There are lots of talented individuals here at Absolute Radio, and two of them in particular are also members of a band – Bibelots – in their spare time. Gaz works on Geoff’s Hometime Show, and Bobby works in the Sales department. They’re both looking for a bit of help.
Snowbombing is a festival taking place this April, and the organisers are running a competition to find four bands to play at the festival in Austria. The winners will be the bands that get the most votes from a shortlist of 20 which includes Bibelots.
So Bobby, Gaz and the rest of the band would really love it if you would CLICK HERE and click the VOTE button.
Although not yet available on contract in the UK, we have the new Google Nexus One in our possession and the One Golden Square Labs team have already updated the Absolute Radio iAmp so it’s ready for the handsets official UK launch later this Spring.
The Nexus One is packed with features, including multitasking, a 5 Megapixel camera with flash and a 3.7” multi-touch screen. The hardware specification is pretty impressive too with an incredibly fast 1Ghz processor and 512MB RAM.
We are working on lots of exciting new Android applications, so keep an eye out for more in the Google Market over the coming weeks.
If you haven’t seen the Nexus One yet, take a look at the video and see the Absolute Radio iAmp widget in action.
Could the Nexus One be the first real contender for the Apple iPhone? We’ll leave that for you to decide. If you want to keep up to date with all the OGS labs videos you can follow us on Twitter @OGSlabs, check out our YouTube channel and you can download the vodcasts on our new iTunes technology podcast channel.
Illustration that’s clearly not to scale, and pointing to the wrong part of the world.
It’s a little known fact that at regular times of the day over certain known periods of the year we suffer a degradation of communications with geostationary satellites. This is all down to something that is known as an Equinox. An Equinox in this case is where the sun passes behind the satellite that is communicating with ground stations on Earth, in such a position that you could link the Sun, the satellite and the ground station together with a single straight line. During this period the immense power and broad radiation spectrum of the Sun introduce so much interference to the legitimate signal from the satellite that normal communications are temporarily interrupted.
It all sounds a bit sci-fi really, but there’s a real reason as to why I’m writing about this here. If you enjoy listening to Absolute Radio, Absolute Classic Rock or Absolute 80s on Sky, Freesat, Virgin Media or TalkTalk TV (was Tiscali TV) then you may experience interruption to the service as the sun passes behind the satellite (Eurobird 1) these are relayed though. The times and dates for these are: -
25th February – 6th March @ 10:07 UTC +/- 15 minutes.
Last night saw the first ever Radio Academy Radio Production Awards.
It was great that we had 3 nominations. Eloise for Newcomer, Vince for Online Producer and Dean for his work on the Zoo sessions. I was really impressed with standard of our entries and those played at the ceremony last night.
Unfortunately we didn’t win the glass iceberg trophies (looked like dangerous weapons) in any of those categories but we were very much a part of a winning entry. Joe Adams who works with Phil Critchlow at TBI Media won the prize for concert producer – a large part of his entry was for the V Festival Secret Sessions Stage. It was great to hear some of that played out at last night’s ceremony… taking me back to those sunny days in a field in Chelmsford.
Well done to Joe and to Eloise, Dean and Vince for getting nominated in awards which were designed to recognise those behind the mic.
As an aside, it was also great last night to talk to so many radio industry figureheads who’d heard our big announcement yesterday and wanted to know more details… some were nearly as excited as we are! ‘One described it as putting the cat amongst the radio pigeons.’
On September 29th 2008 Absolute Radio was born. Our home is One Golden Square, London. The team are committed to building Absolute Radio into a music and entertainment brand with audio at its core. This blog is the place to share our thoughts on our plans, our music, the world at large and the gossip from the staff party the night before. Anyone from the team is welcome to write a post, and comments are, of course, welcome from all.
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