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So the prestigious Sony Awards were last night. Our host Clive Dickens opting for a black suit with black t-shirt giving himself the look of an extra in Miami Vice.  Donnach’s braces were [...]

Cementing Absolute Radio’s well deserved reputation as digital innovators, the station last night picked up an Arqiva Commercial Radio Award nomination for the Absolute Radio MiniAmp. In this category we’re up against Global Radio Creative Technology for their iPhone Application and talkSPORT for their talkSPORT magazine.
The well respected commercial radio industry awards, now in their [...]

THE CHRISTIAN O’CONNELL BREAKFAST SHOW
Join Christian and the team every morning from 6-10AM for the Little Business of the Week, Guitars for Schools and The Kettle Classic to discover why Christian has been nominated for the Entertainment Award at the Sony Radio Awards 2009.
THE NO REPEAT GUARANTEE
We never play the same song twice – each [...]

Yesterday saw Mediaguardian host Radio Reborn 2009, with a wide range of top radio industry people discussing the state of radio and its future.
The morning saw keynotes from Tim Davie, director of audio and radio at the BBC who said that radio needs to act now to avoid a future of managing decline.
With Andrew [...]

For Absolute Radio, it’s all about depth.
We would like to provide a service to enrich our listeners’ lives. That begins with entertaining programmes of the sort Frank Skinner is presenting on a Saturday morning, the coverage of a summer full of amazing live music coming soon, or our daily promise to play more songs with [...]

Following our massive haul of seven nominations in the Sony Radio Academy Awards this year, here are some extracts from each of our entries:
Entertainment Award - Christian O’Connell

Entertainment Award - Geoff Lloyd

Entertainment Award - Tim Shaw

Listener Participation Award - Iain Lee

Promo Award - Discover Real Music

Live Event Coverage - Absolute Coldplay

Music Special Award - Absolute [...]

Last night saw nominations announced for the 2009 Sony Radio Academy Awards which are the equivalent of the BAFTAs for Radio, and Absolute Radio had a great night securing a record haul of nominations - seven in total - more than the station has ever had before, and more than any other commercial radio station [...]

Much like the legendary BBC Duty Log, Absolute Radio has its own feedback box and where possible, we try to reply to every single email we get sent. Even emails like these…
Dear Absolute,
Your playlist is terrible. You may have the ‘the no repeat guarantee’ (a message which ironically you repeat over and over) but [...]

In January we included a series of our Absolute features in a national research study conducted by Munro Global. They spoke to a representative sample of 800 people aged 20-54 across the country and found that We Pay Your Bills was one of our best performing features. Nationally, 5% of all 20-54s associate the feature [...]

We wanted to tell you first: alongside our own network of stations Absolute Radio will sell Planet Rock’s airtime and online advertising from 1st April 2009. This means media-buyers will be able to target a compelling national audience of music-passionate, male-focused listeners in a core demographic of 30-54 year olds in one streamlined media-buy from [...]

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 at the [...]

On 2nd April 2009 Keane will make history with the world’s first ever live webcast in 3D, from Studio 1, Abbey Road Studios, London.
The multi-million selling, award-winning band Keane are recognised for championing groundbreaking ideas. In 2006 they were the first artists to release a single on a new format - the USB stick, [...]

Kelly Jones has been talking about Absolute Radio on his blog (24/2/09).
We’ve had some great feedback about our U2 coverage from our peers in the radio industry. Nik Goodman talks about it here, and radio producer James Stodd.
Entertainment Weekly reports the end of an era as the last US Virgin Megstores close down.
And finally, with [...]

Who’s Calling Christian is back, and it’s bigger and better than before.

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The best of what’s coming up on Absolute Radio over the next month:
** STOP PRESS**
U2
Interview on the Christian O’Connell Breakfast Show
Thursday 26th February, 06:00 – 10:00
Bono and The Edge join Christian O’Connell to talk about all things U2 in 2009, their new album ‘No Line On The Horizon’ and whether Batman would beat Spiderman in [...]