Category Archives: Absolute Radio 90s

Podcasts on your FM radio thanks to the Nokia N8

Our friends at Nokia are due to launch their new N8 handset shortly and we lucky folks in the One Golden Square Labs team have got our hands on one early. Apart from a huge improvement in social networking integration the N8 boasts a pretty exciting feature in the form of a FM transmitter with [...]

‘Ping’ Absolute Radio On Apple’s New Social Network For iTunes by Dan Thornton

If you’re one of around 160 million iTunes users around the world, or you follow technology news at all, you’ll probably be aware that Apple has released a new social network within iTunes. Named Ping, it lets you follow friends and artists and see what people are buying and recommending. It’s an interesting innovation, and [...]

Variety is the Spice of Absolute Radio 90s

ON 21st June 2010 Absolute Radio launched it’s latest digital incarnation, Absolute Radio 90s which had been created, developed and put to air in just 6 weeks of late nights, much strong coffee and a great deal of internal deliberation and debate – do you remember those test transmissions?. Two months  later  and I think [...]

Absolute Radio 90s UK – by Tony Moorey

The UK’s Only 90s Radio Station is just two months old, but in that time has already built up a loyal and often vocal fan-base. The two most frequently asked questions are:   ‘Can more songs be added to the playlist?’ ‘Will I be able to listen on DAB where I live?’ The answer to question [...]

Absolute Radio Network posts highest reach since Q4 2008 with over 2 million listeners

Absolute Radio’s network reach is back up to over 2 million listeners – the highest since Q4 2008.   The Absolute Radio network posted a 10.9% increase quarter on quarter, 7.5% year on year with 2.02 million listeners with a 13.9% year on year increase in listening hours (+4.5% quarter on quarter).   Listening to [...]