Heart 106

Radio station


name=Heart 106
airdate= 23 September 1997
frequency=106.0 MHz (FM)
NOW Nottingham (Nottingham),
Block 12C, 128kbit/s (DAB)
NOW Leicester (Leicester),
Block 11B, 128kbit/s (DAB NOW Derbyshire (in Derbyshire from 2008)
Freeview 728
share = 6.4%
share as of = September 2007
share source = [http://www.rajar.co.uk/listening/quarterly_listening.php]
area= East Midlands
format =Contemporary
owner = Global Radio

Heart 106 is a regional radio station broadcasting to the East Midlands. Based in Nottingham on the City link just off the A612 in the Sneinton area of the City centre close to the Radio Nottingham building, it was owned by Chrysalis Group who acquired the station from Capital Radio Group/GCap Media on 5 May 2005 for a cash consideration of £29.5m.

It was launched as Radio 106, with the first programme presented by Dickie Dodd at 6:00 a.m.. A year later, John Myers took control over the station and it was rebranded by then owners Border Radio Holdings into Century.

The station was relaunched as Heart 106 on 29 August 2005. A further, more subtle rebrand was applied in September 2006 which saw the dropping of the frequencies from station names across the Heart network. This is to reflect the move into the digital age and as a result, the station is now referred to on-air simply as ‘Heart’.

It is transmitted from the Copt Oak transmitter close to the M1 north of Leicester in the National Forest.

The station has brought to an end the highly successful Legends Football Phone-In which it inherited from the Century regime. The final show was broadcast on Friday 7th July 2006 and was replaced with Time Tunnel Challenge from Monday 10th July.

Audience

According to RAJAR in the first three months of 2006 the station was listened to by 336,000 people (out of a possible 2,019,000) every week - 17% of all adults living in its coverage area. Each listener listened for an average of 9.3 hours every single week.

Chrysalis Radio Sold

On the 25th June 2007 it was announced that Heart along with its sister stations The Arrow, LBC and Galaxy were to be sold for £170 million to Global Radio UK from the Chrysalis Group. [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/06/25/bcnchrys125.xml Chrysalis sells three radio stations] ]

Presenters

*Sam Pinkham - Heart Breakfast, older brother of television presenter Natalie Pinkham
*Amy Voce - Heart Breakfast
*Matthew Smith - Time Tunnel (Mon-Fri) and Saturday Mornings
*Nick Snaith - Lunchtimes and Saturday Lunchtime (12-4pm)
*Darren Spence - Drivetime
*Matt Wilkinson - Sunday-Thursday Evenings and Saturday Breakfast
*Simon Beale - Heartbreakers
*Paul Hayes - Club Classics and Sunday Lunchtime (12-4pm)
*"'Emma B - Sunday Afternoons
*Donna Alos - Sunday Mornings
*Paul Hollins - Overnight (Monday-Sunday)
*Natalie B - Sunday Breakfast

ee also

* Heart (radio network)
**Heart 106.2 (London)
**100.7 Heart FM (West Midlands)

References

External links

* [http://www.heart106.com Official website]
* [http://www.geocities.com/thehotw/aircheck_UKLeics.htm History of local radio in Leicestershire]
* [http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/copt-oak.asp Copt Oak transmitter]
* [http://www.rajar.co.uk/ RAJAR]