Rich Clarkes racking up the cover lately, Monday he did Heart Drive London as well as normal Breakfast He's doing two shows Friday as well as covering for JK and Stephen &Emma at the weekend.

Why did he cover drive on Monday

JK & Lucy were on breakfast

Why did they cover breakfast?

Jamie had an operation last Friday and Emma was on her own Jamie wasn't able to return on Monday so JK and Lucy covered instead of having Emma on her own again

Was thinking today whats happened to Rude by Magic. It seems to be dropped like a stone

Do all heart stations play the same music all the time now, there used to be some difference on local shows but I've noticed when I've switched between my local station and London (out of network hours) there playing the exact same songs at the same time ?

Yes, the recent format changes mean all Heart stations can take the London playlist during local shows. The ex-Gcap stations used to play a lot more newer music during local shows.

Rich is on heart London with lucy as JK is off

As mentioned a few posts up

I didnt realise that post meant this friday

Network crashed at 14:24. 10 secs of silence then the old classic broken strings kicked in, although didn't work well what with it being the happy hour!

What an earth is going on!

Adverts playing over uptown funk at 14:35 and then silence again at 14:43 then broken strings kicks in AGAIN! 🙈

This is just too much! At 15:00 silence again and broken strings kicks in!

Matt goes to the news at 15:01 to the sound of no news! Just the music bed playing for 60secs 🙈

oh dear...its a heart attack!

Same thing happened on heart north and mid wales. also there sister station capital N Wales had an hour of ads because the opt out at 5 am failed this morning. it was not the usual ads it was change 4 life and home safety ads on a loop

Pathetic, it REALLY is!!


I notice the "yes men" have gone into hiding, yet again!

Haaaaa.
I just think they have better things to do than get into a debate about an isolated technical problem on one site.
Which I'm aware I'm now doing.

I don't recall any of the "yes men" (which is a ridiculous term) ever claiming that Heart is completely immune from technical difficulties.

Loads of radio stations have technical problems; I've heard recordings for prerecorded content going out live on Heat, and regular silences and gaps and curtailed songs on Jack FM Surrey, but people only ever seem to moan when Heart has a technical glitch.

On the bright side,that's a whole hour without an Ed Sheeran record.

So that makes is all right then??

You think shoddy output is acceptable!

The thing is, no one seems to learn from this amateurism, when in this day and age, with technology available, it should be easy enough to sound professional!

It's because a lot,of shows have links prerecorded hence when something goes wrong you'll hear the news repeat itself or talking over a jingle

What would you expect them to say?

It's pretty obvious that anything involving technology is going to have the odd technical glitch. It happens to every radio station at some time or another. Even Radio 1 and Radio have suffered from them. I seem to recall a mistake being made on a pre recorded show not that long ago on Radio 2. It happens and it's no big deal.