Absolute 80s Wins Best International Award In First Ross On Radio Readers Poll

14Jan

America’s Ross On Radio/ Radio-Info’s is a twice-weekly newsletter on radio programming trends and history in the US. Their solicited readers submitted their nominations and more than 5,000 ballots were cast in December and early January.

We are pleased to say that Absolute 80s took the best International Station award in the poll.

Below are all of the winners by category; a full description of each can be found in the Ross On Radio column.

Sean Ross is one of the radio and music industry’s most widely respected writers and programming analysts, is the author of the newsletter Ross On Radio, an extension of his long-running column of the same name. Ross is a veteran trade journalist, whose background includes Billboard, Radio & Records, Airplay Monitor, and M Street Journal.  

Thanks for all of the support Ross!

Click here for more information http://www.radio-info.com/programming/programming-music/winners-named-in-first-ross-on-radio-readers-poll

Categories: Absolute 80s Absolute Radio 2

Posted by jonny on January 14, 2011

Matt Moves On Up

14Jan

Absolute Radio is happy to announce the promotion of Matt Freemantle in the Agency Sales Team. Matt has been with Absolute Radio for nearly two years.  As well as planning responsibilities Matt has worked on a launches such as The Rolling Stones and the Wadworth Pub Quiz Sponsorship. He has also become the Blipvert King managing Universal Music campaigns from the likes of Paul Weller, Amy MacDonald and James. In his new role Matt will manage a portfolio of agencies as well as Mediacom’s Entertainment team.

It hasn’t always been sales, booze and Christmas Jumpers for Matt, he previously served his country in the Royal Navy! Not so much travel in his new role but some hard work definitely ahead!

Categories: Absolute Radio People 1

Posted by jonny on January 14, 2011

£1000 Mix Tape

13Jan

If you haven’t heard, we’re giving away £1000 a day in the £1000 Mix tape. So far Laura Peters from Cheshunt in Enfield, Stewart Botham from Essex, Claire Colville from Maidenhead and the latest Ruairi Holyoake from Liverpool have all had a great start to 2011 by taking the prize. Laura and Stewart have both decided to spend their winnings on holidays, Claire revealed that she is going to splash out on some designer shoes, while Ruairi is putting the money towards his wedding. We like their style!

So here’s how it works. Breakfast Show DJ Christian O’Connell plays out a short montage, made up of very small clips of four songs and because they last less than a second and follow each other in immediate succession, the £1000 Mix Tape certainly isn’t easy.

If you’re like Laura, Stewart, Claire and Ruairi and can guess the four songs plus their corresponding artists correctly, you’ll win £1000!

Each day’s Mix Tape will feature four songs from one of the Absolute Radio family of radio stations, Absolute Radio, Absolute Classic Rock, Absolute 80s, Absolute Radio 90s or Absolute Radio 00s. If there is no winner on the Breakfast show the competition continues throughout the day during the No Repeat Guarantee with DJ’s Russ Williams and then Nick Jackson.

We will be giving small clues throughout the day on-air. So, if you’re stuck, keep listening to Absolute Radio on 105.8FM in London, DAB Digital Radio and 1215AM nationwide and online.

We’re also posting the clues on Facebook and Twitter, so like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter now.What are you waiting for. Call 0330 123 1215 when the on-air DJ tells you t and you could bag yourself £1,000 in our £1,000 mix tape.

Check out the link below for more details on the £1,000 mix tape http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/onair/mixtape/

Categories: Absolute 80s Absolute Classic Rock Absolute Radio Absolute Radio 00s Absolute Radio 90s 0

Posted by jonny on January 13, 2011

Playlist: 11th January

11Jan

The playlist is out now.

Manic Street Preachers – Postcards From A Young Man (28th February)
The title track from the Manics’ latest album gets a single release, along with a great home video shot by the band.

The Script – If You Ever Come Back (21st February)
New single from the Irish trio’s #1 second album ‘Science & Faith’.

Morning Parade – A&E (28th February)
Next single from new Essex band.

Categories: Music playlist 1

Posted by carrie on January 11, 2011

Absolute Radio develops an app for Apple’s newly launched Mac app store

07Jan

Absolute Radio has developed an app for Apple’s newly launched Mac app store – making the radio station available to over 50 million Mac owners worldwide.

Our free desktop app allows Mac users to stream to all radio stations in the family of brands; Absolute Radio, Absolute 80s, Absolute Radio 90s, Absolute Radio 00s, Absolute Classic Rock and Absolute Radio extra via a Mac app player.

 Since launching in October 2008 our listeners have downloaded  1.5m app downloads of 21 different smart-phone apps including the most recent Absolute Radio 00s, enabling you to listen to the station on-the-go.

In November 2010, Absolute Radio posted its highest ever figure for mobile listening with 353,000 hours streamed via a mobile platform. This is up a massive 305% year on year from 87,000 in November 2009. Mobile listening now accounts for 4% of all of the networks streamed hours compared to 1% last year.

In total, The Absolute Radio Network (Absolute Radio, Absolute Classic Rock, Absolute 80s, Absolute Radio 90s and Absolute Radio extra) streamed an all time high of 9.4million hours of live online streamed hours in November. This figure is up 40.2% year on year.

The same month,  the Absolute Radio Network serviced a total of 1.8 million on-demand hours via IP connected devices. This on-demand figure consists of all audio and video content available online through downloaded podcasts, audio clips, live sessions and videos both on absoluteradio.co.uk and third party sites.

In total, The Absolute Radio Network serviced 11.1million hours of compelling online content in November (including live online streamed hours, live mobile streamed hours and on-demand).

 Read what other people are saying about it here:

http://www.brandrepublic.com/news/1048290/Absolute-adds-first-radio-app-Mac-App-Store/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH

Categories: Absolute 80s Absolute Classic Rock Absolute Radio Absolute Radio 00s Absolute Radio 90s absolute radio extra Technology 3

Posted by cat on January 7, 2011