Are you a Carlos stalker??
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Does Carlos have a stalker? 
. Looks like Dave Lincoln is on through the night!!
Good luck to his new born..
. Looks like Dave Lincoln is on through the night!!Good luck to his new born..
The presenter (who's name escapes me right now) that was on in the early hours today kept on announcing the death of Bin Laden after every song.
This was fair enough. He also kept saying the news at 4am would have a full report. There was no news at 4am (just a silence and then another song)
He carried on like nothing happened, announcing the death every five minutes. If I didn't know better I would have said it was recorded. Strange when they pretend something didn't happen (that obviously did)
This was fair enough. He also kept saying the news at 4am would have a full report. There was no news at 4am (just a silence and then another song)
He carried on like nothing happened, announcing the death every five minutes. If I didn't know better I would have said it was recorded. Strange when they pretend something didn't happen (that obviously did)
Originally Posted by Bingethink:
“Are you a Carlos stalker??”
“Are you a Carlos stalker??”
No Lol , I was very mardy about Carlos when the pregnancy was announced but as someone said I can always unlike and being nasty about someone is petty (My mother is good at this and I know I don't want to follow her example).
Anyway I digress , this was on my twitter feed about 30 minutes ago "Congratulations to @smoothcarlos and wife Claire on the birth of their daughter Martha May."
Hope Claire and Martha are doing well , I know for a fact Carlos will be walking on air right now.
Originally Posted by Chrissy1978uk:
“No Lol , I was very mardy about Carlos when the pregnancy was announced but as someone said I can always unlike and being nasty about someone is petty (My mother is good at this and I know I don't want to follow her example).
Anyway I digress , this was on my twitter feed about 30 minutes ago "Congratulations to @smoothcarlos and wife Claire on the birth of their daughter Martha May."
Hope Claire and Martha are doing well , I know for a fact Carlos will be walking on air right now.”
“No Lol , I was very mardy about Carlos when the pregnancy was announced but as someone said I can always unlike and being nasty about someone is petty (My mother is good at this and I know I don't want to follow her example).
Anyway I digress , this was on my twitter feed about 30 minutes ago "Congratulations to @smoothcarlos and wife Claire on the birth of their daughter Martha May."
Hope Claire and Martha are doing well , I know for a fact Carlos will be walking on air right now.”
The Snowman song!!
Originally Posted by Jimmy Connors:
“The presenter (who's name escapes me right now) that was on in the early hours today kept on announcing the death of Bin Laden after every song.
This was fair enough. He also kept saying the news at 4am would have a full report. There was no news at 4am (just a silence and then another song)
He carried on like nothing happened, announcing the death every five minutes. If I didn't know better I would have said it was recorded. Strange when they pretend something didn't happen (that obviously did)”
“The presenter (who's name escapes me right now) that was on in the early hours today kept on announcing the death of Bin Laden after every song.
This was fair enough. He also kept saying the news at 4am would have a full report. There was no news at 4am (just a silence and then another song)
He carried on like nothing happened, announcing the death every five minutes. If I didn't know better I would have said it was recorded. Strange when they pretend something didn't happen (that obviously did)”
There probably was news at 4am, but not on the frequency you were listening to.
Myguess would be that a technical problem meant it failed to appear & then the silence triggered the emergency backup which played a song.
The presenter wouldn't have known that the 4am news hadn't appeared on the frequency you were listening to, as he could only hear the one where he was (Manchester) and that was probably ok.
The joys of networking!
The same thing happened on Monday afternoon at three whilst listening on Sky. Twp minutes of dead air.
Originally Posted by Bundyman:
“There probably was news at 4am, but not on the frequency you were listening to.
Myguess would be that a technical problem meant it failed to appear & then the silence triggered the emergency backup which played a song.
The presenter wouldn't have known that the 4am news hadn't appeared on the frequency you were listening to, as he could only hear the one where he was (Manchester) and that was probably ok.
The joys of networking!”
“There probably was news at 4am, but not on the frequency you were listening to.
Myguess would be that a technical problem meant it failed to appear & then the silence triggered the emergency backup which played a song.
The presenter wouldn't have known that the 4am news hadn't appeared on the frequency you were listening to, as he could only hear the one where he was (Manchester) and that was probably ok.
The joys of networking!”
Thank you Bundyman.
Make sense how you have explained it. I was listening on DAB. I didn't think to switch over to FM.
Originally Posted by Bundyman:
“There probably was news at 4am, but not on the frequency you were listening to.
Myguess would be that a technical problem meant it failed to appear & then the silence triggered the emergency backup which played a song.
The presenter wouldn't have known that the 4am news hadn't appeared on the frequency you were listening to, as he could only hear the one where he was (Manchester) and that was probably ok.
The joys of networking!”
“There probably was news at 4am, but not on the frequency you were listening to.
Myguess would be that a technical problem meant it failed to appear & then the silence triggered the emergency backup which played a song.
The presenter wouldn't have known that the 4am news hadn't appeared on the frequency you were listening to, as he could only hear the one where he was (Manchester) and that was probably ok.
The joys of networking!”
Sadly, this seems to be quite common.
What I have heard of the station on national DAB seems to suggest that the shows (I think) that come from the London studios in the morning seem to sound pretty slick, then the Manchester based shows seem to have frequent gaps, particularly around the news output along with various other issues (gaps in music, adverts over music, music over music etc...)
Maybe Smooth's listeners should chip together to buy their Manchester studio a DAB radio so they can hear what goes out on the national version of their station rather than the Manchester version?
Who sings the ID name jingles which have been tailed on at the front of the current singing one? Also who is the bloke which says the name of the station and show ID's on some of the jingles?
Now theres a name Denise Van Outen.I think she would be good on smooth will tune in for her more than i would Emma B who sounds like she has a frog in her throat.The one thing thats bugging me is when they say before the news "The home of simon bates at breakfast" I think we know that know but i guess its a smooth selling point.
.The one thing thats bugging me is when they say before the news "The home of simon bates at breakfast" I think we know that know but i guess its a smooth selling point.
She only lasted six months on Capital FM and didn't even make the first airing of OK TV before resigning.
I'm not too sure if she's Smooth's demographic either, probably more suited to Real or Heart, just like Ms B.
I'm not too sure if she's Smooth's demographic either, probably more suited to Real or Heart, just like Ms B.
Originally Posted by suffolkblue:
“Now theres a name Denise Van Outen.I think she would be good on smooth will tune in for her more than i would Emma B who sounds like she has a frog in her throat.The one thing thats bugging me is when they say before the news "The home of simon bates at breakfast" I think we know that know but i guess its a smooth selling point.”
“Now theres a name Denise Van Outen.I think she would be good on smooth will tune in for her more than i would Emma B who sounds like she has a frog in her throat
.The one thing thats bugging me is when they say before the news "The home of simon bates at breakfast" I think we know that know but i guess its a smooth selling point.”
Smooth are advertising Simon Breakfast show on posters too.
A slightly eccentric Golden Hour this morning which included Abba'a Mamma Mia (number one late Jan 1976) and Hot Chocolate's So You Win Again (number one summer 1977). The year - 1975!
Originally Posted by Nick G:
“A slightly eccentric Golden Hour this morning which included Abba'a Mamma Mia (number one late Jan 1976) and Hot Chocolate's So You Win Again (number one summer 1977). The year - 1975!”
“A slightly eccentric Golden Hour this morning which included Abba'a Mamma Mia (number one late Jan 1976) and Hot Chocolate's So You Win Again (number one summer 1977). The year - 1975!”
Mama Mia was definitely 1975 ..13 December 1975 when it 1st entered the UK chart
Hot Chocolate was obviously an error.
Originally Posted by Martin Phillp:
“She only lasted six months on Capital FM and didn't even make the first airing of OK TV before resigning.
I'm not too sure if she's Smooth's demographic either, probably more suited to Real or Heart, just like Ms B.”
“She only lasted six months on Capital FM and didn't even make the first airing of OK TV before resigning.
I'm not too sure if she's Smooth's demographic either, probably more suited to Real or Heart, just like Ms B.”
So once again Smooth decides to go for a blonde female former breakfast tv star for its Sunday afternoon output.
As Denise says herself.this will be her first,solo,radio show.
I wonder if this show will be live or voice tracked.I wonder.
Originally Posted by occy:
“Who sings the ID name jingles which have been tailed on at the front of the current singing one? Also who is the bloke which says the name of the station and show ID's on some of the jingles?”
“Who sings the ID name jingles which have been tailed on at the front of the current singing one? Also who is the bloke which says the name of the station and show ID's on some of the jingles?”
I can't stand Smooth Radio but I do know that the last time I listened the male station voice was Mitch Johnson.
Rick Scott is the male station voice on Real.
Originally Posted by Joey Deacon:
“I can't stand Smooth Radio but I do know that the last time I listened the male station voice was Mitch Johnson.”
“I can't stand Smooth Radio but I do know that the last time I listened the male station voice was Mitch Johnson.”
Ian Brannan was being used on promos and the odd ID last time I listened, so could be him.
Still don't understand why they didn't stick with Sean Bolger from the '07 relaunch - classy and, perhaps more importantly, underused - so the liners stood out.
Hi Tom. You've forced me to have a listen to Smooth now.
Female station voice is the really nice and everything Gina Mellotte.
Male station voice is indeed Mitch Johnson.
Female station voice is the really nice and everything Gina Mellotte.
Male station voice is indeed Mitch Johnson.
Congrats to all at DigitalSpy...you've just had a mention on Simon Bates @ Breakfast on Smooth Radio (DAB UK) at 9.25am this morning...during the first Golden Hour.
Nice of Simon Bates to give us all a mention at Digital Spy during the first half of the golden hour.Good on you Mr bates and a good golden hour too 
Edit we posted at the some time
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Maybe I was lucky with the time I dipped into Smooth Radio this afternoon (1.30-2pm) but the playlisting was more consistent (no random change of tempo) and David Jensen is excellent in that slot.
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