http://onegoldensquare.com Blog to discuss the creation of a new radio brand Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:14:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Introduction The most revealing thing that always strikes me about the Open Playlist is the enthusiasm of our listeners for music - their passion is unbridled . For us so called 'music professionals' our analysis of music can be a somewhat sanitised one where statistical expressions like 'burn' ... http://onegoldensquare.com/2008/12/open-playlist-meetings-by-marty-edelstein/ 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 ... http://onegoldensquare.com/2008/11/dab-giveaway-by-paul-sylvester/ 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 ... http://onegoldensquare.com/2008/11/give-a-dab-radio-this-christmas/ The new Absolute Radio playlist is published today. http://onegoldensquare.com/2008/11/absolute-radio-playlist-25-november-2008/ We're soon to lose our old Virgin Radio domain names, so we thought it would be a good idea to run some reports and see how we're getting on with reducing the amount of incoming emails to those domains. We were hoping that our system of bouncing emails back to the ... http://onegoldensquare.com/2008/11/emails-to-virgin-radio-domain-names-by-stuart-edwards/ When I was in my early twenties, and on the dole, I had a friend who worked on the barely-remembered Mike Smith TV quiz 'That's Showbusiness'. I sometimes used to go down to recordings at the BBC on Oxford Road in Manchester to avail myself of the sparkling white wine ... http://onegoldensquare.com/2008/11/paul-mccartney-and-the-beatles-by-geoff-lloyd/ The new playlist is out today. http://onegoldensquare.com/2008/11/absolute-radio-playlist-19-november-2008/ Needs YOU! Here at Absolute Radio we're famous for the great music we play. However, what you may not know is that we've got our fair share of talented musicians as well who also love that same great music. SO, we thought why not form our own Absolute Radio ... http://onegoldensquare.com/2008/11/absolute-radio-house-band-by-gareth-evans/ Well, we wanted to bring Soho to a standstill with the great cab giveaway this morning and I think we can say Mission Accomplished! The Pure Highway giveaway has been amazingly successful on-air and online in week one. We've had more than 15 000 people enter our online draw in the ... http://onegoldensquare.com/2008/11/the-great-cab-giveaway/ We're officially the funniest British radio station on iTunes…. In the comedy charts we have… Iain at number 13 and number 23 (His choice cut is also in new and notable) Geoff at 25 and profiled on the page Tim at 30 and in the new and notable Christian at 31 Christian's Men Commandments at 34 ... http://onegoldensquare.com/2008/11/itunes-update-by-paul-sylvester/