[Again, please note that these are rough notes so there'll be some typos which I'll try to tidy up later]
Jeremy Hunt, shadow DCMS representative, was first up today, and talked about the uniqueness of radio and his radio history. He’s certain that radio has a good future, although he knows how badly commercial radio is [...]

[Note that these are rough notes and might need a little tidying up later on, so apologies for typos and bad English.]
Nicky Campbell kicked off proceedings as host with a few stories about his life in radio before introducing a very nice summary of radio in the last 12 months.
The first panel has Tim Davie [...]

So, we’ve talked about the Idents we made for ITV2’s festival coverage. And we also posted them below for your perusal. Now, we’ve seen them in action up on the big screens and on the box.
ITV’s coverage of the festival reached a peak of 358,000 people on the Friday night. That made it the [...]

Adrian Hieatt hasn’t been the same since he was called ‘cute’ by Bruno at last week’s red carpet premiere…..he now has an agent, eyeliner and dubious modelling deal. Another interesting thing to come out of this meeting of minds is that it has given us our most watched video on youtube.
More than Fifty thousand people [...]

Meet the final three bands in this year’s One Last Dream with Guitar Hero Greatest Hits…
Proteen
They gigged their way around South Wales in the early 80’s and hadn’t seen eachother for over 20 years until a private detectvice found everyone and put the band back together.
Jeep
They claim that Shane MacGowan mentions them in his autobiography.  [...]

Yesterday we uploaded the sponsorship idents that we’ll be using for the ITV2 coverage of the Isle of Wight Festival this weekend.
The purpose of these idents is to promote all of the live events we’re going to this summer. We recently conducted some listener research to find out which festivals and concerts our listeners are [...]

Looking back, upon hearing those words perhaps we should have known we were in for a strange night.
At 7:45 last night Hometime listener Alison had never heard of Florence and the Machine. By 10:45 she was rubbing shoulders with Florence Welch of the afore-mentioned band.
Geoff, Gareth and myself were ‘lucky’ enough to spend the evening [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Producer’s Blog – Phil Critchlow - Creative Director - TBI Media
I’ve been making radio for over 20 years, the first ten at the BBC and independently now for another 12, including an inspiring run at Unique working for Tim Blackmore and Simon Cole. After four years as Director of Programmes there I decided to [...]

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 [...]

If you had a look at the new playlist we sent out yesterday you would have noticed a healthy six additions from musical friends old (Oasis & Snow Patrol) and new (MGMT and Glasvegas). But probably you have noticed too that the playlist itself has got bigger! The second such increase in size since our [...]