in our main £20,000 Fantasy Football game!] Hello, A reminder that you have just one week left until the start of the new season, which means that you need to pick your Rock & Roll Fantasy Football team for [...]

More On That Word…

Tony Moorey talked the other day about what happened when David Cameron paid us a visit a week ago. We’ve put together this reel of just some of the coverage generated on mainstream TV. Also a very funny song from Mitch Benn from Radio 4′s The Now Show. Twat var so = new SWFObject(‘/audio/player.swf’,'mpl’,’500′,’340′,’9′); so.addParam(‘allowscriptaccess’,'always’); [...]

Summer of Live by Charlotte Burgess

We’ve been giving away live music every day this summer. Impossible? Well with ticket giveaways on air, online, open broadcasts from the live events themselves, interviews with the artists online, not to mention all the fantastic live tracks from our archives, how else would you describe it? With Virgin media’s V Festival only two weeks [...]

RAJAR Q2 2009

• Absolute Radio has posted a steady performance • The Christian O’Connell Breakfast Show is up 2.9% nationally and 5.2% across the network • The station’s national listening via a digital platform is 48.2% vs. the industry average of 21.1% Absolute Radio has delivered a steady performance (-0.1% reported reach and -3.1% reported hours) in [...]

New Talent… Mark Crossley

Mark Crossley (born 16 June 1969) is an English-born Welsh football goalkeeper, who recently signed for Chesterfield in League Two as a Player/Coach. Um no… sorry, Mark Crossley is the guitarist from 1980s and 1990s Canadian goth rock band ‘National Velvet’. That’s not right. Mark Crossley, recent graduate of Nottingham Trent University doesn’t have his [...]