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Black Box
18-01-2015
Originally Posted by Sarahsaurus:
“Not sure what you mean by "automated",but I'm pretty sure there's a live presenter because at 3am she does that "text in and tell me what you're doing" thing. Real Radio used to do it as well,they called it the "3am club". I have always thought it's completely pointless,I mean,who cares?

But some people like to text in and get their name mentioned on the radio.

But as it's Heart,there will obviously be no mention of what part of the country they're in.”

How can you not understand "automated"?
harrykent
18-01-2015
Sunday 0100 is 0600 is always live with Lucy Ellis. However sometimes the links are recorded a few minutes before being aired - this happens on most of the networked shows. Sometimes these pre-recorded links try and make the show sound local. For example when I listen to Heart Heart Kent, I've heard Roberto say "It's just gone 7 o'clock in Kent".

Also if there has been a big traffic incident in a certain county they will announce that with link that's only aired on some stations.
Radiogram
18-01-2015
Originally Posted by harrykent:
“Sunday 0100 is 0600 is always live with Lucy Ellis. However sometimes the links are recorded a few minutes before being aired - this happens on most of the networked shows. Sometimes these pre-recorded links try and make the show sound local. For example when I listen to Heart Heart Kent, I've heard Roberto say "It's just gone 7 o'clock in Kent".

Also if there has been a big traffic incident in a certain county they will announce that with link that's only aired on some stations.”

Seems pretty pointless to me if they say that seeing as it is the same time throughout the UK. One token mention of a local area does not make local radio.
simonk243
18-01-2015
Originally Posted by Sarahsaurus:
“The Time Tunnel at 2am is easily the best bit of the Heart overnight show. You get to hear a few records off the normal playlist,and it's half an hour where you will be spared having to listen to George Ezra,Ed Sheeran,Sam Smith or John Legend.

Last night it was 1984. They played some good tunes but felt the need to trot out Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want To Have Fun,a Heart standard that gets plenty of airplay anyway.

The presenter mentioned that one of the big films that year was Ghostbusters,with the theme tune by Ray Parker Jnr,a great record and very well known that was a massive hit at the time.

Why couldn't they have played that instead?”

I totally agree about the time tunnel they often play tracks not normally heard on Heart the other day I heard a spice girls track which is unusual but they appeared in that top 100 on new years day many times so listeners like them if they took the effort to vote for them.
Gavin_D
18-01-2015
Originally Posted by Black Box:
“Is the 01:00-06:00 show on a Sunday automated?

This morning at around 05:40 on Heart Yorkshire, the presenter did a link, then a few seconds in, the same link was playing over the top of it.”

The following shows are pre-recorded

Friday evenings between 19:00 and 21:00

Saturday afternoons / evenings between 17:00 and 21:00

Sunday evenings 19:00 to 22:00

All other shows are live
occy
18-01-2015
Clearly hear the recorded link running over the top of eachother during Lucy Ellis Sunday overnight show until it was sorted.
pjex
18-01-2015
Originally Posted by Radiogram:
“Seems pretty pointless to me if they say that seeing as it is the same time throughout the UK. One token mention of a local area does not make local radio.”

So does Roberto sit there and record the same line for the 20 or so places Heart covers?
Sarahsaurus
19-01-2015
Originally Posted by pjex:
“So does Roberto sit there and record the same line for the 20 or so places Heart covers?”

Maybe all the presenters have recorded these links that they use every now and again although I can't remember ever hearing one in Scotland on the overnight show on Heart,which is the only time I listen to it.

If these links have been recorded,and are used,then,as somebody said above,it is a pretty feeble attempt to make Heart sound like a local station when we know that apart from the weekday breakfast and drivetime shows,it isn't.
Declan_McGrath1
19-01-2015
What a mess the BT40 was yesterday afternoon on Heart North Wales it was cut off halfway through with the back up tape lasting nearly 30 mins then before 7pm the ads crashed into the top 10, when the show finished an advert was played and got cut off hallway through and the 7 pm news failed. Then it was okey at 8 pm but gaps of slicence whne the songs finished
wckartist
19-01-2015
Originally Posted by Declan_McGrath1:
“What a mess the BT40 was yesterday afternoon on Heart North Wales it was cut off halfway through with the back up tape lasting nearly 30 mins then before 7pm the ads crashed into the top 10, when the show finished an advert was played and got cut off hallway through and the 7 pm news failed. Then it was okey at 8 pm but gaps of slicence whne the songs finished ”

Nearly six hours since you posted this.........

I see the "usual suspects" have given this a swerve, as per...
pjex
19-01-2015
Originally Posted by wckartist:
“Nearly six hours since you posted this.........

I see the "usual suspects" have given this a swerve, as per...”

Heart just doesn't have the skilled technical staff to prevent these issues which would not happen on the BBC.

Technical staff cost money and the loss of revenue from these mistakes probably doesn't justify the additional staff required to prevent them.

Everyone needs to remember Commercial Radio is a business all that matters are the financials everything else is irrelevant if it has no impact on profitability.
wckartist
19-01-2015
Originally Posted by pjex:
“Everyone needs to remember Commercial Radio is a business all that matters are the financials everything else is irrelevant if it has no impact on profitability.”


I thought to be a successful business, you had to offer a decent service....

Oh, silly me for not knowing numerous cock ups and sparse staffing levels is the way forward!
dpb
19-01-2015
Originally Posted by pjex:
“Heart just doesn't have the skilled technical staff to prevent these issues which would not happen on the BBC.

Technical staff cost money and the loss of revenue from these mistakes probably doesn't justify the additional staff required to prevent them.

Everyone needs to remember Commercial Radio is a business all that matters are the financials everything else is irrelevant if it has no impact on profitability.”

Originally Posted by wckartist:
“I thought to be a successful business, you had to offer a decent service....

Oh, silly me for not knowing numerous cock ups and sparse staffing levels is the way forward!”

It seems to me a lot of broadcasters have these problems - people have moaned about problems with Bauer following the change to its set up. Even the BBC has had problems - the two for one Bob Harris a couple of years back and a few months back Feedback had complaints about Radio 4 long wave not switching to the opt-outs.
Station ID
19-01-2015
Originally Posted by wckartist:
“Nearly six hours since you posted this.........

I see the "usual suspects" have given this a swerve, as per...”

Perhaps the usual suspects don't read this thread.

It's not great bit perhaps the problems were weather related or the weather impeded the ability of a technical person to get to the site. I gather Wales is quite rural and at this time on a Sunday the on call person would have been away from the building.

In truth I have no idea what happened but the odd mistake is no big deal especially at a time when radio listening is low.
Gavin_D
19-01-2015
New heart comp is called 100 happy days the prize is one hundred thousand pounds

Looks like who's on heart has gone into retirement to the joy of many I suspect
NokiaNokia
19-01-2015
Does the production for the 100 Happy Days feature the music of Pharrel Williams by any chance?
pi r squared
19-01-2015
Not yet, but I'd bet my left nut that it will at some point in the future....
JordyD
20-01-2015
The new updated Heart ad.... Could they use a more annoying cut of that song? They've stripped the best parts of it and put the most annoying part on a loop.

Certainly doesn't give me that 'Heart feeling'.

Also, it's nice to hear a regionalised version from Emma Bunton, but why not feature the local presenters as well?
Sarahsaurus
20-01-2015
Originally Posted by JordyD:
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Also, it's nice to hear a regionalised version from Emma Bunton, but why not feature the local presenters as well?”

Incidentally it's Emma Bunton's birthday tomorrow. "Baby Spice" will be thirty-nine! How did that happen?

I bought all the Spice Girls merchandise back in the day. Even bought the dolls. (Barbie sized ones. Not life size.) Then they brought another set out with different outfits so of course I had to buy them all again.

Emma Bunton had a number one in 2001,What Took You So Long. Good song.

They should play that on the Time Tunnel one night.

Preferably on a Friday or a Saturday night,when I'll hear it.
Declan_McGrath1
20-01-2015
Originally Posted by Station ID:
“Perhaps the usual suspects don't read this thread.

It's not great bit perhaps the problems were weather related or the weather impeded the ability of a technical person to get to the site. I gather Wales is quite rural and at this time on a Sunday the on call person would have been away from the building.

In truth I have no idea what happened but the odd mistake is no big deal especially at a time when radio listening is low.”

So who babysits the local stations when there on the London Feed during network hours incase technical problems happen?
Station ID
20-01-2015
Originally Posted by Declan_McGrath1:
“So who babysits the local stations when there on the London Feed during network hours incase technical problems happen?”

They don't need babysitting the technology will take care of itself. If anything goes wrong the technical people will more than likely get a call out.
Mall
20-01-2015
Originally Posted by Station ID:
“They don't need babysitting the technology will take care of itself. If anything goes wrong the technical people will more than likely get a call out.”

Which means the kind of problems detailed above, whilst the arrival of technical staff is awaited (which, it has already been pointed out, can take considerably longer in harsh winter weather) rather than an immediate repair instigated by onsite staff.

On yet another issue, given the choice between providing a quality service and penny pinching to bolster profits...penny pinching wins every time!
Station ID
20-01-2015
Originally Posted by Mall:
“Which means the kind of problems detailed above, whilst the arrival of technical staff is awaited (which, it has already been pointed out, can take considerably longer in harsh winter weather) rather than an immediate repair instigated by onsite staff.

On yet another issue, given the choice between providing a quality service and penny pinching to bolster profits...penny pinching wins every time!”

of course my posts are just guessing as although I have good industry knowledge I have never worked for Global.

Your poat above is correct up to a point as in an ideal world stations would be staffed 24 hours a day 365 days a year. This is the real world however and for one of the smaller stations on the network the loss of revenue for a few ads not played off peak would be tiny wheras the cost of having staff sitting there doing nothing every day would be huge. It's just a no brainer in the business world.

Even the BBC don't do this these days.
Declan_McGrath1
21-01-2015
Originally Posted by Station ID:
“of course my posts are just guessing as although I have good industry knowledge I have never worked for Global.

Your poat above is correct up to a point as in an ideal world stations would be staffed 24 hours a day 365 days a year. This is the real world however and for one of the smaller stations on the network the loss of revenue for a few ads not played off peak would be tiny wheras the cost of having staff sitting there doing nothing every day would be huge. It's just a no brainer in the business world.

Even the BBC don't do this these days.”

I think most of the technicians have remote access to the computers from there own home if anything happens.
simonk243
21-01-2015
I wonder if they'll pay Madonna's new tune probably not unfortunately. I've heard it on Heat radio probably the only other station will be Radio2.

We need some Madonna tunes post 1990
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