I recently took a trip back Up t’North t’other weekend whilst
listening to FM radio in the car.

All the independent local stations have practically disappeared it’s
either Galaxy, Heart, Smooth, Magic or some other bland semi national
playing more or less the same middle of the road stuff.

Even the pirates in Birmingham were more appealing.

The only one that impressed me was Jack FM in Oxford, which used
automated playout and themed adverts for local businesses.

UKM

On 3 Nov, 10:29, UKMonitor  wrote:
> I recently took a trip back Up t’North t’other weekend whilst
> listening to FM radio in the car.
>
> All the independent local stations have practically disappeared it’s
> either Galaxy, Heart, Smooth, Magic or some other bland semi national
> playing more or less the same middle of the road stuff.

Many heritage ILRs re-branded to Heart over the last year - where have
you been?!

Cheers,
David.

On Nov 3, 10:44 am, "davidrobin...@postmaster.co.uk"
 wrote:
> On 3 Nov, 10:29, UKMonitor  wrote:
>
> > I recently took a trip back Up t’North t’other weekend whilst
> > listening to FM radio in the car.
>
> > All the independent local stations have practically disappeared it’s
> > either Galaxy, Heart, Smooth, Magic or some other bland semi national
> > playing more or less the same middle of the road stuff.
>
> Many heritage ILRs re-branded to Heart over the last year - where have
> you been?!
>
> Cheers,
> David.

On T'Interweb, it's the future of radio.........

UKM

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On 3 Nov, 10:29, UKMonitor  wrote:
> I recently took a trip back Up t’North t’other weekend whilst
> listening to FM radio in the car.
>
> All the independent local stations have practically disappeared it’s
> either Galaxy, Heart, Smooth, Magic or some other bland semi national
> playing more or less the same middle of the road stuff.

Many heritage ILRs re-branded to Heart over the last year - where have
you been?!


It's a real pain, and very sad for the radio listener.

Heart 100.7 from Birmingham used to be quite good, whereas the old Severn 
Sound (now Heart 102.4 Gloucester) is not. My car radio scans all available 
stations in alphabetical order so without reverting to frequency you can't 
work out which Heart it is. The same happens on the run in to London where I 
think I've got Heart 106.2 and find myself with the truly dire Heart 
Berkshire 102.9 (210FM.)

Listened to a fair bit of Radio Jackie when I was in sw London recently and 
was very impressed. So good to hear some individuality left in radio.