Palm 105.5FM

Juiceman99 · 26/08/15 - 19:34

Have heard slogans mentioning A brand new Breeze is coming to south Devon. Keep listening for more info on Palm fm today. Not heard anything official but is Palm becoming The Breeze?

swb1964 · 26/08/15 - 20:40

I would almost certainly say 'yes' given that nearly all the other Celador stations have this name.

graemehardman · 26/08/15 - 21:22

http://www.thebreeze.com/southdevon/

The website is almost ready...

Bollard · 26/08/15 - 22:34

Such a shame but I guess Palm doesn't make much profit if any.
At least the mess of 105.5 / 105.6 here will be the same!

Juiceman99 · 26/08/15 - 22:58

Hi are they just changing Palm to The Breeze or are other stations affected like Radio Plymouth.

RadioMonster · 27/08/15 - 05:40

For now, only Palm.

NokiaNokia · 27/08/15 - 07:22

Bollard wrote: »

Such a shame but I guess Palm doesn't make much profit if any.
At least the mess of 105.5 / 105.6 here will be the same!

At least the South Devon listeners will be able to enjoy many more prgrammes live and direct from Southampton. The network presentets will be brushing up on their Devon knowledge (ie. getting the map books out) ahead of recording those fabulous split links. The Palm listeners will have never had it so good; as Celador's Paul Smith himself once said, nobody does local radio like Celador!

hanssolo · 27/08/15 - 07:29

Bollard wrote: »

Such a shame but I guess Palm doesn't make much profit if any.

It will still have local news and breakfast show which is better than handing back the licence.

pjex · 27/08/15 - 10:16

hanssolo wrote: »

It will still have local news and breakfast show which is better than handing back the licence.

Networked drive too?

Deleted_User381237831 · 27/08/15 - 11:02

Juiceman99 wrote: »

Hi are they just changing Palm to The Breeze or are other stations affected like Radio Plymouth.

Radio Plymouth isn't owned by Celador

Bangers · 27/08/15 - 11:16

plymouthbloke1974 wrote: »

Radio Plymouth isn't owned by Celador

That'll be news to Celador, who own 36% of Radio Plymouth. http://radiotoday.co.uk/2013/12/bob-mccreadie-for-radio-plymouth-breakfast/

Deleted_User381237831 · 27/08/15 - 11:27

That article is 2 years old. They are now 100% locally owned.

Bangers · 27/08/15 - 11:48

Well the article is indeed out of date. A quick check at Companies House reveals that Celador now own 51.6% of Radio Plymouth.

Deleted_User381237831 · 27/08/15 - 11:59

Interesting.... They claim to be 100% locally owned by local shareholders...

Mind you, I think The Breeze would be a better replacement TBH

hanssolo · 27/08/15 - 14:04

Bangers wrote: »

Well the article is indeed out of date. A quick check at Companies House reveals that Celador now own 51.6% of Radio Plymouth.

http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/story/2013-03-19/locals-to-control-radio-plymouth/
2 years ago

Previously the company was majority owned by a London based media company.
Now several of the local shareholders have injected substantial new capital into the business gaining a 64% controlling interest for the local shareholder group of nine individuals.

Maybe one, or more, of the nine has sold out?
Will others?

PDMB · 27/08/15 - 14:29

I am surprised there not rebranding Torbay & Plymouth at the same time (assuming they do now have a majority stake-holding in Plymouth).

I presume the local South Devon shows will be broadcast from Torbay (assuming they are not going to be voice-tracked by presenter based at one of the other local hubs across the South & West).

Bollard · 27/08/15 - 18:45

As unpopular as Breeze is with us anoraks, I feel there is a handful of stations that would have closed down years ago if they haven't bought them. Especially Somerset, where at least they provide an alternative to Heart

Bollard · 27/08/15 - 18:55

PDMB wrote: »

I presume the local South Devon shows will be broadcast from Torbay (assuming they are not going to be voice-tracked by presenter based at one of the other local hubs across the South & West).

I'm not sure they can do that as the shows have to come from within a certain region. I'm not sure what region Devon comes under.

SouthCity · 27/08/15 - 19:43

Bollard wrote: »

I'm not sure they can do that as the shows have to come from within a certain region. I'm not sure what region Devon comes under.

Devon & Cornwall is one Ofcom approved area, so the 7 hours a day will have to come from Torbay or Plymouth (these are the two Celador owned stations in the area).

It could be a voicetracked show but this has to be played out from studios in the approved area.

swb1964 · 27/08/15 - 20:49

Bollard wrote: »

As unpopular as Breeze is with us anoraks, I feel there is a handful of stations that would have closed down years ago if they haven't bought them. Especially Somerset, where at least they provide an alternative to Heart

What format is 'the Breeze'? How do they differ from Heart?

HistoricDealer · 27/08/15 - 23:34

I guess I'm in a minority but compared to a lot of the junk of these frequencies in the past, The Breeze sounds very professional and the news/travel is pretty good compared to others on the dial.

Anyone for a bit of Total Star?!

Plus how the likes of Vale FM survived as long as it did - even as Midwest is mind boggling - it's 2 small towns and some fields!

Just a shame RDS AF doesn't seem to work that well - along the a303 there are loads of different breezes fading in and out but no easy way to know which is which.

pjex · 28/08/15 - 14:31

Given the Radio X news on the Moyles forum looks like Radio Exe will soon be a Breeze just don't see how you can have two stations with names souding exactly the same.

Could save a lot by merging Palm, Exe and Plymouth into a Breeze Devon, would put the combined station in a stronger position to take on Heart, how about including Pirate in the merger to include Cornwall?