From 2013 to 2014, Absolute Radio held UK radio rights to American football's National Football League. On 1 September 2008 it was announced that Virgin Radio would be rebranded as Absolute Radio on 28 September. In each episode Gemma takes on a different topic ranging from the shocking to the hilarious to the tear jerking.

Constant repetition of jingles, being reminded every few minutes what the name of the station is and who the no-mark DJs are, stupid over-the-top laughter, and as for "where the music matters" . Evans' ownership of Virgin Radio started well, with a breakfast show audience increase of 660,000 to 2. Richard Branson wanted Evans to work for Virgin Radio, so much so that he joined him on a Concorde flight to New York to try to persuade him to join as the drive time presenter.The 1215 kHz frequency (247 metres) was used, in selected areas only, by the BBC Light Programme until 1967. The app constantly cuts out and gives the annoying "we can't connect to the internet blah blah please stand on one leg. The deal was announced on 8 December 1997, and would see the formation of the Ginger Media Group, an umbrella company overseeing Virgin Radio and producing programmes such as TFI Friday.

Listen for free to all 10 of our radio stations, playing the best music from the 60s to the present day, as well as exclusive podcasts, documentaries, and guests from the likes of Liam Gallagher and Dave Grohl, to Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence. We open our doors for intimate sessions from stars such as Vampire Weekend, Blossoms, Paul Weller and Richard Ashcroft, The Courteeners and Supergrass. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. There’s still some Hits Radio quirks, for example it’s the only Absolute branded station to do 24hr news AFAIK.Initially, it lobbied for Radio 4's FM network to be made available [15] and then, when the Radio Authority launched a consultation on the use of the 105–108 MHz band, [16] it lobbied for it to be set aside as a national network. Martin Collins, Gary Davies, Daryl Denham, Chris Evans (who also owned the station), Ben Jones, Neil Francis, Alan Freeman, Tony Hadley (from Spandau Ballet), Nicky Horne, Janey Lee Grace, Kevin Greening, Simon James and Hill, Gary King, Jason King, Phil Kennedy, Jeremy Kyle, Allan Lake, Iain Lee, Geoff Lloyd, Tim Lovejoy, James Merritt, Pete Mitchell, Al Murray, Christian O'Connell, John Osborne, Lynn Parsons, Steve Penk, Annabel Port, Vic Reeves, Joel Ross, Jo Russell, Holly Samos, Harriet Scott, Tim Shaw, Graeme Smith, Suggs, David Tennant, Clive Warren, Ray Cokes, Dave Gorman and Pete Donaldson. 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. Reflecting the massive popularity of Irish country music, ‘Absolute Irish' will broadcast from its base in Waterford 24 hours per day, seven days a week.