Author Archives: Tumshie

David Tennant reveals he’s become a ‘double dad’ on Absolute Radio

David Tennant popped in to chat to Christian O’Connell on the Absolute Radio breakfast show this morning and decided to reveal a family secret… The Dr Who star told Christian he’s now officially a dad to his wife Georgia Moffett’s son. He’s already father to one year-old Olive, and David told old friend Christian that [...]

HARD ROCK CAFE PRESENTS THE ABSOLUTE RADIO SESSIONS WITH HARD-FI

  Absolute Radio and Hard Rock Cafe have today announced that, in support of The Prince’s Trust, Hard-Fi will be the latest act to grace the stage at London’s iconic Hard Rock Cafe. The number one album selling British band, known for their anthemic tunes like Living for the Weekend, will be performing a live [...]

ABSOLUTE RADIO PRESENTS… TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS: IN CONCERT, TOURING NORTH AMERICA.

There’s a lot of anticipation around Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers return to the UK for two sold out concerts at the Royal Albert Hall on June 18th & 20th plus their headline performance at the Isle of Wight Festival on June 22nd. It’s part of the band’s first extensive European tour in over 20 [...]

HOW DATA IS TRANSFORMING RADIO

The Guardian has published a blog by Chief Operating Officer at Absolute Radio Clive Dickens on the future of audience data in Radio. It looks at how Absolute Radio has introduced new technology to offer our audience & free account holders higher quality audio along with less, but more relevant, audio advertising.  This is achieved [...]

Absolute Radio tie up with Twitter

   We have become the first radio station in the UK to sign up to the Twitter promoted Trend service which today saw the station launch the digital initiative of its 2012 ‘Faces for Radio’ marketing campaign by utilising a #nowplaying hashtag as a mechanic for a high profile 24-hour cash giveaway for Absolute Radio [...]