Talk:Heart (radio network)

Criticisms section

I've re-worked the criticisms sections, following a series of edits and reverts over the use of term "repetitive playlist" or "extremely repetitive".

I've added an extra citation to the Ofcom broadcast bulletin highlighting the details of the complaint made. The word "extremely" is not used in either the Radio Today reports originally referenced, nor the Ofcom report I've added. Therefore I feel that use of the word "extremely" does fall foul of being "Point of View".

I welcome revisions to my changes that keep a neutral view and improve the article. Philedmondsuk (talk) 16:12, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Jargon

".... in keeping with their softer Hot AC formats compared to the others which are more CHR orientated."

What does that mean?95.149.170.96 (talk) 19:34, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

• Hot AC is Hot Adult Contemporary and CHR is Contemporary Hit Radio. Hughpugh 00:25, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 February 2017

Slogan needs to be changed to 'Turn up the Feel Good!'

http://www.heart.co.uk/ http://www.global.com/radio/heart-fm/ and social media sites. 165.120.103.38 (talk) 22:49, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

It's been done, though I'm not sure what to make of this. I'm tempted to think that you logged in as Paulrowley11 (talk · contribs) to bypass the page protection, particularly as the edits made using that account bear similarities to all of those you made this evening (such as this one). Fancy filing a CheckUser report anyone? This is Paul (talk) 23:13, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

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UK's third Independent Regional Radio station

I take issue with the following sentence:

Heart began broadcasting on 6 September 1994, as 100.7 Heart FM being the UK's third Independent Regional Radio station, five days after Century Radio and Jazz FM North West

There were numerous independent local/regional radio stations in existence by 1994. I suspect this should probably say that it was Birmingham's third local independent radio station, since BRMB had been running for 20 years, and Buzz FM had been on the air since 1990. Any thoughts? This is Paul (talk) 21:03, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

• The above information is correct. 100.7 Heart FM, now Heart West Midlands, was awarded one of the first five regional licences to be offered by the Radio Authority and it was the third of the five to start broadcasting. It was licensed to cover all of the West Midlands area, including the areas covered by Beacon Radio and Mercia FM, as opposed to BRMB which broadcast to just the Birmingham area.Rillington (talk) 06:24, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

  Yes that would make sense actually, thanks for the explanation. And reading the sentence again it does put this into context. Turns out I was slightly wrong anyway, as Heart was Birmingham's fourth commercial station if you include XTRA-AM, which was the mediumwave offshoot of BRMB. This is Paul (talk) 12:48, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Timeline of the Heart Radio Network

There is already an article that this could be consolidated into. Natureium (talk) 14:50, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

No there isn't. Rillington (talk) 14:54, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

I have now added the arrivals and departures of notable presenters as well as other events so there really is no longer any justification for this article to be deleted. Rillington (talk) 22:46, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Simon Beale listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Simon Beale. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 22:54, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Simon Beale is listed as a main presenter for the Heart UK Network - currently presenting overnights Monday to Friday so should be listed as such here.

Here is an external link to his Heart page Simon Beale - Heart UK

Perhaps work is needed to be done to update the presenters list in general. Colinc1000 (talk) 04:31, 21 June 2020 (UTC)