As you can see, I’ve been swotting up on my Maori. This is about getting ready and being prepared or something.
After three and a bit years, I leave Absolute Radio at the end of this week to go and work at The Radio Bureau in New Zealand.
I’ve got some learning to do. This was the [...]

Following a review of the Programming strategy across the summer we are saying farewell to Programme Manager, Mark Bingham.
Mark joined Golden Square from the Capital Radio Group on the day Chris Evans left the station, what a baptism by fire! During his time at the company he has made a massive contribution to the UK’s [...]

It’s been a momentous week for the World. History has been made and a monumental barrier has been crossed. All around the globe, people have been chanting together in unison ‘A change is coming‘.
Indeed the change has come. Jo Russell has become the first female Breakfast Presenter on Absolute Radio. Admirably assisted by her Vice [...]

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

Absolute Radio is building a new music and entertainment brand and in order to adapt and meet the challenges ahead we need constantly to look at the business and ensure we are investing in the right areas. This is particularly the case now during exceptionally tough economic times. Some areas of the business have [...]

So… at long last Tim Shaw kicks off on Absolute Radio at 10pm tonight.
It breaks my heart to have to do this but whatever you’re up to tonight, wherever you are, whoever you’re doing I beg and implore do not tune in.
That’s right, you heard me. Do. Not. Listen.
Don’t even turn the radio on.  Watch [...]

Allow me to introduce someone that you will be hearing rather a lot of over the coming months. More in fact than Geoff Lloyd or Russ Williams. Greater still than Nick Jackson. He will be our most prolific broadcaster, with an audience that outstrips even Christian O’Connell’s.  It is not for dramatic purposes that this [...]

It’s just dawning on me that today Friday 25th of September 2008 is the last full day of the radio station that we know and love as Virgin Radio. It’s been an incredible journey, one worthy of a meaty tome and believe me, as the only original member of the team, it is one that [...]

Joan slid further down in her chair, almost to horizontal. A guttural grunt came involuntarily from her pretty lips as she ran her fingers through her long, curly hair. Another typical day for this hard-working PA, now managing a coven of ‘bosses’. “What time is it in Brazil?”, she croaked. It transpired [...]

When she was about three, she sat in a tractor on her Dad’s knee.  Her love of vehicles began then, although now she’s more closely connected with faster cars - as witnessed on Top Gear and Fifth Gear.
At ten, she wanted to be a formula one driver.  Now, we’re not 100% sure how Vicki Butler-Henderson [...]

Hi Belloni boy here.
I made a promo for the breakfast show this morning, and it features a listener explaining why we have changed our name. She said it’s like having a strict father that won’t let us do what we want to do, it’s like a woman, when she finally gets married, she changes her [...]

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, [...]

David Lloyd will be leaving us next Friday 19th September. Donnach, Adrian and I didn’t know David that well before we meet in early July and having done so I am really sorry that we did not work together for longer.
As any new owner of a business knows, the most difficult decisions of all often [...]