Category Archives: Brands

Absolute 80s Becomes a National Station and Absolute Radio 90’s Launches

Today we have two key announcements – Absolute 80s is set to become a national station and we are also launching a brand new radio station  – please welcome: Absolute Radio 90’s!
Due to the huge early success and popularity of Absolute 80s with this week’s RAJAR figures, showing that the station already has 264,000 listeners, [...]

Sony Radio Academy Award Nominations by Clive Dickens

Last night saw the announcement of the nominations for the Sony Radio Academy Awards 2010 and an amazing achievement for Absolute Radio, scoring more in one year than any commercial station in the 28 year history of the awards.
In total, Absolute Radio and Absolute Classic Rock received nods in over a quarter of the categories [...]

Tracking by Adrian Fitch

Every week we ask a panel of London listeners aged 25-44 to give us feedback on a selection of the music on our playlist and as part of that process we usually ask a handful of additional insight questions about the station and the brand. Recently we repeated a series of questions we’d asked twice [...]

Absolute Radio Reaches ½ Million Mobile Apps Download Landmark

Absolute Radio has now had more than ½ million (510,000) mobile application downloads! This is a huge feat since the first application (the iAmp for iPhone) was launched just 11 months ago. We now have 11 mobile applications available on four mobile platforms – iPhone, Android, Nokia and Blackberry as well as being tested & [...]

Sony Ericsson to Sponsor Absolute Radio’s Baddiel and Skinner Summer of Football Podcasts and Shows

Sony Ericsson, the Official Mobile Handset of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, has signed an exclusive deal with Absolute Radio to sponsor our series of podcasts and live shows to celebrate the summer festival of football which will be fronted by none other than Frank Skinner and David Baddiel.
The partnership will generate unique Baddiel and [...]