I believe Christmas Day is the Christmas Chart. And the Chart Of The Year on New Years Day. This is how it worked back in 2011. Although, BT40 is rather pointless on Christmas Day the Official Chart will have been out on Friday the 23rd. We were discussing this in the as Big Top 40 thread; http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...175152&page=13

Have Global changed how they treat departing presenters allowing them to say bye rather than just a tweet saying Oh btw X left today.

Very much depends on the circumstance and who it is, if there moving to a competitor then its highly unlikely they will say goodbye. If they have chosen to leave themselves and are doing something other than radio then they will be more likely to get a goodbye show. Its also more likely to get to do you final show if it's your choice to leave, if your sacked theres always the worry you will do a Danny Baker.

I'd have liked this too but am aware of the information below


I understand in particular that she lives/lived in Bristol and eventually found it too far to drive each day. Hopefully she will gain another show closer to home, even if just at weekends.

How did she manage to get to St Agnes before Heart?

Just heard it 🙉 Car crashing stuff!

Assuming you'require on about Victoria pretty certain she lives in Cornwall unless she moved and often tweeted about A30 traffic problems. (Cornwall drive comes from Exeter)

With at least a few local heart presenters are leaving next week is somebody not telling us something?

When do they record news?
Is that why they say from Global?

Even if same news reader, is it bulletin on Smooth, Radio X, Classic, Capital? Curious about this.. Is their a priority list?

Heart regional drive times will end next Friday (23rd) and will return on Jan 3rd

After Christmas;

10:00 to 14:00 Margherita Taylor

14:00 to 18:00 Rich Clarke

18:00 to 22:00 Kat Shoob

22:00 to 01:00 Anna Johnson

Depends on the area - George Painter (sp) pre records news for Heart Somerset/Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucester and once had to do Heart SW when noone was available as well. This is usually done up to half an hour before.

Sam who does the news for the North East does news for Heart and Capital possibly Smooth too, same as the Wales news team

Radio X just do Radio X I think (certainly Sunta and Dom anyways) but the other news readers might do more than 1 station

I believe they say from Global's newsroom so they can make a name for themselves, like when the BBC start their bulletins on Radio 1/2 etc with 'BBC News'.

The news is pre-recorded as at non-peak times the LBC reader will cover Classic FM, Smooth & Heart. And also, a lot of local newsreaders cover other stations. For example in the afternoon the Solent newsreader also covers Thames Valley.

Just confirm

Thanks for info.
So glad the UK largest commercial operator is comitted to quality news service. (Hope my sarcasm has not come through).

Haha yep! Totally agree, pathetic 1 minute news to keep OFCOM happy!

Christmas eve locals are swapping from the afternoon to morning (6 am to 10 am)

Christmas day locals are also swapping from the afternoon to morning (6 am to 10 am)

1am to 6am - James Stewart

6am to 10am - Local breakfast (Roberto in London)

10 am 1pm - Stephen Mulhern and Emma Willis

1pm to 4pm - Christmas Lunch with JK & Lucy

4pm to 7pm - The Vodafone Big Top 40

7pm to 10pm - Jason Donovan's Christmas Party

10pm to 1am - Lucy Ellis

The official chart is always out 2 days earlier though so it's always pointless in that regard.

Already posted no need to post again

Annaliese Dayes (who?) is on on Heart Fri 30th January 10pm

A quick Google search would have showed you she is a "model/presenter"

It is good that they are bringing in some new blood. It has started to sound a little stale lately

She did a test run back at beginning of November. She was on Britains next top model. Just another one of them fame hungry people who will work on any job as long as its in the media 🙄 Desperate.

Was she a random Heart Kent presenter?

Just remember the word quality should not be used in conjunction with Global, particularly Heart.

Jump the necessary hurdles, most of which are so low now as to be non-existent, and bang on about the number of listeners you've got.

Success at Global is quantity NOT QUALITY.

I think she was a presenter beforehand, looks like she has a background in some London radio stations and got down to the final few in the Kiss's chosen one thing a few years back, before she did some modelling stuff.

She did well at that too.
Good luck to her.

I can probably shed some light on this.

It's a radio station and for some radio geeks (let's face it, we are) that is enough to give us something to be interested in. I see it as the nearest we will get to a national station between r1 and r2 which I have wished for. It may be awful in some people's eyes and amazing in others, but here in Manchester there isn't much else apart from key 103 declining constantly or smooth doing what r2 did up until 15-20 years ago but for the children of the old r2 listeners