Heart Solent

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Heart Solent
City of license Fareham, (Segensworth)
Broadcast area South and West Hampshire, West Sussex, East Dorset and Isle of Wight
Slogan More Music Variety
Frequency 96.7, 97.5 & 102.3 MHz
220.352(11C) & 218.64(11B) MHz
First air date 30 July 2010 (Regional)
Format Adult Contemporary
Audience share 4.9% (December 2012, )
ERP 450W 850W 2kW
Owner Global Radio
Website Heart Solent

Heart Solent is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to southern and western parts of Hampshire, West Sussex, East Dorset and Isle of Wight. The station began broadcasting on 30 July 2010 as a result of a merger between Heart Hampshire (formerly Ocean Sound) and Heart Dorset & New Forest (formerly 2CR).

History

The regional station originally broadcast as two separate stations - Two Counties Radio (2CR) began broadcasting to East Dorset and West Hampshire in September 1980. Ocean Sound served South Hampshire, West Sussex and Isle of Wight from October 1986 onwards.

At first, Ocean broadcast two distinct services for the east and west of its service area with a further service for the Winchester area launching in December 1987. The West service was relaunched as Power FM (later Capital South Coast) a year later while the north and east services (The Light FM and Ocean Sound) merged in 1992.

Both 2CR and Ocean underwent various ownership changes until its current owners Global Radio rebranded the stations as Heart on 22 June 2009.

On 21 June 2010, Global Radio announced it would merge both stations as part of plans to reduce the Heart network of stations from 33 to 16.[1] The new station began broadcasting from Segensworth in Fareham on Friday 30 July 2010, leading to the closure of studios in Bournemouth.[2]

Presenters

Local Presenters

  • Rich Clarke (Heart Breakfast)
  • Zoe Hanson (Heart Breakfast)

  • Dan Mills (Monday – Friday drivetime)
  • Warren Hayden (Weekend afternoons)

Networked Presenters

  • Toby Anstis (Monday – Saturday mornings)
  • Simon Beale (All 80's... All Night on Monday – Friday overnights)
  • Dan Mills (All 80s... All Night on Saturday – Sunday overnights)
  • Emma Bunton (Saturday drivetime)
  • Steve Denyer (Club Classics on Saturday night)
  • Jenni Falconer (Sunday early breakfast)
  • Jenny Francis (The Late Show on Sunday – Thursday nights)

  • Lucy Horobin (Saturday breakfast)
  • Jason King (Saturday breakfast)
  • Stephen Mulhern (Sunday morning)
  • Nick Snaith (Monday – Friday afternoons)
  • Neil 'Roberto' Williams (Sunday – Thursday evenings, "Club Classics" on Friday night)
  • Emma Willis (Sunday morning)
  • Mark Wright (Club Classics on Friday & Saturday evenings)

Syndicated Presenters

Notable Past Presenters

Michael Underwood

News

Heart broadcasts local news updates on weekdays every 30 minutes between 6am and 9am, and then hourly from 9am to 6pm. At the weekend, local news is broadcast hourly between 8am and 11am. National news updates are broadcast at 7pm weekdays and at 6am, 7am, 12noon, 1pm and 2pm at the weekend.

Editor
Alison Law

Broadcast Journalists
Katie Callaghan
Lorna O'Keefe
Jo Rawlings

Availability and transmitters

Analogue (FM)

Transmitter Site Frequency Power RDS Name PI Code Area
Crabwood Farm 96.7 MHz 450W HEART___ C365 (C565 Switched) Winchester, Eastleigh & Southampton
Fort Widley 97.5 MHz 850W HEART___ C365 (C465 Switched) Portsmouth, Fareham & Isle of Wight
Nine Barrow Down 102.3 MHz 2000W HEART___ C365 (C665 Switched) Swanage, Bournemouth & Poole.

Clicking on the Transmitter name will take you to a page on The Transmission Gallery.

Digital (DAB)

Multiplex Name Bitrate Short Label Long Label Sld
NOW Bournemouth 128kbit/s Heart Heart Dorset C665
NOW South Hampshire 112kbit/s Heart Hs Heart Hampshire C365

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

External links

Coordinates: 50°51′15.47″N 1°11′18.29″W / 50.8542972°N 1.1884139°W / 50.8542972; -1.1884139

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