Have to laugh at the real northwest page 140+ people moaning about heart coming and only about 30 people like the news!
Aye some of the comments are laughable though with folk thinking that a few angry comments will change anything, as though it's something that has suddenly been decided and can be reversed as quickly! As if the "heart of the northwest" wasn't enough of a clue already!
Y'know if bauer are truly switched on they could capitalise on this really well, between their various ILR brands here and Absolute they could mop up a load of ex real listeners with just a bit spent on targeted advertising, no?
Or was it the Banks-pleasing mentioning of JACK fm?!?! ;-)
It was probably that to be fair, he saw that and seemed to love it! Banks is a proper nutjob (in a good way, radio needs more like him to appeal to the lads and ladettes!) and he's doing great turning around reading 107, their main hater is now a fan and she and her daughter were guests this morning! Really funny, irreverent stuff and not once did lady Gaga, one direction or take that get mentioned! We need more radio like that to rival heart IMHO.
pmsl seen it all before when Trent,Ram Fm,leicester sound and Galaxy all became Capital loads of people complaining despite the fact 2 weeks before they were banging out sweepers every other song saying capital is coming!! lol ,all of them saying they were going else where if they didn't get there stations back then hey ho all this moaners came flocking back to capital it will be the same thing all over again do they really believe Global are that bothered???? of course not there not stupid they no they will all be a back with in a month after getting bored of rock fm ,key 103 or Radio city ,global have learnt how to sell heart and capital and it's paid of for them all these moaners won't bother them lol
Many of the comments are just ill informed rants. I've seen a few thinking it will all be from London, there'll be no local news etc, or 80s/90s/00s music will be dumped as Heart play nothing but current chart music.
Many of the comments are just ill informed rants. I've seen a few thinking it will all be from London, there'll be no local news etc, or 80s/90s/00s music will be dumped as Heart play nothing but current chart music.
Yep, some people on Facebook don't seem to know that though.
The problem I think is that a lot of RR listeners don't really know that much about Heart ok they may have seen the odd tv add ,but they don't really get what heart is all about i think there's a lot who are jumping on a pre lets all hate heart band wagon when really they don't really know that much about them but I think within 4-6 weeks of Heart having time to bed in within the new area's I think they will grown to like them it's like any station re brands ,there's always some that will spit there dummy's out at first then after a while find them selfs drifting back, I say within 6 months RR will be a name that becomes lost in the history books
The problem I think is that a lot of RR listeners don't really know that much about Heart ok they may have seen the odd tv add ,but they don't really get what heart is all about i think there's a lot who are jumping on a pre lets all hate heart band wagon when really they don't really know that much about them but I think within 4-6 weeks of Heart having time to bed in within the new area's I think they will grown to like them it's like any station re brands ,there's always some that will spit there dummy's out at first then after a while find them selfs drifting back, I say within 6 months RR will be a name that becomes lost in the history books
Yup I agree, most folk won't know or care that what used to be there as long as the same bunch of songs they currently vaguely listen to along with some celeb fluff chat is still there as they drive their annoying, demanding, self-obsessed kids to and from school each day! Let's be honest, for a while Real Radio has been a heart clone anyway, this just completes the process.
Maybe for those who do care though, someone should set up a "Thank you Real Radio - RIP" facebook page?! ;-)
They just need to find a way to bring back Heart fm east midlands ,as they have a huge black hole in there national coverage without the east midlands baring in mid the east midlands covers Derbyshire,Nottinghamshire,Leicestershire,Parts of Linconshire ,Rutland ,North Northanhamptonshire, it's a huge chunk they lost to Gem 106 in 2011 ,just imagine if you're driving from the south east you can take heart all the way up north past birmingham but you than lose local coverage of heart as soon as you come into leicestershire and won't be able to pick up heart again untill you get upto North Derbyshire and South Yorkshire which means they lose out over a 100 miles of coverage surely that must effect the national TSA ,If they put Heart on the Capital leicester 105.4 frequency they will have a clear run through the east mids right up to the high peak and will then join back up with Heart North west on 105.4 ,Capital can still be heard in leicestershire on 96.2/5 and 102.8 based in Derby and Nottingham
They just need to find a way to bring back Heart fm east midlands ,as they have a huge black hole in there national coverage without the east midlands baring in mid the east midlands covers Derbyshire,Nottinghamshire,Leicestershire,Parts of Linconshire ,Rutland ,North Northanhamptonshire, it's a huge chunk they lost to Gem 106 in 2011 ,just imagine if you're driving from the south east you can take heart all the way up north past birmingham but you than lose local coverage of heart as soon as you come into leicestershire and won't be able to pick up heart again untill you get upto North Derbyshire and South Yorkshire which means they lose out over a 100 miles of coverage surely that must effect the national TSA ,If they put Heart on the Capital leicester 105.4 frequency they will have a clear run through the east mids right up to the high peak and will then join back up with Heart North west on 105.4 ,Capital can still be heard in leicestershire on 96.2/5 and 102.8 based in Derby and Nottingham
While Global were likely pretty gutted about losing the East Midlands, Capital is performing very well for them there and it likely wouldn't cost too much more (an extra studio at Capital, and two local jocks) it would eat quite heavily into Capital East Midlands TSA and make it a much smaller station, from a sales perspective it's probably more attractive to have a larger well performing station than split it into two smaller stations, especially as Orion are doing very well with Gem 106 (which plays similar music and would still be the larger station) anyway and it would further dilute all three hypothetical stations. In the ideal world they'd have kept hold of Heart there, but the Capital licences were bringing in more profit combined.
Many of the comments are just ill informed rants. I've seen a few thinking it will all be from London, there'll be no local news etc, or 80s/90s/00s music will be dumped as Heart play nothing but current chart music.
And that explains why radio stations don't take notice
Of facebook rants.
Has there been confirmation as to when the big change is actually going to take place?
It's a shame because, although the format was almost the same, and as mentioned before that RR has become the Heart clone, I will miss RR because it was something different. Where I live I can pick up 4 Heart stations (5 on higher ground) and 3 on DAB, and Real was a refreshing change, even if the reception is grainy and DAB non-existant
While Global were likely pretty gutted about losing the East Midlands, Capital is performing very well for them there and it likely wouldn't cost too much more (an extra studio at Capital, and two local jocks) it would eat quite heavily into Capital East Midlands TSA and make it a much smaller station, from a sales perspective it's probably more attractive to have a larger well performing station than split it into two smaller stations, especially as Orion are doing very well with Gem 106 (which plays similar music and would still be the larger station) anyway and it would further dilute all three hypothetical stations. In the ideal world they'd have kept hold of Heart there, but the Capital licences were bringing in more profit combined.
whilst yes in theory!!! that is great that capital are performing well however!!,gem 106 is of no finacial interest to global and there's always an open chance that orion may decide to rebrand them as free radio,global no longer market orion media so it would be of no hardship if heart went head to head with GEM 106 which as a station is utter rubbish!!!!!! and as no resemblance to heart,most people in the east midlands would rather have the real thing
As for North Wales, will Heart stay at Mold Road Wrexham with the old Real frequencies taking that feed, and Capital - will that originate in Wrexham as well or will the North West and North Wales capital come from Manchester for local programmes? Will the old Marcher stations just be a simulcast of what is currently on 102 in Manchester? From which studio will Welsh output come from?
Thanks
Heart will be staying at the Mold Road Studios, Wrexham. The building is currently undergoing some refurbishment so it can accomondate both Global and Communicorp staff. In general terms, Global staff will be one side of the building, Communicorp will be another.
Capital North Wales and North West (96.3FM, 97.1FM and 103.4FM) will come from Wrexham.
Capital Anglesy and Gwynedd (or whatever they decide to call it, Capital Cymru perhaps? on 103FM) will also come from Wrexham, as it does now in its Heart form. There's been no mention of it, as far as I'm aware in whats come out today, but 103FM will, unless there's been a last minute change, will have separate Breakfast and Drive shows to the other Capital North Wales, as those shows are in Welsh. There's been no announcement on whose presenting what on Capital 103FM, as far as I'm aware, but I'd be surprised if they brought in new presenters to present Breakfast and Drive. Perhaps a re-shuffle maybe as its something new, or just sticking with the status quo
Who will be presenting what, has already been said earlier in the thread but in a nut shell, in Wales, it will be:
Heart South and West Wales
Jagger & Woody at Breakfast, Jason Harrold on Drive, Dave Brooks on weekends.
Heart North and Mid Wales
Spence and Fiona on Breakfast, Oli Kemp on Drive, Rachel Howarth on weekends
Capital North Wales and North West
Graeme Smith and Sarah Story on Breakfast, Ben Sheppard on Drive
Capital 103FM (Anglesy and Gwynedd)
Just presuming it will still be Kev Bach and Alistair James in either the same slots or possibly a change around as its something new.
whilst yes in theory!!! that is great that capital are performing well however!!,gem 106 is of no finacial interest to global and there's always an open chance that orion may decide to rebrand them as free radio,global no longer market orion media so it would be of no hardship if heart went head to head with GEM 106 which as a station is utter rubbish!!!!!! and as no resemblance to heart,most people in the east midlands would rather have the real thing
GEM 106 recently had broke the 106 listening figures
So it looks like 6 May then for Heart to start properly on the Real frequencies.
Can you tell me why you think the ending of the name "Real Radio" will be from 1600 on Friday 2 May? That would leave them without a drive show.
What is your evidence for this, or are you going on past experience so to speak - ie when other stations changed to Heart? In the case of Chiltern radio, they had presenters right up to 12 noon on the Saturday.
Please can you say why you think it will stop at 1600 on Friday 2nd mAY. tHANKS.
The Real Radio All Request Workday (or whatever its called) would finish at 4pm, Drivetime would be as normal. The days to look for are the Sunday (4th) after 7pm, All day Monday (5th) and then the Tuesday 6th May.
With living in Yorkshire I have to listen on DAB from London. For myself I have been waiting for Heart Yorkshire and it's finally going to arrive . When driving down to London it's possible to get it from the West Midlands freq, but it's poor in places. As a previous poster has mention a fair size gap. What's needed is this gap to be filled. Could this be done later?
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It's a good song why would you not want it.
Aye some of the comments are laughable though with folk thinking that a few angry comments will change anything, as though it's something that has suddenly been decided and can be reversed as quickly! As if the "heart of the northwest" wasn't enough of a clue already!
Y'know if bauer are truly switched on they could capitalise on this really well, between their various ILR brands here and Absolute they could mop up a load of ex real listeners with just a bit spent on targeted advertising, no?
It was probably that to be fair, he saw that and seemed to love it! Banks is a proper nutjob (in a good way, radio needs more like him to appeal to the lads and ladettes!) and he's doing great turning around reading 107, their main hater is now a fan and she and her daughter were guests this morning! Really funny, irreverent stuff and not once did lady Gaga, one direction or take that get mentioned! We need more radio like that to rival heart IMHO.
Yeah, that'll teach Global.
Aye I spotted that on the Yorkshire one, had to point out the common ownership to that guy!
Heart play 80s 90s and today....
Yep, some people on Facebook don't seem to know that though.
The problem I think is that a lot of RR listeners don't really know that much about Heart ok they may have seen the odd tv add ,but they don't really get what heart is all about i think there's a lot who are jumping on a pre lets all hate heart band wagon when really they don't really know that much about them but I think within 4-6 weeks of Heart having time to bed in within the new area's I think they will grown to like them it's like any station re brands ,there's always some that will spit there dummy's out at first then after a while find them selfs drifting back, I say within 6 months RR will be a name that becomes lost in the history books
Yup I agree, most folk won't know or care that what used to be there as long as the same bunch of songs they currently vaguely listen to along with some celeb fluff chat is still there as they drive their annoying, demanding, self-obsessed kids to and from school each day! Let's be honest, for a while Real Radio has been a heart clone anyway, this just completes the process.
Maybe for those who do care though, someone should set up a "Thank you Real Radio - RIP" facebook page?! ;-)
While Global were likely pretty gutted about losing the East Midlands, Capital is performing very well for them there and it likely wouldn't cost too much more (an extra studio at Capital, and two local jocks) it would eat quite heavily into Capital East Midlands TSA and make it a much smaller station, from a sales perspective it's probably more attractive to have a larger well performing station than split it into two smaller stations, especially as Orion are doing very well with Gem 106 (which plays similar music and would still be the larger station) anyway and it would further dilute all three hypothetical stations. In the ideal world they'd have kept hold of Heart there, but the Capital licences were bringing in more profit combined.
Love it, saw the same when Galaxy changed to Capital on the South Coast, "I'll listen to Heart instead!" yeah that'll teach em!
And that explains why radio stations don't take notice
Of facebook rants.
It's a shame because, although the format was almost the same, and as mentioned before that RR has become the Heart clone, I will miss RR because it was something different. Where I live I can pick up 4 Heart stations (5 on higher ground) and 3 on DAB, and Real was a refreshing change, even if the reception is grainy and DAB non-existant
North west
Breakfast: Joel and Lorna (Joel replaces Glen Hunt)
Drive: Russ Morris (replacing Oli Kemp)
Weekends: Debbie Mac
North East - No change
Breakfast: Gary and Lisa
Drive: Justin and Kelly
Weekends: Sarah Graham
Yorkshire
Breakfast: Dixie and Emma (Emma replaces Gayle Lofthouse)
Drive: Rich Williams (replacing Ian Brannan)
Weekends: Ian Brannan
South Wales - No change
Breakfast: Jagger and Woody
Drive: Jason Harrold
Weekends: Dave Brookes
North Wales - No change
Breakfast: Spence McDonald and Fiona Sadler
Drive: Oli Kemp
Weekends: Rachel Howarth
Scotland - No change
Breakfast: Ewen Cameron and Cat Harvey
Drive: Paul Harper
Weekends: Steve McKenna
The only thing they haven't announced today is who will take on Saturday breakfast
whilst yes in theory!!! that is great that capital are performing well however!!,gem 106 is of no finacial interest to global and there's always an open chance that orion may decide to rebrand them as free radio,global no longer market orion media so it would be of no hardship if heart went head to head with GEM 106 which as a station is utter rubbish!!!!!! and as no resemblance to heart,most people in the east midlands would rather have the real thing
I would think JK and Lucy will do saturday breakfast
Will Heart be making a slight change to their logo to incorporate the 88FM frequency in Wrexham and North East Wales? ;-)
Heart will be staying at the Mold Road Studios, Wrexham. The building is currently undergoing some refurbishment so it can accomondate both Global and Communicorp staff. In general terms, Global staff will be one side of the building, Communicorp will be another.
Capital North Wales and North West (96.3FM, 97.1FM and 103.4FM) will come from Wrexham.
Capital Anglesy and Gwynedd (or whatever they decide to call it, Capital Cymru perhaps? on 103FM) will also come from Wrexham, as it does now in its Heart form. There's been no mention of it, as far as I'm aware in whats come out today, but 103FM will, unless there's been a last minute change, will have separate Breakfast and Drive shows to the other Capital North Wales, as those shows are in Welsh. There's been no announcement on whose presenting what on Capital 103FM, as far as I'm aware, but I'd be surprised if they brought in new presenters to present Breakfast and Drive. Perhaps a re-shuffle maybe as its something new, or just sticking with the status quo
Who will be presenting what, has already been said earlier in the thread but in a nut shell, in Wales, it will be:
Heart South and West Wales
Jagger & Woody at Breakfast, Jason Harrold on Drive, Dave Brooks on weekends.
Heart North and Mid Wales
Spence and Fiona on Breakfast, Oli Kemp on Drive, Rachel Howarth on weekends
Capital North Wales and North West
Graeme Smith and Sarah Story on Breakfast, Ben Sheppard on Drive
Capital 103FM (Anglesy and Gwynedd)
Just presuming it will still be Kev Bach and Alistair James in either the same slots or possibly a change around as its something new.
Yes good call didn't realize Saturday breakfast was networked from London just looked through a few of the heart regions and it is
GEM 106 recently had broke the 106 listening figures
The Real Radio All Request Workday (or whatever its called) would finish at 4pm, Drivetime would be as normal. The days to look for are the Sunday (4th) after 7pm, All day Monday (5th) and then the Tuesday 6th May.