Heart Cambridgeshire

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Heart Cambridgeshire
City of license Peterborough
Broadcast area Cambridgeshire
Branding This is Cambridgeshire's Heart
Slogan More Music Variety
Frequency 97.4, 102.7 & 103 MHz and DAB
Format Adult Contemporary
Audience share 10.7% (December 2012, )
Owner Global Radio
Website Heart Cambridgeshire

Heart Cambridgeshire is an radio station broadcasting to Cambridgeshire from studios in Cambridge. The station began broadcasting on 2 July 2010 as a result of a merger between Heart Peterborough (formerly Hereward FM) and Heart Cambridge (formerly Q103). It is owned and operated by Global Radio,

History

The regional station originally broadcast as two separate stations - Hereward Radio began broadcasting in July 1980 and Q103 served the Cambridge and Newmarket areas since February 1989.

By 1995, both stations had been sold off to the GWR Group. Ten years later, the owners merged with Capital Radio to form GCap Media (later Global Radio). The stations were among the first outside London and the Midlands to be rebranded as Heart in 2009.

On 21 June 2010, Global Radio announced it would merge the two stations as part of plans to reduce the Heart network of stations from 33 to 18.[1] The new station began broadcasting from Peterborough on Friday 2 July 2010, leading to the closure of studios in Cambridge.[2] On 19 September 2011, the station announced it would leave its Peterborough base and relocate to new studios in the Histon area of Cambridge.[3]

Programming and presenters

Local presenters

  • Jay–Louise Knight (Saturday and Sunday afternoons)
  • Kev Lawrence (Heart Breakfast)

  • Chris Skinner (Monday – Friday drivetime)
  • Ros Webb (Heart Breakfast)
  • Paul Hollins (Cover Presenter)

Networked presenters

  • Toby Anstis (Monday – Saturday mornings)
  • Simon Beale (The Late Show on Sunday – Thursday nights)
  • Emma Bunton (Saturday drivetime)
  • Nicola Bonn (All 80s All Night Saturday and Sunday mornings from 1am-6am)
  • Steve Denyer (Club Classics on Saturday evening)
  • Jason Donovan (Currently not presenting. Will be presenting later this year)
  • Lucy Horobin (Saturday breakfast)

  • Ben Jones (All 80s... All Night on Monday – Friday overnights)
  • Jason King (Saturday breakfast)
  • Stephen Mulhern (Sunday breakfast)
  • Jenni Falconer (Early Sunday breakfast 6am-8am)
  • Nick Snaith (Monday – Friday afternoons)
  • Neil 'Roberto' Williams (Sunday – Friday evenings)
  • Emma Willis (Sunday breakfast)
  • Matt Wilkinson (Mon-Fri Early breakfast)

Syndicated presenters

News staff

Editor
Tom Horn

Broadcast Journalist
Julia Greenaway

References

  1. Global Radio to halve number of local Heart stations, mediaguardian.co.uk, 21 June 2010 Archived 1 January 2011 at WebCite
  2. Heart slims but strengthens, RadioToday, 21 June 2010 Archived 1 January 2011 at WebCite
  3. Heart Cambridgeshire to leave Peterborough, RadioToday, 19 September 2011

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