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Here at Absolute Radio we’re famous for the great music we play. However, what you may not know is that we’ve got our fair share of talented musicians as well who also love that same great music. SO, we thought why not form our own Absolute Radio House Band (…and start a revolution… [...]

Well, we wanted to bring Soho to a standstill with the great cab giveaway this morning and I think we can say Mission Accomplished!
The Pure Highway giveaway has been amazingly successful on-air and online in week one. We’ve had more than 15 000 people enter our online draw in the first week and we had [...]

The “Radio at the Edge” conference took place in Millbank, London yesterday. This is an annual conference that looks at new technologies and directions that radio is taking.
It was very well attended, with a variety of interesting guests.
First up was our own Clive Dickens, presenting “From V to A”, the story of this station’s change [...]

In case you missed it, here’s the audio from the official launch of Absolute Radio at 7.45am today.
Absolute Radio launch

On the surface, we just rebranded – but because we’re Absolute, we’re trying to do it differently.  These days, everyone talks about branding, but we don’t often really think what it means.  A supermarket can take the same tin of beans, put three different labels on it and charge three different prices because the branding [...]

Well the public have voted! And in what numbers ! It never ceases to amaze me how passionate our listeners are about music, whether in response to our invite to join our weekly playlists or to take part in public votes such as the one we ran over the last few days to find the [...]

So as the lights come down on 15 and a bit years of Virgin Radio, I thought it might be worth giving everyone a whistlestop history of Virgin Radio - how it came about and some of the things that have happened here over the years.
Look for a more personal version history of Virgin Radio [...]

Before the first, inevitable drop of blood is spilled, may I congratulate both Helen and Christian for giving us this blog’s only true water cooler moment so far. From the vantage point of my sickbed, I’m envisaging battle lines being drawn throughout the building; DJs divided, sales execs segregated, middle-manager turning against middle-manager.
In one corner, [...]

After almost 8 years at Virgin Radio, it’s safe to say I’ve been to a million and one zillion of these famous Rock Trivias. In fact, they are so much part of my life, like cleaning my teeth or going for a doctors check-up that I’ve renamed the day after [...]

It is five o’clock on Tuesday afternoon. I am in a small kitchen, making a cup of tea for myself and a lady called Dawn. We met one minute ago. I try some smalltalk:
“This is a nice little place you’ve got here. ” I say.
“It’s not so little.” she replies sharply, affronted.
I want to explain [...]

This was the first V I have had to work at. I have had to work at the last few if you can call drinking beer and falling over work. Two years ago I was struck by a weird rare virus at V which affected my speech and cognitive behaviour so much that I [...]

Now its not often you get the chance to visit a place that holds as much musical history as Abbey Road Studios, so let’s just say I was very, very, very excited about being asked to come along for the evening to watch some of the new jingles for the new station being recorded!

Let’s just [...]

It was the V Festival over the weekend and everyone from the station certainly does their bit to make it all go smoothly. It’s a rather relentless task on the front desk checking everyone in but there’s always the prize for the best blag.
This year it goes to a fine young man and his [...]

So here’s how the conversation went. Our new boss arrived at Golden Square with a question for his news editor…
“What are we doing about the Olympics?”
The Olympics? On a rock music station? Aside from throwing CD’s around the studio, I’ve never seen an enormous amount of athletic prowess or interest displayed by any of our [...]

Hello One Golden Square,
It seems weeks ago since we all celebrated our win at this years Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards, picking up gold for our fantastic Virgin Mobile V Festival coverage.
What makes it even more special is that this award isn’t for just one specific person or presenter, this is completely a team effort. Every [...]