Absolute Radio’s Music Team is recruiting for a Music Producer

18Jan

 

The Role
The role of the Music Producer is primarily to manage digital services as required from the Absolute Radio network (ARN) and be responsible for on-air output as part of the Music Team. In addition, this role will be responsible for producing programmes across digital stations and provide general support to all areas of the Music department

Responsibilities include
• programming of music on digital services as required on the ARN
• initiating programming ideas and producing ‘themed’ weeks/weekends/ dayparts for digital services as required on the ARN Network
• producing programmes and content for digital services as required in form of music specials, involving setting up interviews, studio producing interview and creating the finished programme for broadcast purposes.
• supervising voicetracking of all shows on digital services as required on the ARN
• providing production and support to all areas of Programming across all networks including festivals, live events and the provision of cover in times of holidays and sickness
• reconciliation of all PRS and PPL reports for the whole ARN
• seeding fan sites and social media networks (Facebook/ Twitter) with information on content on the ARN
• studio producing on air talent

Skills, Experience and Knowledge
• minimum two years of:
• RCS Selector experience (programming and operational ability) – knowledge of G Selector an advantage
• Working with Genesys or similar digital playout system
• digital editing experience
• tech-op experience
• excellent music knowledge across all genres
• have strong relationships throughout the business to facilitate best possible product
• strong ability to supervise and direct on air talent good understanding of the music returns process to PRS and PPL
• experience with on-air presenting an advantage, but not essential

Personal characteristics
• excellent communication skills
• flexible attitude to workload and work day to fit in with needs of Programming Department
• Creative
• Proactive with demonstrable initiative

If you would like to be considered please send a full CV to:
Caroline Hinton – Head of HR, Absolute Radio
One Golden Square, London, W1F 9 DJ
Or e-mail: caroline.hinton@absoluteradio.co.uk
Closing Date: 23 January 2012
Absolute Radio is committed to equality of opportunity for all.
Please indicate your disability on your application. This information is required
so that all who have a disability and meet the minimum criteria for the position
will be invited for interview.

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Posted by jonny on January 18, 2012

NEW VACANCY: Absolute Radio’s Digital Sales Team is recruiting for an Account Manager

17Jan

 

The Role
You will manage a portfolio of key agency accounts and client contacts with a focus on increasing digital commercial revenue.

Responsibilities include
• Constant pitching for new business to maximise revenue streams.
• Develop excellent and productive contacts with agency and client personnel including Account Directors, Planners and digital buying teams.
• Sell strategically and creatively across all Absolute Radio opportunities (including sponsorship & promotions).
• Build strong relationships with the Sales Heads, agency team, sponsorship and promotions to ensure they are aware of the opportunities/leads.
• Work closely and build relationships with the digital interactive team in the creation, monetization and delivery of new campaigns/revenue streams.
• Self-management of client’s campaigns through the internal ad-serving system to ensure efficiency and delivery of all campaigns.
• Manage and develop a Sales Exec.
• Accurate forecasting and sales pipeline for agency patch.

Skills, Experience and Knowledge
• At lease two years experience with a media owner selling to agencies.
• An excellent understanding of the media marketplace and significant knowledge of the digital market. Experience in selling radio preferred but not essential.
• History of successful pro-active sales pitches.
• Strong agency contacts at all levels.
• Good understanding of customer brands.
• Proficiency in Word, Powerpoint and Excel

Personal characteristics
• Must have a passion for digital and radio
• Creative, strategic thinker
• Excellent communication skills
• Self starter
• A flexible team player, with a ‘can-do’ attitude and a sense of humour.
• Ability to build relationships across the business
• High level of written and oral communication

If you would like to be considered please send a full CV to:
Caroline Hinton – Head Of HR, Absolute Radio
One Golden Square, London, W1F 9 DJ
Or e-mail: caroline.hinton@absoluteradio.co.uk
Closing Date: 23 January 2012
Absolute Radio is committed to equality of opportunity for all.
Please indicate your disability on your application. This information is required so that all who have a disability and meet the minimum criteria for the position will be invited for interview.

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Posted by jonny on January 17, 2012

Absolute Radio team take key speaking roles at Radiodays Europe conference

16Jan

 

The Absolute Radio team will be joining some of the most prominent leaders
and personalities in radio for the Radiodays Europe Conference in Barcelona in
March.

The speaker line-up for the event includes Breakfast Show
presenter Christian O’Connell, Chief Operating Officer Clive Dickens, Content Director Tony Moorey and Claire
Neal, Producer of the Ronnie Wood Show.

Radiodays Europe is an annual pan-European radio conference
for leaders from public service and commercial radio as well as related
industries and aims to provide a common arena for discussing radio now and in
the future.  Those attending include private and public service radio
managers, programme directors and content developers, interactive managers and
professionals in marketing, sales and audience research.

 The list of speakers announced so far is:

• Andria Vidler – MD of EMI, UK. The relationship between radio and music industry is up for discussion

• Kurt Hanson – leading Internetradio guru, USA, about personalised radio

• Clive Dickens – Absolute Radio, UK, about getting listeners to sign-on

• Michael Praetorius – German online strategist about new ways to do radio

• Giselle van Caan – NPO News, Netherlands, about new forms for the news

• Tony Moorey – Content Director, Absolute Radio UK

• Antoine Baduel – FG Radio, on the digitalisation of radio in France

• Kristian Kropp – RPR1 and BigFM, Germany, about making new content to find new listeners

• Javier Viroomal – Prisa Radio, Spain, about how to develop interactivity on your website

• John Ousby – vTuner, USA, about the future of radio in cars

• Ira Glass – producer and presenter of the legendary program “This American Life”

• Julian Treasure – sound branding expert, UK

• Tim Davie – Head of Audio and Music, BBC, UK

• Erwin Linnenbach – CEO of Regiocast, Germany, about new strategies for radio

• Claire Neal - producer of the “Ronnie Wood Show”

• David G. Hall – media strategist and former programme director in Los Angeles, USA

• Annika Nyberg - new Media Director of the EBU

• Christian O´Connell - award winning British presenter from Absolute Radio

• Nathalie van Helshoecht – about Belgian research on radio and Google

• Pete Waterman - legendary songwriter and producer

More details on the Radiodays Europe Conference here

 

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Posted by One Golden Square on January 16, 2012

Redefining Radio – the videos

13Jan

We promised you video content from yesterday’s Redefining Radio event at the Houses of Parliament – and here it is. For more information on the event itself, please see the posts below this one on the blog, and follow @onegoldensquare on Twitter. It’s the official account from the Absolute Radio team at One Golden Square, keeping you up to date with our latest news and innovations.

Search for #redefiningradio on Twitter to see the live Tweets from the event itself, and use it to join in the debate!

 

Ed Vaizey MP – the Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries

Ed Vaizey was the ‘most met minister’ in 2010, and he once called for ‘speed dating’ sessions with his fellow ministers, due to the limited amount of time he gets to spend with them. As well as his career in Westminster, he has also been a freelance political commentator who’s written regularly for The Guardian, and appeared on  TV shows including Despatch Box and The Wright Stuff.

 

Clive Dickens – Chief Operating Officer, Absolute Radio

Clive is at the forefront of digital innovation and thought leadership, and has helped to significantly grow the business over the last twelve months, making Absolute Radio the most awarded commercial radio station in 2011. Clive oversees all of the station’s major digital initiatives, developed and designed as part of One Golden Square Labs – a digital working group led by Dickens, set up at Absolute Radio to develop applications for the web and new and emerging platforms, including mobile, wi-fi radio, and next-generations DAB.

Here is the slideshow to accompany Clive’s presentation:

Redefining Radio

Tim Davie – Director of BBC Audio and Music

One of the most influential opinion-formers in European radio, Tim is also the founding director of UK Radio Player. He has overall responsibility for BBC Radios 1, 2, 3, 4 and the BBC digital-only stations 6 Music, 1Xtra, Radio 4 Extra and the Asian Network. He’s also a trustee of BBC Children in Need, a board member of Rajar, Radioplayer and DRUK.

 

Karla Geci – Director of Strategic Partner Development, Facebook 

Originally from the USA, Karla has lived and worked in the UK since 2001. She works with broadcasters, media companies and content owners who want to leverage the Facebook platform to build social applications and experiences across their web properties and Facebook pages.

 

James Wigley – Head of Digital Sales, Absolute Radio

Before joining the team at Absolute Radio, James worked in digital at Mediacom, News International, and Channel 4 – and here he speaks about the new Absolute Radio InStream product, involving targeting advertising, which is set to launch in February 2012.

Here is the slideshow to accompany James’s presentation:

James wigley Redefining Radio

 

Rohan Oommen – General Manager of Xbox LIVE in EMEA, Microsoft

Rohan has been at Microsoft for 9 years, and before that worked as a brand manager at Nestle. He’s responsible for driving the business strategy to expand the hugely succesful Xbox LIVE entertainment service to the PC and internet. He joined the Xbox team when LIVE was just a concept – until last year he managed the subscriptions on the service, with over 20 million members. Xbox has pioneered the ‘logged-in’ business model, directly relating to the Absolute Radio’s Instream product.

 

Dave Gorman – comedian and presenter, Absolute Radio

Dave is a pioneer of ‘documentary comedy’, and his shows have been massively popular in the USA and in the UK. He’s seen huge success on TV, as well as with shows including  Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure, and he has also written three Sunday Times bestselling books. He is a presenter on Sunday mornings from 10-12 on Absolute Radio.

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Posted by adrianhieatt on January 13, 2012

Redefining Radio

12Jan

Videos of each speaker will be available tomorrow morning – so don’t forget to check back then.

Redefining Radio was a huge success this morning at the Houses of Parliament in London. Speakers at the prestigious invite-only event included Ed Vaizey – Minister for  Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Karla Geci – Strategic Partner Development – Facebook, Tim Davie – Director of BBC Audio & Music & Founding Director at UK Radioplayer Ltd, Clive Dickens – COO Absolute Radio & Non-Exec Director at UK Radioplayer Ltd, Comedian, Writer and Broadcaster Dave Gorman and Rohan Oommen, General Manager of the Xbox LIVE business in EMEA.

      

Topics under scrutiny included the future of radio in a digital world, specifically instream advertising, the importance of ‘logged in listening’, radio within social media, partnerships, and the thought that there is a huge potential in the radio industry in 2012 and beyond, as long as radio pushes towards ‘creative renewal’.

Videos of all of the speakers from today’s event will be available right here tomorrow morning.

Articles covering today’s event have already appeared in Mediaweek, Radio Today and New Media Age.

Don’t forget to follow @onegoldensquare on Twitter for all our latest updates, and to look back at the live Tweeting from the event itself search for #redefiningradio

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Posted by adrianhieatt on January 12, 2012