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| Frequency | DAB: various DAB+: 12C (London) |
| Branding | Absolute Radio Noughties |
| Programming | |
| Format | 2000s music |
| Network | Absolute Radio Network |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Bauer Radio |
| History | |
First air date | 10 December 2010 |
| Links | |
| Webcast | Rayo |
| Website | Absolute Radio 00s |
Absolute Radio 00s is a national digitalradio station owned and operated byBauer as part of theAbsolute Radio Network. It broadcasts locally on Bauer'sInverness DAB Multiplex. It broadcasts nationally via smart speaker streaming and online web streaming.
Absolute Radio 00s launched on 10 December 2010 on theSwitch London DAB multiplex, replacingAbsolute Radio 90s, which moved permanently to the nationalDigital One multiplex following a trial period.
In December 2014, Absolute 00s was withdrawn from DAB in London, as part of wider alterations, but simultaneously was made available, on a placeholder basis, on DAB inInverness.
On 8 May 2020, the transmission of Absolute Radio 00s was temporarily suspended for 24 hours to allow the online capacity to be used for the one-day pop-up stationAbsolute Radio 40s, marking the 75th anniversary ofVE Day, which also took over the AM frequencies of Absolute Radio for the day. The 40s pop-up was also added to theCE Digital London 1 multiplex as a DAB+ service.
As with Absolute's other digital spin-offs, Absolute Radio 00ssimulcasts theDave Berry breakfast show from the parentAbsolute Radio station. In a change to how the breakfast show is simulcast, as with the other sister stations, Absolute Radio 00s now only features music from the 2000s during the breakfast show. As a promotion for the new station, during December 2010Christian O'Connell would present an additional hour (10 am to 11 am) on the 00s station after the end of his main show.[citation needed]
From 23 September 2019, Absolute Radio's sibling stations, including 00s, began to syndicate the weekday afternoon drivetime show (thenHometime with Bush and Richie) from the main station; as at breakfast, a split playlist system will allow relevant music to be played on each station.
The service is available, as of December 2014, on digital radio inInverness, via the local DAB multiplex (Block 11B: 218.640 MHz) from the Mount Eagle transmitter.[1]
Prior to December 2014, the station was available via digital radio to theGreater London area via theSwitch London platform (12A - 223.936 MHz) via the following transmitter sites (transmitter power in brackets):
The London DAB slot occupied by Absolute Radio 00s was initially occupied by The Groove (laterVirgin Radio Groove), then byVirgin Radio Xtreme from September 2005; this was renamedAbsolute Xtreme in 2008 and closed in 2009, replaced byAbsolute Radio 80s; when the 80s service moved toDigital One,Absolute Radio 90s took the slot, and when the 90s service also went national, Absolute Radio 00s was launched.
In 2011 it was confirmed byOfcom that to accommodate the launch of new sister stationAbsolute Radio 70s, the reduction of the broadcast bitrate of Absolute Radio 00s would be permitted, resulting in the station moving from stereo to mono broadcasts.[2]
In December 2014, Absolute Radio 00s was removed from Switch London as part of a wider raft of changes to Bauer's DAB offerings. Absolute Radio 00s continues to be available nationally online as previously.
On 9 May 2020, a DAB+ broadcast of Absolute Radio 00s was made available to the London area over the CE London digital multiplex - the space for this was created the previous day (for the Absolute Radio 40s pop-up) by reducing the bandwidth allocated to the relay of Absolute Radio on the multiplex. From 28 April 2021, the broadcast of AR 00s on CE London switched from stereo DAB+ to a mono DAB service, using the capacity freed up by the removal of Absolute Radio from the multiplex two days prior. After three years in mono, AR 00s reverted to stereo DAB+ in April 2024 as part of measures to relocateHits Radio London to the CE multiplex; this was followed in September 2024 by the addition of Absolute Radio 00s andAbsolute Radio 10s to DAB in a number of areas around the UK, in many cases replacing other Bauer stations (chiefly, but not exclusively, those simulcast onSound Digital in the DAB+ format).[3]
