Monthly Archives: June 2010

Playlist: 30th June

30Jun

The playlist is out now.

30 Seconds To Mars’ new track ‘Closer To The Edge’ moves up to daytime

Categories: Music playlist 0

Posted by carrie on June 30, 2010

Absolute Radio To Create Landmark Documentary, Live Aid 25 – by Tony Moorey

29Jun

To mark the 25th anniversary of Live Aid, Absolute Radio has commissioned a landmark two part documentary telling the story of the 1985 event , staged to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia.
The documentary will look at how the gig came about, what happened on the day, both on-stage and back-stage, and its lasting legacy.
The [...]

Categories: Absolute Radio Music 1

Posted by rhiannon on June 29, 2010

Isle of Wight Festival Stats by Adrian Fitch

29Jun

This year’s Isle of Wight festival was a significant online success for us and built on the good work done by the team last year. The chart above clearly shows the spike we received on the Monday after the festival when listeners wanted to either relive or catch up with what they missed over the [...]

Categories: Music 0

Posted by adam on June 29, 2010

Absolute Radio Now Available on Garmin Sat Nav

28Jun

At first look the Garmin 1490tv looks like any other in-car Satellite Navigation device, however the 1490tv has something extra, an in-built digital tuner giving access to over 50 Freeview TV channels and 24 radio stations across the U.K.
With Nokia, Google, the Dell Streak, the iPhone and many more smartphones now providing satellite navigation, the [...]

Categories: Absolute Radio Music Technology 6

Posted by paul on June 28, 2010

Absolute Radio May Engagement Metrics by Clive Dickens

25Jun

Photo: Michael Lehet, Flickr
Absolute Radio today announced that the brand has now had more than one million downloads of its Baddiel & Skinner Absolute Radio podcasts, sponsored by Sony Ericsson Official Mobile Handset of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™. This is a huge feat since the podcasts were only released 4 weeks ago on [...]

Categories: Measurement 2

Posted by adam on June 25, 2010