Author Archives: carrie

Allan Lake

27Apr

Week in, week out, Absolute Radio takes great care to respond to complaints, whether they come directly from listeners or through the regulator. Rather than just rebut comments, we do our best to take the appropriate action whenever necessary. This morning Ofcom has ruled on such a complaint and has found the Allan Lake show [...]

Categories: People 37

Posted by carrie on April 27, 2009

Congratulations to Clare Baker!

20Mar

Clare Baker has been shortlisted for the prestigious Marketing Society Awards in the Young Marketer of the Year category! The Marketing Society Awards for Excellence set the standard of marketing excellence in the UK as they are the only awards which recognize marketing excellence across all business sectors making this nomination praise indeed. Clare’s achievements [...]

Categories: Absolute Radio marketing People 1

Posted by carrie on March 20, 2009

The 80s Hour Guarantee by Russ Williams

05Mar

Since we became Absolute radio we have been extremely interactive with the listeners about what kind of radio station they want. We promised to listen and consider and deliberate over their comments and views. They told us they wanted a radio station that didn’t play the same old songs over and over again and so [...]

Categories: Uncategorized 2

Posted by carrie on March 5, 2009

I read the news today, oh boy…

03Mar

In the dark days, “news” was a dirty word in many commercial radio stations. It sent shudders down the spines of Programme Directors and Sales Managers because it couldn’t be sponsored or sold…a waste of valuable airtime surely? Well at Absolute Radio we like news. Even though we’re a music station, we pride ourselves on [...]

Categories: Uncategorized 3

Posted by carrie on March 3, 2009

Christian interviews U2 by James Curran

03Mar

U2 do divide opinion. For some they are self appointed rock messiahs determined to save the Third World when they should be concentrating on making the great music that brought them fame. I’ve always thought that was a harsh view of the band and was probably spawned by commentators sickened by their huge commercial success. [...]

Categories: Music 0

Posted by carrie on March 3, 2009