The BBC and Commercial Radio today announced a new partnership initiative designed to place radio at the heart of Digital Britain and secure its digital future.
The plans were revealed today by Tim Davie from the BBC, Andrew Harrison from RadioCentre and Ashley Tabor from Global Radio at the Radio Reborn conference in central London.
The initiative [...]

So that’s the first week over! 34 celebrities have called in to chat with Christian so far. There’s still plenty of time to go. We don’t close the door to the show until Wednesday 25th March. Here’s who called Christian this morning…

Davina McCall (Big Brother host)
She’s presenting part of Comic Relief tonight with David Tennant [...]

Two platinum-selling number one singles, Perrier Award winner, best-selling author, English lecturer, a masters in English Literature, award-winning chat show host, singer, songwriter, banjo player, broadsheet columnist, TV presenter, critically acclaimed TV and theatre actor, Sony Radio Award nominated podcaster and full time West Bromwich Albion fan it’s near impossible not to be more than [...]

Since we became Absolute radio we have been extremely interactive with the listeners about what kind of radio station they want.
We promised to listen and consider and deliberate over their comments and views. They told us they wanted a radio station that didn’t play the same old songs over and over again and so was [...]

In the dark days, “news” was a dirty word in many commercial radio stations. It sent shudders down the spines of Programme Directors and Sales Managers because it couldn’t be sponsored or sold…a waste of valuable airtime surely?
Well at Absolute Radio we like news. Even though we’re a music station, we pride ourselves on producing [...]

This is how Radio 558 in Holland are running their version of pay your bills!

As voted for by Absolute Radio listeners.
1. Born To Run
2. The River
3. Born In The USA
4. Thunder Road
5. Dancing In The Dark
6. I’m On Fire
7. Jungleland
8. Philadelphia
9. Glory Days
10. Hungry Heart
Just missed out:
Human Touch
Girls In Their Summer Clothes
Sherry Darling
The Rising
Absolute Radio Song Comments
Ian Brooks in Kirkcaldy on Born To Run;
A grease-ball rocker which I first [...]

Our latest playlist is available to see here.
There are new entries from MGMT, Starsailor, Franz Ferdinand, Guns n Roses, Kevin Rudolf and Morrissey.
Geoff Lloyd’s Hometime Show Record of the Week is I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris by Morrissey.

Hello, and welcome to the totally not ripped off ‘Blogication’ to this latest dive into the worrying depths of the mind of Jack McMorrow.
I’d like to blogicate this piece to everyone at Absolute Radio. This is partially because I can’t help being a horrible little suck up, but it’s also because I would like to [...]

Over the course of the last fortnight we have given away more than 200 Pure Highway in-car DAB radios.
The online daily draw has proved to be incredibly successful with almost 25,000 entries and more than 67,000 page impressions on our DAB microsite.
The biggest day for entries was Friday 14th November when we had 15,000 [...]

It was back in January in studio A when David Lloyd first introduced myself and Tony Moorey to JK and Joel.
“This is Tony and Guy” he announced. (The new presenters were amused that their show was being produced by hairdressers).
After moving to The Midas for a swift half - which became a few pints in [...]

It’s an historic day for America and here at Absolute Radio we marked the occasion by making Jo and Ben get up incredibly early to host the breakfast show from 4am (they’ve actually done a full day for once).
How do you celebrate such an occasion?
With a very special audio and visual Kettle Classic (of course!).
Enjoy…

If you haven’t already heard, Dianne Thompson’s taking over as non-executive chairman at the RadioCentre.
Who is she, what’s she going to be doing and why’s she so important for us?
Dianne runs the National Lottery operator, Camelot - she is actually inside every machine deciding on the lucky dips. More importantly, she is one of the [...]

So today saw the start of a new Era for Absolute Radio with the marvellous Jo Russell (another Russell) helming Christian O’Connell’s Breakfast Show while he jets off for yet another pina colada with one of those little umbrellas in the top.
It’s Jo’s first show for Absolute Radio so naturally there will be some nerves. [...]

Here’s a link to this week’s new playlist.