No thanks

Talking about the same songs over and over again I was looking through the Book Of Hit Singles and was surprised that Abba released more than one song! Listening to Heart I thought ABBA only had one song, Mama Mia!

Heart's 'variety' of music could be listed on the back of a postage stamp

You know from reading this website you could be fooled into thinking that Heart is the only radio station around. I was really suprised to find that there are other stations in every area. Some actually sound quite different to Heart. Perhaps some people would enjoy listening to those a lot more.

In some cases the only commerical radio station around

I live in Kent. We have Heart, KM-fm (which sounds a little like heart) and BBC Radio Kent. Radio 1 & 2 not my kind of thing I can pick up BRFM weather depending. There's just not alot of variety. The London stations I can't pick up very well.

I just wish there was more variety. I use to be able to pick up Essex FM. I liked there Best 80's Show In The World, but now sadly that's heart.

Where I am I can pick up Heart Essex, Heart Kent & Londons Heart funny enough.

You also have Radio 2, 3, 4 & 5live. On DAB 6 Music plus a load of other stations.

I live in one of the most remote parts of the country with no local BBC at all and only 1 ILR that sounds like most others. I find my listening needs are more than catered for thanks to the BBC.

I can understand that some don't like Heart but there are other choices. The great thing about radio in this country is that most people have their taste catered for, weather it's news & sport, classical music, Boom boom new music that just sounds like noise or middle of the road.

You're not listening properly.

Heart play many more Abba tracks than just Mamma Mia - but don't let the facts spoil your rant.

There is practically no high end at all.
Anyone noticed this?

As yet, does anyone know what (if any) coverage is planned for the Royal Wedding?

Or is it xxxx xxxx with More Music Variety? And the normal 'enhanced' news? Actually being a holiday is it an enhanced news day?

No. There are only four local hours on Bank Hol's on Heart East Anglia, I suspect it is the same for the other "regionals". The 4 hours are 8am-12pm

I noticed on Good Friday Toby starts at 8am -12noon on London Heart, just like the other stations who have there own Local DJ's like Heart Sussex and Surrey with Tony Shepherd. Then Nick Snaith from 12noon which will be National and also Matt Wilkinson who listed on all heart stations from 4pm doing drivetime....

Seems during Bank Holidays Heart does Local output from 8am - 12 Noon....

Bank Holiday Monday - The same sort of output but. Chris Skinner from 5-8am, but London has Matt Wilkinson starting at 9am- 12 noon, with Nick Snaith from Noon which will be nationsl, and with Steve Denyer from 4pm on Drivetime on all Heart Stations.

I know I'm pin pointing a couple Heart stations, but it does seem rather confusing. Does Heart go National from Midday instead of 1pm during Bank Holidays, and a National drivetime show?

Like in previous years Bank Holidays are regarded as a weekend so there is only a requirement for four hours.

So is Drivetime national during Bank Holiday as Matt Wilkinson is listed on all Heart Stations for Good Friday?

Is there a reason why Heart keep cutting off the end of certain songs like Mr Mister - Broken Wings, then play the jingle " With More Music Variety This Is heart" or London Heart"

That's usually the case.

That's the national DAB version you're listening to I think, which is now heard in the (Great) East Midlands since 106 stopped. The adverts are masked by music poisitioners or music.

Listening to Heart Sussex Drivetime, and it seems that they are now giving out minimal travel news.

They used to have travel news every 20 minutes between 4pm and 7pm, but for the last few weeks I have noticed that that has been no travel news between 6pm and 7pm; and then last hour we had the 1700, 1735 and then 1800 travel bulletins.

It seems that they are perhaps winding down the amount of travel news, so that people won't notice it gone when the inevitable Heart Drivetime networking is introduced, in the future.

It's school holidays and many people have taken the whole week off because of the two bank holiday weekends, so the roads are very quiet everywhere.

When everyone is back at work next week they may put them back to normal. From a commercial point of view it doesn't make a lot of sense to drop all local travel bulletins and risk losing a section of the drive audience to Juice 107.2 & BBC Sussex.

True, but in the case of that TSA which takes in both Gatwick Airport and Brighton - two areas which, by design, will be busier during school holidays, it is an odd move.

Let's be brutally honest here, the travel exists on Heart (and many other stations) for one reason and one reason only. It can attract sponsorship and earn the company money. Since becoming Heart Sussex and Surrey, the travel news they do carry is hardly a service. I've heard 8.20am bulletins covering one item on the M23, lasting barely 20 seconds - in other words nothing at all in Sussex - a county 80 miles from East to West!

Not that I have a problem with that - if I was stuck in the car and wanted up to date travel, I wouldn't choose Heart anyway. I would of course retune for the feel good tunes once I was through the jam!

This is where OFCOM have dropped a major bollock in my opinion.

Stations that have opted to merge should have been made, as a concession, to provide split news and split travel on every single license.

I'm not bothered that much about fully-networking stations. However, I do have a MASSIVE issue with the news bulletins and travel reports being similarly merged. It simply shouldn't be allowed. At all. Every individual license should do it's own "informationals." End of.

I live in Crawley. Now, following that logic, if it's a bit heavy around Gatwick airport, am I bothered about an accident in Brighton? Erm, no.

Back home, is someone on the Melton Road in Leicester giving a monkey's that the A52 in Nottingham is snarled up? Probably not.

Quidem have got it spot on - they've merged Touch Warwick fully with Touch Stratford, get given it its own news and travel. Right move.

Please!!no More Threads About Heart!its Getting As Repetitive As Them!enough!!!!

I agree.

I, and many, have called for a Heart and/or Capital sub-forum but DS seem unwilling to provide one.

I don't know how many Hearts are doing this, but we have a local free newspaper in Bedford the Beds on Sunday, Yesterday was column by Stuart an Natalie. Now with the holidays i don't know when it was written, but they wrote about the best features of last week. Not the week Easter Monday to Royal wedding but the week before. I know that as I was working on my own in our warehouse and heard the dire duo attempting to sound funny.
Any other Heart locals got columns in local papers? And are they more up to date than Bedford one, or like the music, Heart breakfast columns a little behind the times?

Not sure if it has been asked before, but are there any plans to link some of the 'Hearts' with RDS?

At least get the group stations together, ie Heart Plymouth, Heart South Hams, Heart North Devon and Heart Exeter/Torquay.

Driving between Plymouth, Torquay and Exeter is just about covered then by one of the three.