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Breakfast''
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Global Radio also own Radio X (rock music, like American ClassicRock stations), (alternative music), Smooth Radio (easy listening music) Gold (60s to today), Capital XTRA (urban/dance/hip-hop/[=RnB=]) and Classic FM (classical music).
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Criticism is directed towards the following areas:
* The presenters hardly talk and personality-laden presentation is '''not''' permitted. (many complaints were leveraged at Heart towards Tim Lichfield, Chris Skinner, Lucy Ellis for not being allowed to be "edgy" or even fun, just dry "that was, this is,", "this is Heart... more music variety" links.
* The on-air playlist are too small and repetitive on both stations. (This leads to slogan change for Heart in 13 February 2017 to "Turn Up the Feel-Good" from "More Music Variety" as a listener complained that it was misleading in 2012.)
* Fans wanted '''more''' of Lucy Ellis, Tim Lichfield and Richard Straffon on the network but they did not even get a show networked (on both Heart and Capital)
* The heritage names disappeared (Invicta, Power FM, Red Dragon FM etc.) and listener loyalty sank like a stone. Criticism on social networking abounded, leading to KeepCirculatingTheTapes of old radio airchecks and jingles.
* The websites were found to be clunky and hard-to-use compared to the old First Media Works ones (stationname.fimc.net, aka http://www.yourstation.co.uk), with dull designs.
* The stations didn't sound as good, as, say, the Lincs FM Group, or Jack FM.
* The daytime shows were '''completely voicetracked outside London'''.
* Fans started making their own parody pages of the sites (an Invictus FM site existed for a few weeks on a free web host, but the site owner pulled it for UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} reasons).
* Many jobs were lost - but not due to the economic climate, leading to many people being (not by choice) out of radio.
* [[http://www.heart.co.uk/thamesvalley/on-air/lucy-ellis/ Lucy Ellis]] was considered to be ''the'' MsFanservice of the group. But people were still fed-up that she didn't get enough promotion on a ''national'' scale (and now, incidentally, a campaign to get her on Radio 1 to replace the marmite Fearne Cotton is under way).
* Locality and personality was lost - compare a presenter link from 2002-2006 and a link from now and you will see the difference.
Now, fans hope the good days of radio will return, with personality-laden, American-style, as it was in TheNineties.
According to one radio forum (whose name shall not be mentioned), apparently they want to syndicate their Jamie Theakston & Harriet Scott (Jamie & Harriet) across the Heart network, but fans are not satisfied, to say the least.
* The presenters hardly talk and personality-laden presentation is '''not''' permitted. (many complaints were leveraged at Heart towards Tim Lichfield, Chris Skinner, Lucy Ellis for not being allowed to be "edgy" or even fun, just dry "that was, this is,", "this is Heart... more music variety" links.
* The on-air playlist are too small and repetitive on both stations. (This leads to slogan change for Heart in 13 February 2017 to "Turn Up the Feel-Good" from "More Music Variety" as a listener complained that it was misleading in 2012.)
* Fans wanted '''more''' of Lucy Ellis, Tim Lichfield and Richard Straffon on the network but they did not even get a show networked (on both Heart and Capital)
* The heritage names disappeared (Invicta, Power FM, Red Dragon FM etc.) and listener loyalty sank like a stone. Criticism on social networking abounded, leading to KeepCirculatingTheTapes of old radio airchecks and jingles.
* The websites were found to be clunky and hard-to-use compared to the old First Media Works ones (stationname.fimc.net, aka http://www.yourstation.co.uk), with dull designs.
* The stations didn't sound as good, as, say, the Lincs FM Group, or Jack FM.
* The daytime shows were '''completely voicetracked outside London'''.
* Fans started making their own parody pages of the sites (an Invictus FM site existed for a few weeks on a free web host, but the site owner pulled it for UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} reasons).
* Many jobs were lost - but not due to the economic climate, leading to many people being (not by choice) out of radio.
* [[http://www.heart.co.uk/thamesvalley/on-air/lucy-ellis/ Lucy Ellis]] was considered to be ''the'' MsFanservice of the group. But people were still fed-up that she didn't get enough promotion on a ''national'' scale (and now, incidentally, a campaign to get her on Radio 1 to replace the marmite Fearne Cotton is under way).
* Locality and personality was lost - compare a presenter link from 2002-2006 and a link from now and you will see the difference.
Now, fans hope the good days of radio will return, with personality-laden, American-style, as it was in TheNineties.
According to one radio forum (whose name shall not be mentioned), apparently they want to syndicate their Jamie Theakston & Harriet Scott (Jamie & Harriet) across the Heart network, but fans are not satisfied, to say the least.
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Two main brands exist, Heart - "Turn Up the Feel Good!" as its slogan, and [[DeaderThanDisco disco-lite music]], music, or Capital, known as "The UK's No.1 Hit Music Station", i.e. Music/KatyPerry etc.
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Global Radio also own Radio X (rock music, like American ClassicRock stations), Smooth Radio (easy listening music) Gold (60s to today), Capital XTRA (urban/dance/hip-hop/RnB) (urban/dance/hip-hop/[=RnB=]) and Classic FM (classical music).
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Global Radio are the British equivalent of Creator/ClearChannel. A consolidation of GWR and Capital Radio, Chrysalis bought them out in mid-2008.
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Global Radio are the British equivalent of Creator/ClearChannel. Creator/IHeartMedia. A consolidation of GWR and Capital Radio, Chrysalis [[Creator/ChrysalisRecords Chrysalis]] bought them out in mid-2008.
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They are [[InternetBackdraft disliked on the Internet]], Internet, to say the least.
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According to one radio forum (whose name shall not be mentioned), apparently they want to syndicate their Jamie Theakston & Harriet Scott (Jamie & Harriet) across the Heart network, but fans are [[InternetBackdraft not satisfied, to say the least]].least.
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* 7pm - 9pm Club Classics with Mark Wright (voice-tracked)
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Two main brands exist, Heart - "Turn Up the Feel Good!" as its slogan, and [[DeaderThanDisco disco-lite music]], or Capital, known as "The UK's No.1 Hit Music Station", i.e. KatyPerry Music/KatyPerry etc.
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Global Radio also own Radio X (rock music, like American ClassicRock stations), Smooth Radio (easy listening music) Gold (60s to today), Capital XTRA (urban/dance/hip-hop/RnB) and Classic FM (classical music).
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Two main brands exist, Heart - "More Music Variety" "Turn Up the Feel Good!" as its slogan, and [[DeaderThanDisco disco-lite music]], or Capital, with "hit music", known as "The UK's No.1 Hit Music Station", i.e. KatyPerry etc.
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Sian Welby
* 10pm-1amSimon Beale (Heart Late Show)Kat Shoob
Friday and Saturday
* 7pm - 9pm Club Classics with Mark Wright
* 9pm - 1am Non-Stop Club Classics with Annaliese Dayes
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* 4pm - 7pm Emma Bunton (voice-tracked)
* 7pm - 12am Club Classics
* 2am - 6am Vanessa Elms
* 6am - 8am Matt Wilkinson
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* 12pm - 4pm Nick Snaith
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James Merritt
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* 10am - 1pm Matt Wilkinson
*8am 1pm - 12pm 5pm Local breakfast
*12pm - 4pm Nick Snaith
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* 4pm - 7pm The Big Top 40 show
* 7pm - 10pm Chris Skinner
* 10pm - 1am Simon Beale
* 2am - 6am Vanessa Elms
* 6am - 8am Matt Wilkinson
* 8am - 12pm Local breakfast
* 12pm - 4pm ''Jason Donovan''
* 4pm - 7pm The Big Top 40 show
* 7pm - 10pm Chris Skinner
* 10pm - 1am Simon Beale
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* 12am - 2am Club Classics
* 2am1am - 6am Vanessa Elms
Anna Johnson
* 6am -8am Matt Wilkinson
9am Jenni Falconer
*8am 9am - 12pm Local breakfast
Stephen Mulhern and Emma Willis
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Jason Donovan (''80s Rewind'')
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* 7pm - 11pm Richard Clarke
10pm Capital Evening Show with Jonathan Jacob (aka JJ)
*11pm 10pm - 1am Capital Late Show with Marvin Humes
Friday
* 7pm - 10pm Friday Night Capital with Marvin Humes
* 10pm - 6am Capital Weekender with Ministry of Sound
* 2am - 3amJames Barr
Martin Garrix’s DJ set
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* 6am - 9am Saturday Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp and Vick Hope
* 9am - 12pm Rob Howard
* 12pm - 4pm Local show
* 4pm - 7pm Will Manning
* 7pm - 10pm Saturday Night Capital with JJ
* 10pm - 6am Capital Weekender with Ministry of Sound
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* 6am - 9am Aimee Vivian
* 9am - 12pm The Bassman
* 12pm - 4pm Local show
* 4pm - 7pm The Official Vodafone Big Top 40 with Marvin Humes and Kat Shoob
* 7pm - 10pm Jimmy Hill
* 10pm - 1am JJ
Global Radio also ownXFM Radio X (rock music, like American ClassicRock stations), Gold (60s to today) today), Capital XTRA (urban/dance/hip-hop/RnB) and Classic FM (classical music).
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* 10pm - 6am Capital Weekender with Ministry of Sound
* 2am - 3am
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* 6am - 9am Saturday Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp and Vick Hope
* 9am - 12pm Rob Howard
* 12pm - 4pm Local show
* 4pm - 7pm Will Manning
* 7pm - 10pm Saturday Night Capital with JJ
* 10pm - 6am Capital Weekender with Ministry of Sound
Sunday
* 6am - 9am Aimee Vivian
* 9am - 12pm The Bassman
* 12pm - 4pm Local show
* 4pm - 7pm The Official Vodafone Big Top 40 with Marvin Humes and Kat Shoob
* 7pm - 10pm Jimmy Hill
* 10pm - 1am JJ
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Global Radio are the British equivalent of Creator/ClearChannel. A consolidation of GWR and Capital Radio, Chrysalis bought them out in mid-2008.
They are [[InternetBackdraft disliked on the Internet]], to say the least.
Two main brands exist, Heart - "More Music Variety" as its slogan, and [[DeaderThanDisco disco-lite music]], or Capital, with "hit music", i.e. KatyPerry etc.
Their schedules run as follows:
'''Heart'''
weekdays
* 1am - 4am Club Classics (presenterless)
* 4am - 6am Nicola Bonn
* 6am - 10am ''Heart Breakfast''
* 10am - 1pm TobyAnstis
* 1pm-4pm Nick Snaith
* 4pm-7pm Drivetime
* 7pm - 10pm Simon Dale
* 10pm-1am Simon Beale (Heart Late Show)
Saturday
* 12am - 2am Club Classics
* 2am - 6am Vanessa Elms
* 6am - 8am Matt Wilkinson
* 8am - 12pm Local breakfast
* 12pm - 4pm Nick Snaith
* 4pm - 7pm Emma Bunton (voice-tracked)
* 7pm - 12am Club Classics
Sunday
* 12am - 2am Club Classics
* 2am - 6am Vanessa Elms
* 6am - 8am Matt Wilkinson
* 8am - 12pm Local breakfast
* 12pm - 4pm JasonDonovan
* 4pm - 7pm The Big Top 40 show
* 7pm - 10pm Chris Skinner
* 10pm - 1am Simon Beale
'''Capital'''
Weekdays
* 3am - 6am Will Cozens
* 6am - 10am Local breakfast
* 10am - 1pm Neil Williams (under the [[StageNames name]] of Roberto)
* 1pm - 4pm James Bassam (aka "The Bassman")
* 4pm - 7pm Local Drivetime
* 7pm - 11pm Richard Clarke
* 11pm - 3am James Barr
Global Radio also own XFM (rock music, like American classic rock stations) and Gold (60s to today).
Criticism is directed towards the following areas:
* The presenters hardly talk and personality-laden presentation is '''not''' permitted. (many complaints were leveraged at Heart towards Tim Lichfield, Chris Skinner, Lucy Ellis for not being allowed to be "edgy" or even fun, just dry "that was, this is,", "this is Heart... more music variety" links.
* Fans wanted '''more''' of Lucy Ellis, Tim Lichfield and Richard Straffon on the network but they did not even get a show networked (on both Heart and Capital)
* The heritage names disappeared (Invicta, Power FM, Red Dragon FM etc.) and listener loyalty sank like a stone. Criticism on social networking abounded, leading to KeepCirculatingTheTapes of old radio airchecks and jingles.
* The websites were found to be clunky and hard-to-use compared to the old First Media Works ones (stationname.fimc.net, aka http://www.yourstation.co.uk), with dull designs.
* The stations didn't sound as good, as, say, the Lincs FM Group, or Jack FM.
* The daytime shows were '''completely voicetracked outside London'''.
* Fans started making their own parody pages of the sites (an Invictus FM site existed for a few weeks on a free web host, but the site owner pulled it for UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} reasons).
* Many jobs were lost - but not due to the economic climate, leading to many people being (not by choice) out of radio.
* [[http://www.heart.co.uk/thamesvalley/on-air/lucy-ellis/ Lucy Ellis]] was considered to be ''the'' MsFanservice of the group. But people were still fed-up that she didn't get enough promotion on a ''national'' scale (and now, incidentally, a campaign to get her on Radio 1 to replace the marmite Fearne Cotton is under way).
* Locality and personality was lost - compare a presenter link from 2002-2006 and a link from now and you will see the difference.
Now, fans hope the good days of radio will return, with personality-laden, American-style, as it was in TheNineties.
According to one radio forum (whose name shall not be mentioned), apparently they want to syndicate their Jamie Theakston & Harriet Scott (Jamie & Harriet) across the Heart network, but fans are [[InternetBackdraft not satisfied, to say the least]].
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Global Radio are the British equivalent of Creator/ClearChannel. A consolidation of GWR and Capital Radio, Chrysalis bought them out in mid-2008.
They are [[InternetBackdraft disliked on the Internet]], to say the least.
Two main brands exist, Heart - "More Music Variety" as its slogan, and [[DeaderThanDisco disco-lite music]], or Capital, with "hit music", i.e. KatyPerry etc.
Their schedules run as follows:
'''Heart'''
weekdays
* 1am - 4am Club Classics (presenterless)
* 4am - 6am Nicola Bonn
* 6am - 10am ''Heart Breakfast''
* 10am - 1pm TobyAnstis
* 1pm-4pm Nick Snaith
* 4pm-7pm Drivetime
* 7pm - 10pm Simon Dale
* 10pm-1am Simon Beale (Heart Late Show)
Saturday
* 12am - 2am Club Classics
* 2am - 6am Vanessa Elms
* 6am - 8am Matt Wilkinson
* 8am - 12pm Local breakfast
* 12pm - 4pm Nick Snaith
* 4pm - 7pm Emma Bunton (voice-tracked)
* 7pm - 12am Club Classics
Sunday
* 12am - 2am Club Classics
* 2am - 6am Vanessa Elms
* 6am - 8am Matt Wilkinson
* 8am - 12pm Local breakfast
* 12pm - 4pm JasonDonovan
* 4pm - 7pm The Big Top 40 show
* 7pm - 10pm Chris Skinner
* 10pm - 1am Simon Beale
'''Capital'''
Weekdays
* 3am - 6am Will Cozens
* 6am - 10am Local breakfast
* 10am - 1pm Neil Williams (under the [[StageNames name]] of Roberto)
* 1pm - 4pm James Bassam (aka "The Bassman")
* 4pm - 7pm Local Drivetime
* 7pm - 11pm Richard Clarke
* 11pm - 3am James Barr
Global Radio also own XFM (rock music, like American classic rock stations) and Gold (60s to today).
Criticism is directed towards the following areas:
* The presenters hardly talk and personality-laden presentation is '''not''' permitted. (many complaints were leveraged at Heart towards Tim Lichfield, Chris Skinner, Lucy Ellis for not being allowed to be "edgy" or even fun, just dry "that was, this is,", "this is Heart... more music variety" links.
* Fans wanted '''more''' of Lucy Ellis, Tim Lichfield and Richard Straffon on the network but they did not even get a show networked (on both Heart and Capital)
* The heritage names disappeared (Invicta, Power FM, Red Dragon FM etc.) and listener loyalty sank like a stone. Criticism on social networking abounded, leading to KeepCirculatingTheTapes of old radio airchecks and jingles.
* The websites were found to be clunky and hard-to-use compared to the old First Media Works ones (stationname.fimc.net, aka http://www.yourstation.co.uk), with dull designs.
* The stations didn't sound as good, as, say, the Lincs FM Group, or Jack FM.
* The daytime shows were '''completely voicetracked outside London'''.
* Fans started making their own parody pages of the sites (an Invictus FM site existed for a few weeks on a free web host, but the site owner pulled it for UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} reasons).
* Many jobs were lost - but not due to the economic climate, leading to many people being (not by choice) out of radio.
* [[http://www.heart.co.uk/thamesvalley/on-air/lucy-ellis/ Lucy Ellis]] was considered to be ''the'' MsFanservice of the group. But people were still fed-up that she didn't get enough promotion on a ''national'' scale (and now, incidentally, a campaign to get her on Radio 1 to replace the marmite Fearne Cotton is under way).
* Locality and personality was lost - compare a presenter link from 2002-2006 and a link from now and you will see the difference.
Now, fans hope the good days of radio will return, with personality-laden, American-style, as it was in TheNineties.
According to one radio forum (whose name shall not be mentioned), apparently they want to syndicate their Jamie Theakston & Harriet Scott (Jamie & Harriet) across the Heart network, but fans are [[InternetBackdraft not satisfied, to say the least]].
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