Changes To Heart North East Breakfast
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Heart North East’s Breakfast presenter Gary Philipson and Lisa Shaw are leaving the station at the end of this month, RadioToday can reveal.
http://radiotoday.co.uk/2014/12/gary-and-lisa-to-leave-heart-north-east-breakfast/
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The presenter from another Heart station that could present the Drivetime show, could be Claire Lawson who currently presents weekend afternoons on Heart Kent.
http://www.heart.co.uk/kent/on-air/weekends/claire-lawson/
I wonder if Gary and Lisa will move to Bauer's new Greatest Hits Network on Metro Radio 2 (formally Magic 1152) from January 2015. Anna Foster who used to present the Breakfast Show has moved to the local TV station, Made In Tyne & Wear.
Alternatively Gary or Lisa could move to Smooth Radio North East to present one or both of the Weekend afternoon show between 14.00 - 18.00 and we will be relief presenter for Breakfast and Drive.
Gary and Lisa will end up on Metro!
I think if we are honest they do not fit the Heart Breakfast mold and a few were suprised when they stayed. Global have a list of ex G Cappers ect that have been kept in touch with so it's more than likely to be someone whom was a casualty in the relaunches, it's more likely signed and done with.
This Station North East has had a lot of change in its history, a number of Breakfast Shows and PD's ect and needs to settle, they know it too so its doubtfull they will go for a complete newby to the Group!
I see Claire Lawson's name mentioned...she's from Thirsk and as worked in the Format and the with current PC Giles at TFM...maybe she'll arrive, maybe not?
What about Anna Foster...free from next year I gather?
Firstly, that award was overseen by their mate, and secondly check their figures. This has consistently been the worst (or all but) performing breakfast show in a medium to large market in the UK.
They only survived so long because the takeover took that long. Almost everybody knew this day was coming.
I can't quite put my finger on it, I get the feeling you don't like them. I may be wrong though.
Ex The Wolf/Signal 107 until a few months back, then he went to Heart Gloucester.
Unfortunately, once The Wolf took over the MNA transmitters, the Signal 107 audience share plummeted, which is a pity as I found the music logs are slightly better than Free and the station was local during daytime, not networked to death like Free / Heart / Crapital.
Anyhow, this is a Heart thread... so good luck Tom if you read this thread. Dare you to play a song that ISN'T on the Heart playlist. For the lolz.
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Looks like another drivetime presenter needed in Gloucester then
He's a really talented guy - very funny! Well done to him on yet another great achievement!
Ben Weston will most likely be covering. To be honest I don't know why they don't just take them off the air from now and be done with it. No use them flogging a dead horse. I love Gary and Lisa but if they don't want them there just get rid.
A very Safe move for Heart North East, they're okay....given some proper Coaching by the PD and hard work they could be good at Breakfast but that makes 5 him and her style Breakfast Shows from 2015 in the North East!
Heart - Justin & Kelly
Capital - Matt, Bodge & Jo Jo
Sun FM - Simon & Danni
Metro/TFM - Steve & Karen
BBC Newcastle - Alfie & Charlie
Hearts PD has 2 Morning Shows to try and coach and a silly workload hence he has a Dep PD and really does not have that much control over the station creatively, infact thats why they are called Content Controllers...they cant make any Major Changes!
Good luck to them but I suspect they will have less than 6 months to prove themselves when a Breakfast Show needs at least a year...unless it is really bad!
Again...nobody in the Market here is pushing the envelope...all very safe!
Ian Brannan will be covering drivetime till January 5th
I also noticed that Lisa Shaw was reading the news on Saturday morning on BBC Newcastle.
I used to listen to Magic 1152 quite a lot. I liked the Golden Years and the Rewind Top 20 particularly. According to what Bauer are saying, Magic had been losing listeners for several years. I hardly think that this rebrand will help. They have turned a good station into an unlistenable mess.