No - that’s not just us at Absolute Radio talking - but the whole UK radio industry.
Christmas is a very important time for DAB digital radio, with a vast proportion of sets sold over the period as people realise that they make lovely cost effective gifts - from low priced Asda DAB radios to [...]

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 [...]

This week in London saw The Digital Radio Show 2008, an industry conference discussing the various aspects of digital radio around Europe and the world.
It’s fair to say that DAB has been through the mill a bit recently with Channel Four pulling out of a consortium to launch additional national digital radio services. At [...]

Good news this week in that our podcasts are being promoted on iTunes - on their podcast front page.
I hear you all crying but why’s this important?
The latest industry research shows that 73% of all podcasts are found and delivered via iTunes and so more people will see our podcasts and hopefully sample them. [...]

Following the success of a new-look Studio A and various Outside Broadcasts (and I could go on) over the past few weeks, the Technology Services department are now full steam ahead into their next project.
As part of our split from SMG and various shared services, we are replacing the entire core networking infrastructure and office [...]

If you’re listening to us via a digital system, you may have noticed that we’re now displayed as “Absolute Radio” on many devices now.
From first thing on Monday morning, all our DAB services changed into their “Absolute” versions. Absolute Radio is available to 90% of the population on the Digital One multiplex - check your [...]

Paul Brown will be joining us as Absolute Radio’s new Head of Technology on Monday. He joins us from RadioWorks where his colleagues made him a leaving video he’s very keen that everyone should see.

We’ve been really busy planning the best options for Studio A since my last post about Studio A strategy, and we have settled on a two phase approach due to the tight timelines involved.
The first and current phase involves stripping the studio back to the plasterboard, renewing and adding additional soundproofing, building a production room [...]

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 [...]

No, not the rather odd, somewhat convoluted, yet thoroughly enjoyable Christopher Nolan film, but rather the prestige that comes with outdoing our radio competitors.  Specifically I am referring to, unsurprisingly given it’s me, the field of technology within radio and, even more specifically, the area of “content delivery”.
Virgin Radio has prided itself in being one [...]