Hahahaha. Just chuckled away for a while at that.

I can't imagine Heart doing anything out of the ordinary. News on the hour, that'll be it. If people want news on the election there will be tons of coverage on the night elsewhere - indeed, people may go to Heart to get away from it.

"So text in and tell us why you're up at this time of night,"

Ten minutes later:

"We've had a text in from Nick from Sheffield who's sitting in a big hall with lots of people milling around in hi-viz jackets and he's wondering if he's going to lose his seat."

Of course they would never actually read that out.

Or if they did,they'd edit out the "from Sheffield" bit,because as we know on Heart,on the overnight networked show,listeners that text in never have their locations revealed. Unless they're listening abroad,of course.

We don't want the listeners cottoning on to the fact that everybody all over the country is listening to the same show,do we? (Except for the "Scotland's Heart" jingles.) And for listeners in Scotland to hear "Hello to Karen in Bristol" would rather destroy the illusion that Heart's a "local" station.

Frankly,I don't know why they bother pretending. If somebody texts in from Bristol,then read it out as so and so from Bristol. Ok,so then people will realise that it's not a local show and everybody all over the country is listening to the same thing. But so what? Will it make people turn over? Will they stop listening?

You could argue that Heart doesn't credit its audience with very much intelligence that if they keep up this pretence by never saying the locations of people that text in,the listeners won't realise that it's a networked show.

I would say that the fact that they never read out a listener's town or city makes it blatantly obvious that it's networked.

Spot on!


On the one hand, the "usual suspects" keep telling us the average listener doesn't care if the show is not local, but, as you say, they go to some length NEVER to mention where the caller or text / e-mail has come from!

The 2 network that used to be magic in the north , that covers Scotland as well now reads out where people are from all the time .

Allow me to fill you in with why. The majority of people sending in a text actually don't put their location in as part of the message. Its as simple as that.

Zoe Hardman is in for Mark Wight on club classics next Friday and Saturday. Mark is off on his stag do

' This is what we call More Music Variety'

The majority don't,alright. Perhaps less do now than they used to,because they know that it never gets mentioned. But even if the majority don't,that means there must still be some that do put their location.

But they still never read it out.

I certainly can't remember ever hearing a town or city or whatever read out in a text on the overnight shift,or indeed anything that gives away the texter's location.

Perhaps I might conduct a small test,text in saying where I'm working and what part of the country it's in,and see if it all gets read out.

It doesn't bother me. I never text in anyway.

But I do think it's quite funny.

Rich Clarke has played Taylor Swift's Shake It Off twice in the space of 3 hours 7 minutes in his show this afternoon first it was played at 14:30 and its just played again 17:37

http://www.heart.co.uk/london/on-air...=30&find_song=

http://www.heart.co.uk/london/on-air...=40&find_song=

Why would you need to argue it? It's obvious!!

Only to the shallow thinker

This isn't that surprising. The overnight weekend show starts at 1am. Quite often they'll play some of the the usual Heart artists like Sam Smith,Taylor Swift,George Ezra,Ed Sheeran and Take That early on in the show,say the first hour. Then around 5am,you get them again.

I notice you ignored the recent "text" post, and also the " song played twice in the same show" post as well.....

Says it all really!

How come Jamie and Emma only do 3 hours on breakfast? I'm assuming the rest do 4 to fill local broadcasting hours?

Great new tune by Clean Bandit "stronger" really catchy and uplifting and the Nick Jonas tune "Jealous" would sound good on heart considering they've been adding a few new ones lately how about these.

And would really love Years and Years "King" very popular.

But probably be told there all more capital than Heart unfortunately 😔

A 'show' =/= a period of time someone listens. Shorter bursts of listening is probably more common than listening from 10-1, or 1-4 etc.

Yep 7 hours of local content is needed outside London Monday to Friday with exceptions over Christmas and bank holidays

Precisely it's only the jock and obsessive who really notice. The real listener gets familiar hits and fun company in reliable measures. 'This is Heart' 😉

Toby Anstis' 9am start gets round that problem. I think JT does another programme for them as well, or he did, straight after.Toby is only heard in London at 9, everywhere else 10.

So, you are crediting the majority of listeners with little or no intelligence!

Noticed the current Meghan Trainor track on earlier; presume that's new?

Ha ha only you could have contorted that from my post.

Desperate attacks aside, Heart isn't and never will be aimed at intellectuals, but many I know enjoy listening to it recreationally. They also like R4 R3 R2 and bits of Jazz FM, because unbelievably they listen to different stations for different reasons. Shocking I know 😉

Dear Future Husband was added 2 weeks ago (except for London and West Mids).

Perception I have.

Pre Heart, Chiltern Radio used to add about five new releases on a Monday.
I often get the feeling Heart only add 1 or 2 new releases. Whilst hammering out other songs for six months. Ironically it seems an artist can have a song played to death, then the next release not fit in the Heart brand and get ignored.

[quote=SmartProgrammer;77951241]Dear Future Husband was added 2 weeks ago (except for London and West Mids).[/QUOTE]

Would you care to elaborate why that is, just for those who are unaware...............?