Virgin/Absolute Radio
After a brief spell at Fire Radio in Bournemouth, in 2001 he joined Virgin Radio (now Absolute Radio), initially working in late night or overnight spots. In 2004 he became the host of the Most Wanted show, but in late 2006, he was allocated the Virgin Radio Drivetime show an afternoon/early evening show at one of the peak listening times of the day. He has, however, worked in many slots on the radio station at various times of the day and week, often filling in for missing DJs. Jones has presented a wide variety of shows, including Afternoons, Virgin Superstars, Most Wanted, Virgin radio drive-time, Album Chart, Sunday Night Live 7-10pm. Since July 2007 however, Jones has returned to primarily host the Most Wanted show. This suits Jones's needs well, given that interviewing well established actors and successful musicians and any musical sessions is one of his most desired areas of radio broadcasting.
In late October and early November 2008, Jones co-presented the Christian O' Connell Breakfast show whilst O'Connell was on leave. With the changing of ownership of Virgin Radio and naming to Absolute Radio, a move to focus more on classic rock music with greater flexibility in the choice of music played, at this time in 2008.
When Virgin rebranded to Absolute Radio they announced the launch of four new weekly shows, The 90s hour, the album hour, the classic artist hour and The A-Z hour. All of these were hosted by Jones. Jones also presented on DAB Digital sister station Absolute 80's weekdays from 1 pm to 5 pm. Jones also co-presented the weekly Absolute Radio Movies Extra Podcast with Adrian Hieatt. His former evening show was broadcast just after Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show between 8pm-11pm.
On 9 May 2011, It was confirmed that Ben will leave Absolute Radio and Absolute 80s at the end of July 2011 to pursue new projects. Ben presented his last show on Absolute Radio on Friday 29 July 2011.
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