Category Archives: People

A New Voice For News by Andrew Bailey

You’ll be hearing a new voice on-air this weekend.
Sandy Warr is joining our freelance team covering ad-hoc News & Sport shifts across the Absolute Radio network.
She has more than 20 years experience on-air working with Chris Tarrant on Capital FM, as the’ radio wife’ to Simon Bates, Tony Blackburn, and Paul Ross. She’s also [...]

Faces for Radio – Phase Two

It’s back!
Earlier on this year we launched our biggest ever marketing campaign since Absolute Radio launched in 2008. From 30th August – we’ll be rolling out the second phase of our ‘Faces for Radio’  outdoor marketing campaign across the South East of England. The public will be greeted with the charismatic faces of our Breakfast show [...]

Donnach Does Drinks – Who Will Win?

When it was announced that the staff at Absolute Radio were to be split into four house teams to take part in special tasks throughout the year with the chance to win a yet unbeknown prize, no one realised how competitive the staff would become. Resulting in such a high level of competiveness, house team [...]

Dabbl is going back into the lab for further experimentation.

Dabbl is Absolute Radio’s experimental radio station platform, dreamt up by the One Golden Square Labs team. Its aim is to enable a radio station’s audience to power its playlist.  Since December 2009 the dabbl technology has been powering a radio station of the same name 24 hours a day, allowing listeners to browse or search [...]

Chrissy Polcino Wins Absolute Star Award

It’s that time again where Absolute Radio celebrates a member of its staff for the achievements and enduring hard work in the form of the Absolute Star.
The massive trophy was awarded to Chrissy Polcino our Commercial Producer being graciously passed on by the previous winner our Music Section Producer Llia Apostolou.
American born Chrissy, moved over [...]