What is the obsession with the Freeview one playing that god awful "Just Give Me A Reason" song by Pink virtually every hour plus that little ****** who won X-Factor last year?

Surely limits should be imposed on how often a song should be played?

Exactly what I was saying. Overplaying songs like this means that their music variety is plummeting. Aren't they supposed to play "more music variety" anyway?
I remember that other posters have commented on the variety being as low as 8% once, it then climbed to 14%, but it's now plummeted down to 12%? Seems like a bit more "variety" is needed after all.....

Oh yes that nice person off X Factor can't sing anyway, how that ever got released as the winner's single I don't know. Why do they continue to play it, it's almost a year old!!! That certainly isn't more music variety, nor is it good music!

Therefore, I no longer listen to Heart anymore. A combination of repetitive old songs plus very dodgy segueways has led me to leave. Only yesterday was I listening to Capital on the way back from University, and it was much better

Maybe they need swap with someone who can spell in IT.

I've noticed that during the local opt out of the networked hours, the playlist hasn't got any 80's tracks at all? The London Heart 106.2 still play's 80's songs. Anyone know why this is?

It's due to the format of the radio stations, and the local shows. I don't know what the terms for these are but the local shows are more towards a few more newer songs, whereas the national shows (and the London shows) are more towards the slightly older songs. Maybe the breakfast and drive shows target a slightly (and I say slightly) younger age group?

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong. Hope that helps

I've heard all except London, West Mids and Hampshire (but Dorset is?) are CHR licenced
Heart Cornwall drivetime could though maybe?

Cornwall is also Somerset, South Hams and the three North West/North Wales licences are not CHR licenced.

Surprised Cornwall at drivetime and the old Marcher/Buzz/Coast don't take the AC playlist (the old Champion has its own log with Welsh language) - although I think London and the West Midlands don't follow the exact same log in local hours.

There are 2 different logs for Heart.

London and West Midlands get a slightly older log whereas the locals (the former former One Network stations (under GCap) take a slightly hotter music log with more current songs as per the original licence. Here's an example from Breakfast this morning :

Heart Cambridge
26 Sep - 07:05 Justin Timberlake Mirrors
26 Sep - 07:13 Ellie Goulding Burn
26 Sep - 07:20 Naughty Boy feat. Sam Smith La La La
26 Sep - 07:26 Lady Gaga Bad Romance
26 Sep - 07:35 Avicii Wake Me Up
26 Sep - 07:41 David Guetta feat. Sia Titanium
26 Sep - 07:51 Take That Back For Good
26 Sep - 07:56 Wanted, The Show Me Love (America)
26 Sep - 08:05 Robin Thicke feat. T.I. & P.. Blurred Lines
26 Sep - 08:11 Lawson Juliet
26 Sep - 08:22 Labrinth feat. Emeli Sandé Beneath Your Beautiful
26 Sep - 08:32 Olly Murs Dear Darlin'
26 Sep - 08:38 Carly Rae Jepsen Call Me Maybe
26 Sep - 08:47 Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Wi.. Get Lucky
26 Sep - 08:53 Maroon 5 This Love

Heart London/West Mids
26 Sep - 07:03 Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg California Gurls
26 Sep - 07:08 Justin Timberlake Mirrors
26 Sep - 07:18 Take That Greatest Day
26 Sep - 07:23 Black Box Ride On Time
26 Sep - 07:33 Phil Collins You Can't Hurry Love
26 Sep - 07:37 Jason Mraz I'm Yours
26 Sep - 07:39 Snap! The Power
26 Sep - 07:46 James Blunt Bonfire Heart
26 Sep - 07:52 Michael Jackson Another Part Of Me
26 Sep - 07:55 Kings Of Leon Use Somebody
26 Sep - 08:05 Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Wi.. Get Lucky
26 Sep - 08:11 Deep Blue Something Breakfast At Tiffany's
26 Sep - 08:19 Olly Murs Dance With Me Tonight
26 Sep - 08:24 Jocelyn Brown Somebody Else's Guy
26 Sep - 08:34 John Parr St. Elmo's Fire
26 Sep - 08:39 Bruno Mars When I Was Your Man
26 Sep - 08:49 Haddaway What Is Love
26 Sep - 08:54 Daniel Powter Bad Day

I've also wondered why the North Wales stations don't take the London/West Mids playlist, as the format would allow it.

A few songs are in a different order but effectively it's the same.

It just seems to be songs from 12 months ago + the odd new song if its by a big name e.g Katy Perry. Surely there is a tonne of stuff they can exploit?

Capital is no better...same 40 songs on repeat.

Agree and we can add gold too. It just seems global don't like variety as all their stations have terrible repetitive playlists.

But they're new songs, not the songs that have already been overplayed and killed by local radio.

I'm more into the new stuff anyway that's why I preferred the local drive/breakfast compared to the national Heart shows. Now it's just Capital for me.

Gold are on 12%

http://comparemyradio.com/stations/Gold

Heart are also on 12%
http://comparemyradio.com/stations/Heart_Northants

Hooray, back to 1,000 tracks!

On a sidenote Capital are down on 3%

http://comparemyradio.com/stations/Capital_FM

But at least all of their songs are from the past year - not stuff that has already been bored to death.

The biggest one they seem to kill is "Dont You Worry Child" which is twelve months old. I like fresh stuff but you need a mix of new and old.

I think Global need new management.

I agree here. Ideally there would be a station that does:
1) play new music and a few older hit songs
2) play a few older classics (a la Heart)
3) has very good presenters (some can be boring)
4) always plays as much music as possible whilst still being able to segue songs properly (i.e. in full)

Chances are none of that will happen with current Global management

I'm sure Ashley will be delighted to take on board advice about how to program Heart from a bunch of anoraks who aren't in Heart's target audience.

He must be very concerned about its tiny 7 million audience, and wondering where it's all gone wrong.

Well said!

Dan Mills will be covering Nicola Bonn's shift from 01:00 to 06:00 on Sunday morning

I think its about time Nick Snaith and Jenny Francis got a week or so off Jenny hasn't been off since she joined heart as far as I know and Nick has only had one day off on holiday in ages

They must get awfully bored though, playing the same music all the time and reading out the same links , not being able to have a personality on air?!

You're right there...

"And coming up we have more music variety from... <insert overplayed song here> on Heart."

They're drumming out One Republic a lot recently. And playing it in full

JK and Lucy are off this Saturday so Ed and Rachel from Heart Midlands will be covering the show

Stephen and Emma aren't live on a Sunday morning, then.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...9356254&type=1

The screen in that image, posted this morning, shows the time as 5:08 and looks to me like the date is Thursday 28th September?

How come the Public File only states Friday evenings 7-9pm and Saturday afternoons 5-9pm as pre recorded? http://www.heart.co.uk/london/public-file/london/

James Arthur is played because Impossiable has sold over 2.5 MILLION copies! Making it the 2nd biggest selling X factor song. So there's you're answer! Get in touch with the public.