We’re soon to lose our old Virgin Radio domain names, so we thought it would be a good idea to run some reports and see how we’re getting on with reducing the amount of incoming emails to those domains.
We were hoping that our system of bouncing emails back to the senders and asking them to [...]

Below is a presentation from the RadioCentre showing how commercial radio is doing currently following the most recent RAJAR figures released for Q3 2008. Amongst other things, the slides show that commercial radio is very good at reaching a younger audience, and how in places such as London, Glasgow and Birmingham, there is more listening [...]

Tim Shaw debates with Nigel Evans MP, Shadow Culture Minister on Sky News about the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross affair.

Absolute Radio’s brand new TV advertising campaign starts today, and here’s the schedule from our advertising agency listing spots for today, tomorrow and Sunday. Ads are running on all the major commercial channels on terrestrial and digital television.
We’ll be sharing these ads with you later today, but in the meantime, plan your weekend’s TV viewing [...]

In a comment Adrian asked the following question:
Hi Donnach, please tell us what Absolute has in store for the future of the Medium Wave transmissions.
We’re fully committed to continuing to broadcast on Medium Wave or AM as it’s otherwise known for the forseeable future. Our licence to broadcast from Ofcom on AM continues until 2012, [...]

As you’d expect lots of people have got lots of questions about what’s going to happen here at 1 Golden Square over the next few weeks. Lots of anecdotes about house renting, Jif and Opal Fruits…

Why are we changing the name?
Will we be having a tie-up with the vodka brand? (if I’ve had one email [...]

How does anyone say goobye to a legend? Tony Hadley is just that. No ’80s tv documentary passes without his face within, singing those great songs which spell out that decade to a generation. For almost two years now, it’s been a privilege to have had him on the schedule, most recently [...]

Over the weekend I noticed an unusual amount of items appearing in the RSS reader for “Virgin Radio”. After flicking through the blog posts and tweets I discovered that Mix 99.9fm radio in Toronto has been renamed to Virgin Radio 999. I didn’t think any more of it until I got into the office and [...]

Following the ‘huge’ popularity of our last trawl through Virgin Radio TV ads of the past, it seemed fairly obvious to treat you to the comprehensive guide. Think of this as a DVD with incredible extras and commentaries rather than White Fang 2, Godfather 3 or some massively successful spin-off like Joey or Joanie Loves [...]

Over the past year, we in sales have been out and about with a presentation called “the Age of Consent” (double entendre, audience already on our side) in which we argue the case for commercial radio’s successful future. In the presentation, we suggest 6 key elements that a radio station needs to do well in [...]

Let’s go back 4 years, (there was the tsunami, the Athens Olympics, Arsenal won the Premiership and Peter Andre re-released Mysterious Girl…..cool, you’re with me now!) well, most people wouldn’t have had a clue what a podcast was!
4 years on and more than 6 million people in the UK have now listened to or downloaded [...]

Just like the Ting Tings, we’ll soon be saying to the press, “Virgin Radio- that’s not my name!” But actually when you stop to think about it, we’ve already been saying that to them for quite some time now. In fact, since acquisition we’ve given the media quite a few new names to choose from:- [...]

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 [...]

“Usually when things has gone this far, People tend to disappear, No one will surprise me unless you do. I can tell there’s something goin’ on, Hours seems to disappear. Everyone is leaving I’m still with you… And we don’t care about the young folks…” Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks
There have been countless [...]