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(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x419946 September \u2013 100.7 Heart FM begins broadcasting, providing a regional service of soft adult contemporary music to the West Midlands, similar to Smooth Radio today.19951996200529 August \u2013 Heart 106 replaces Century 106 in the East Midlands.2006Simon Beale starts presenting the weeknight late show.2007200828 April \u2013 The Heart stations begin networking off-peak programmes from Heart 106.2 in London. There are now only ten hours of local programming during weekdays and four hours on Saturday and Sunday.20095 January \u2013 Chiltern Radio, Hereward FM, Radio Broadland, Q103, Northants 96, SGR Colchester, SGR Ipswich, and Horizon Radio are all rebranded as Heart after earlier being acquired by Global Radio.[2]23 March \u2013 Fox FM, GWR FM Bath, GWR Bristol, GWR FM Wiltshire, Champion 103, Essex FM, Gemini FM, Severn Sound, Lantern FM, Coast 96.3, Plymouth Sound, Orchard FM, South Hams Radio, Wirral’s Buzz and 2-Ten FM are all rebranded as Heart.May \u2013 Orion Media purchases, among other stations, Heart 106 in the East Midlands from Global Radio.[3] A franchise agreement with Global allows Orion to continue to use the Heart identity and carry networked programming from London.13 June \u2013 Spice Girls singer Emma Bunton joins, and begins hosting a pre-recorded show on Heart in the Saturday afternoon slot 4pm \u2013 7pm.[4]22 June \u2013 Invicta FM, Southern FM, 2CR, Ocean FM and 103.4 Marcher Sound are rebranded as Heart.201020111 January \u2013 Gem 106 replaces Heart East Midlands at midnight \u2013 the first Heart station to cease broadcasting.Jason Donovan joins to present the Sunday morning show.20127 May \u2013  Heart South West replaces Atlantic FM.[7] A separate Drivetime show for Cornwall continues to air as part of Ofcom speech content requirements.5 August \u2013 Emma Willis and Stephen Mulhern join to co-host the Sunday morning show.[8]12 October \u2013 Heart launches a spin-off television channel called Heart TV on Freesat and Sky.[9]Roberto joins to present the weekday evening show.201314 March \u2013 Jenni Falconer joins to present the Sunday early show. She replaces Jason Donovan who takes a break from the network to tour in the musical Priscilla: Queen of the Desert.[10]23 June \u2013 Simon Beale presents the weeknight late show for the final time. He moves to the overnight show, which until May 2014, features an all-80s music playlist.Following the closure of all-but one of the regional digital multiplexes, Heart Digital is wound down.201420 January \u2013 Global Radio is found to be in breach of their license remit for Heart South West in Cornwall after a listener complained to Ofcom that there was not enough local news and speech to make it a fully local station.[11]6 May \u20132015201629 February \u2013 Heart Extra begins broadcasting.12 November\u201327 December \u2013 Heart Extra is rebranded as \u2018\u2019Heart Extra Xmas\u2019\u2019. This is repeated in 2017 and 2018.201716 January \u2013 Sian Welby replaces Roberto as host of the weekday evening show.[14]14 February \u2013 Heart replaces its “more music variety” slogan, which it had used since 1996, with “turn up the feel good”. The jingle “this is Heart”, used for many years beforehand, still remains to this day. Prior to this, the station used this slogan during Heart’s Happy Hour (an hour of non-stop feel good club classics), which aired on weekdays at 11am with Toby Anstis and 2pm with Matt Wilkinson.14 March \u2013 Heart 80s begins broadcasting and replaces Heart Extra on free-to-air satellite.2018January \u2013 Heart removes music from the 1970s & 1980s from its FM output, probably due to new and upcoming music or the popularity of the sister stations Heart 70s & Heart 80s. Heart would now only play music from that era for competitions and events, such as Christmas. Heart’s Club Classics began airing for three hours on Friday & Saturday evenings only, rather than one to two hours every evening except Sunday like it did previously.13\u201314 January \u2013 Heart makes changes to its weekend schedule. Lilah Parsons takes over the weekend late show, Rochelle Humes joins to present the Saturday afternoon programme and Emma Bunton takes over the Sunday evening show from Jason Donovan.[15]5 March \u2013 Cumbrian station The Bay is relaunched as Heart North Lancashire & Cumbria[16] following Global’s purchase of the station from CN Group.[17]5 July \u2013 It is announced that Ellie Taylor and Anna Whitehouse will present a new talk show on Heart on Sunday nights from 10pm\u20131am.[18]11 October \u2013 After six years on air, Heart TV ceased broadcasting.201926 February \u2013 Global announces plans to replace the regional breakfast shows on Capital, Heart and Smooth with a single national breakfast show for each network. Heart’s new breakfast show will launch later in the year. The number of regional drivetime shows will also be reduced.[19]22 March \u2013 Annaliese Dayes leaves8 April \u2013 Pandora Christie joins to replace Toby Anstis as presenter of the mid-morning show and host Saturday Club Classics. Anstis moves to Club Classics on Friday evenings.[20][21]20 May \u2013 Global confirms around 70 local presenters, mostly freelance, will leave the Heart network with the end of local breakfast and weekend output. Seventeen presenters will host the regional Drivetime shows from June.[22]31 May \u2013Ten Heart stations cease local broadcasting and merge into four stations in the east, south, west and north west of England. Across the network, all local Heart Breakfast shows aired their final programmes.BOB fm ceases broadcasting, after it was sold to Communicorp, and merges with Heart Hertfordshire to form a single countywide station.3 June \u2013   Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden launches, replacing the local Heart Breakfast shows. The number of local and regional Drivetime shows is cut from 23 to ten.[23]21 June \u2013 Another Heart spin-off station, Heart Dance, launches.[24]28 August \u2013 Global launches Heart 90s.[25]30 August \u2013 Global launches Heart 70s.[26]202012 March \u2013 Heart Extra ceases broadcasting at midnight \u2013 it is replaced by a full-time national ‘Heart UK’ feed.[27]2022January \u2013 Heart’s Club Classics extends its on-air hours, now finishing an hour later, at 11pm.20 May \u2013 Heart 00s launches, broadcasting nationally on Digital One.[29]References[edit]^ Thelwell, Emma (25 June 2007). “Chrysalis sells three radio stations”. London: The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 8 May 2008. Retrieved 18 December 2009.^ Plunkett, John (5 January 2009). “Global Radio’s Heart rebrand: what do you think?”. London: Guardian.co.uk. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2010.^ “Midlands radio sale cleared”. Radio Today. 2 July 2009. Archived from the original on 16 August 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2012.^ “Emma Bunton signs to Heart”. Radio Today. 1 June 2009. Archived from the original on 18 December 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2012..^ Plunkett, John (21 June 2010). “Global Radio to halve number of local Heart stations”. The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Archived from the original on 27 June 2010. Retrieved 3 September 2010.^ “Gem to replace Heart East Mids”. Archived from the original on April 27, 2012. Retrieved Mar 2, 2021.^ “Global’s Heart brand arrives in Cornwall”. Radio Today. 8 May 2012. Archived from the original on 12 May 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2012.^ Stephen Mulhern and Emma Willis Archived 2012-08-12 at the Wayback Machine Heart^ “Heart and Capital TV start broadcasting”. Radio Today. 12 October 2012. Archived from the original on 14 October 2012. Retrieved 13 October 2012.^ “Jason Donovan takes a break from Heart”. Radio Today. 14 March 2013. Archived from the original on 18 March 2013. Retrieved 15 March 2013.^ “Global Radio in breach for Heart Cornwall”. Radio Today. 20 January 2014. Archived from the original on 26 January 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2014.^ “Heart arrives in former Real Radio areas”. Radio Today. 6 May 2014. Archived from the original on 9 June 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2014.^ Global confirms Heart expansion details Archived 2014-04-15 at the Wayback Machine, RadioToday, 14 April 2014^ “TV host Sian Welby joins Heart for evenings | RadioToday”. radiotoday.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2017-01-15. Retrieved 2017-01-20.^ “We Have A New Feel Good Weekend Line-Up!”. Archived from the original on 2018-01-10.^ Plans announced for The Bay and Lakeland Radio \u2013 RadioToday Archived 2018-01-08 at the Wayback Machine, Radio Today, 8 January 2018^ “Global purchases The Bay and Lakeland Radio”. BBC News. Radio Today. 20 November 2017. Archived from the original on 20 November 2017. Retrieved 21 November 2017.^ “Ellie Taylor and Anna Whitehouse host Sunday night’s on Heart”. 5 July 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2018.^ “Capital, Heart and Smooth cull local radio shows”. BBC News. BBC. 26 February 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2019.^ “Toby Anstis steps down from Heart Mid Mornings”. Radio Today. 28 March 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2019.^ “Pandora joins Heart”. Heart FM. 2 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.^ Heart Drivetime show presenters announced by Global, Radio Today, 20 May 2019^ Amanda Holden to join Jamie Theakston for Heart UK Breakfast, Radio Today, 29 April 2019^ “Listen to non-stop club classics with Heart Dance”. Heart. Retrieved June 17, 2019.^ “Heart 90s to launch on national DAB digital radio”. Aug 28, 2019. Retrieved Mar 2, 2021.^ “Heart 70s to launch on national DAB digital radio”. Aug 29, 2019. Retrieved Mar 2, 2021.^ Smooth Extra and Heart Extra replaced on Digital One, Radio Today, 12 March 2020^ “Global to drop Heart Nightly News programmes”. 2 March 2021. Retrieved 2 March 2021.^ “Heart 00s launches on DAB with Mike Panteli and Ashley Roberts \u2013 RadioToday”. Radiotoday.co.uk. 20 May 2022. Retrieved 2022-05-20.     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki43\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki43\/timeline-of-the-heart-radio-network\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Timeline of the Heart Radio Network"}}]}]