As we announced this morning, the worlds poshest travel reporter and sidekick is leaving me. This is genuinely sad news as she’s one of the nicest people I have ever had the good fortune to work with. She’s a class act and I’ll miss her. The only person who smiles when they come in before [...]

We’re delighted to announce that Frank Skinner has extended his for another twelve months with Absolute Radio.
His show is independently produced for Absolute Radio by Avalon Television.
Frank’s currently on a short break with Dave Gorman stepping in. But he’ll be back on air on Saturday 29 June. In the meantime don’t forget about [...]

Please welcome Tara Dyer who joins Jacqueline and Rory for 3 weeks work experience.
• Tara is from Edmonton and has just finished her 2nd year at Nottingham Trent Uni studying Broadcast Journalism. She works on student radio and has her own show.
• Tara is a massive Arsenal fan and her brother plays for Northampton. She [...]

A new book was published last week - Radio Head - by John Osborne. No, not our John Osborne. Another one.
The book is one person’s experiences listening to lots of different radio stations to help him through his mundane data entry job. And chapter one is about us! Well in our old Virgin Radio guise, [...]

To be honest I dont think the whole ‘entertainment’ thing was really working for me. I see myself more as documentary maker now.�
So the prestigious Sony Awards were last night. Our host Clive Dickens opting for a black suit with black t-shirt giving himself the look of an extra in Miami Vice.  Donnach’s braces were [...]

Congratulations to everyone who won at last night’s Sony Radio Academy Awards!

Christian O’Connell with Jim Kerr and producer, Phil Critchlow. Photo: Radiotoday.co.uk
In particular, a special congratulations to Christian O’Connell, Richie Firth, Brian Murphy, Phil Critchlow and the team from TBI Media for winning the Gold award in the Live Event Coverage category.
Congratulations to Iain Lee, [...]

We’re always trying out new talent here at Absolute, usually in the dead of night when you’re all tucked up in bed. So last Bank Holiday Monday, in the spirit of adventure we had a new boy come in and have a bash at the controls and people seem to be asking who the [...]

Little bit of news that I wanted you to get from me before anyone else…
I’m going to be doing a weekend show for BBC Five Live, it doesn’t alter the love I have for here. Its not you, its me.
I did a show before them called Fighting Talk and I’m excited about going back. My [...]

It’s with pride that I can announce that we have appointed Chris Goldson as the stations new Commercial Director who will be filling the very big boots that Nick Hewat is leaving as he leaves radio after seventeen years to take a new position in print at the Telegraph group.
Chris is highly respected amongst the [...]

As part of the businesses growing digital needs and our marketing plans, we have created a new role here at Absolute Radio. Dan Thornton will be joining the station to take on the newly created position of Digital Marketing Manager to further drive our successful community strategy and website.
Dan will be responsible for managing all [...]

Monica Seles was stabbed in the back during a quarter final match in Hamburg, The UN was taking action in Bosnia, Indecent Proposal was number one at the cinema in the states, and George Michael, Lisa Stansfield and Queen were number one with ‘Five Live’.
Yet something even more important was happening on April 30th [...]

Week in, week out, Absolute Radio takes great care to respond to complaints, whether they come directly from listeners or through the regulator. Rather than just rebut comments, we do our best to take the appropriate action whenever necessary.
This morning Ofcom has ruled on such a complaint and has found the Allan Lake show in [...]

James Mollison/The Guardian
Saturday’s Guardian Weekend magazine featured photographic portraits of some of the biggest names in UK radio. If you didn’t see the printed magazine, The Guardian has the photos available to see in a gallery on its website.

Last week Tim Shaw interviewed Beatha, a survivor of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.
It’s quite simply the most harrowing interview I’ve ever sat in on.
I was going to stick a clip up for you to have a listen but instead I thought you might like to have a look through the reaction we had from [...]

It was a cold January night when Iain Lee asked me if I fancied popping into Studio H from the production room for a quick wrestle during a Kings of Leon song. The slightly demonic and frenzied look in his eye, suggested that I was about to take the pasting of a lifetime and so [...]