However, the delay in approval of the Capital acquisition would ultimately lead to the deal not going through. Evans' ownership of Virgin Radio started well, with a breakfast show audience increase of 660,000 to 2. Smooth Country does a good job but Downtown Country has the balance right between the pop end of the market and classics.

I’m totally gutted because I’d love to take part in the majority concert based comps, plus all the “Wicks” ones, and the pub quiz ones. Will be interesting to see if this is a success - but also I do wonder why Bauer went this route, seemingly made something of a success of it, but changed anyway.Furthermore, some radios come with a separate channel selector that lets you list the songs from different channels of the radio. From Abbey Road to Shepherd’s Bush Empire, from Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club to St Paul’s Cathedral, Absolute Radio Live is responsible for some of the most spine-tingling live music moments in modern memory.

FM's Absolute Country, playing non-stop crooners and banjos, dance-tunes and fiddles, ballads and harmonicas. In the summer of 1993, Virgin Radio began broadcasting in stereo on the Astra 1A satellite on an audio sub-carrier of the Sky News channel. Back during lockdown with everyone missing live music, Tim realised we all had the opportunity to take part in one great big listening party. In a blog post in February 2009, Head of Music James Curran noted that the 30 most-played artists in the first four months of Absolute Radio had been: Manic Street Preachers, Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys, Snow Patrol, Kings of Leon, The Killers, Oasis, Travis, U2, Placebo, Suede, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, Queen, Keane, Stereophonics, Caesars, Elbow, Bruce Springsteen, R.Take control of your Absolute Radio listening experience - with the ‘Listen later’ queue, you can build your playlist and listen to the best of Absolute Radio when you want it. DJs are clearly instructed to talk incessantly about the app, jingles nag constantly about the app, and 'standard' advertising the app is then jammed on top!

Carried on Astra 2A, it launched on the channel 917 of the Sky EPG, [116] and then could be found on Astra 2G as Absolute Radio on channel 0107 of SKY UK EPG. Evans wrote in his autobiography that "the management wanted to stick to our original brief of expansion, whereas our investors only cared about extracting the added value. Absolute Xtreme was launched (as Virgin Radio Xtreme) on 5 September 2005, by Lali Parikh (Station Manager) with Steve Harris being the main on-air talent.

You no longer have to worry about not knowing what songs were playing earlier in your favourite radio. Probably need the money though because they advertising will be threadbare once the government stops wasting taxpayers money on "watch out for covid" adverts. I lived in Dublin for a while and I could access Absolute there on the app, I was away for a short break in Paris recently and it's there too, anywhere I go on holiday, it's there. My advice, download it, try it, if it's not for you delete it, but you won't, it's one of those apps that will creep up the pages and will soon be on your front screen, then the dilemma of which one does it replace . His show started on 13 October 1997, the same day that Zoë Ball started as Evans' replacement on Radio 1.