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Radioplayer Live on Radio 4 PM Programme

04Apr

Last Thursday, Michael Hill of Radioplayer gave Eddie Mair of PM a live demo on Radio 4. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Feel free to listen to the full five minutes, but you could just jump to 4 mins and hear Absolute 80s get a nice mention! (1.2m people hear PM at 17:45 [...]

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Posted by adam on April 4, 2011

Getting A Scoop by Andrew Bailey

28Mar

When our roving-reporter Adrian Hieatt arrived at One Golden Square in 2006 he was a young, polite, bright, fairly unassuming chap who was fresh to the industry but as keen as mustard. Fast forward five years and the ravages of a career in the media are evident for all to see; confident, gregarious, a tiny [...]

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Posted by adam on March 28, 2011

A DAB In Every Ford by Adam Bowie

17Mar

Ford has just announced the brand new Ford Focus. It’ll undoubtedly be one of the best-selling cars in the country with the current Focus being second only to the Fiesta in Ford’s range in 2010, and the third biggest selling car in the UK overall.* The really good news is that every car across the [...]

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Posted by adam on March 17, 2011

Absolute Radio on iPad 2 by Adrian Hieatt

03Mar

Absolute Radio was down at the UK launch of the iPad 2 last night, and we were among the first people in the world to get our hands on the new gadget. In fact, absoluteradio.co.uk was one of the first websites any iPad 2 in the world visited after being revealed to the public. We’ve [...]

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Posted by adam on March 3, 2011

Annabel Port: Ten Years at One Golden Square by Geoff Lloyd

14Jan

Ten years ago tomorrow, Annabel Port walked through the doors of this radio station for the first time. I have no memory of her arrival: I was in a drying-out clinic at a semi-secure mental health facility. She was here for a couple of weeks work experience, which segued seamlessly into full-time employment. She’d previously [...]

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Posted by adam on January 14, 2011