Wow, we have ended our ‘crossfade’ journey and it’s day two of being 100% Absolute Radio.
Behind the scenes, the Programming, Production, PR, Marketing, Digital Media and Tech Team have lived at One Golden Square, working day, night and most weekends to make sure we have everything perfect for day one. I feel like I’ve seen [...]

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 [...]

It’s always a case of sharp intake of breath when inviting comments from listeners and users.  Particularly when you’ve said you’ll actually bother to consider them - and, with this being radio,  people would soon notice if I merrily ignored them all.
So.  I sent out a note to all our thousands of VIPs last week, [...]

Hello One Golden Square,
It seems weeks ago since we all celebrated our win at this years Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards, picking up gold for our fantastic Virgin Mobile V Festival coverage.
What makes it even more special is that this award isn’t for just one specific person or presenter, this is completely a team effort. Every [...]

As we get older we tend to dream less and less. I was forever being told off at school for either talking too much or daydreaming. Now I am paid to do both. So f**k you Mr Barnes the chemistry teacher!
Anyway. Mr Parigi last week spoke of the intellectual fatigue in commercial radio, I think [...]

Here is an interesting tool that analyses Websites and Blogs and automatically aggregates Word Count and creates a graphic image to boot
It was sent to me by Matt Deegan at Folder Media. Clever chap.
He ran the tool on our very own blog One Golden Square, with interesting results:

I don’t think many would question the value of Radio Airplay when trying to sell music and influence consumers about new artists. In fact I think some of the more cynical people may wrongly believe that the Radio Industry is paid to pay certain songs at certain times again and again. Of course the opposite [...]

The team at Golden Square should very proud this morning as they are the only radio station to achieve three Arqiva nominations.

V Festival for Programme or Feature of the year
Virgin Radio News team for News award
Virgin Sales team for National Sales team of the year.

We at TIML believe awards can genuinely help bring a positive [...]

“In the first acquisition of a British media outlet by an Indian company, the Times of India Group has bought Virgin Radio for 53.2 million pounds.” 
Read the full article and watch the film at timesnow.tv.

“As Drama 2.0 pointed out recently, AOL is starting to think it may have paid too much for Bebo.
The recent sale of Virgin Radio for ‘just’ £53m seems to confirm that.”
Read the full article on the e-consultancy News & Blog.
 

“A major change that is about to occur on the Infinite Dial was announced late on Friday. Virgin Radio, one of the UK’s few national commercial radio brands and one of the most streamed radio stations in the world, was sold to a combination of the Times of India company and Absolute Radio….”
Read the full [...]

We know some of you write blogs - we enjoy reading them.

Adam (with his newly increased fame, after a recent namecheck in the Media Guardian) wrote:
“The problem is that you have to tread very carefully when blogging about your employer. So I’m not going to say a great deal more, but as ever, what I [...]

There’s been a fair bit of interest and comment on what we’re up to. Here are some of our favourite articles and blog posts. Feel free to comment on them, either here or there.

Jon Plunkett’s ‘Farewell Virgin Radio, hello…. what exactly?‘
The Guardian’s ‘Virgin Radio: Clive Dickens looks to station’s 2001 heyday‘
James Cridland’s ‘Farewell Then Virgin [...]