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I have just sent them the following comment after listening to their two morning hosts whilst channel hopping this morning:
I'd just like to know exactly how old your average demographic is. As having had the misfortune to listen to the two idiots hosting the breakfast show I've come to the conclusion that you expect no-one over the age of 14 to listen to your station.
I've only managed to catch the pair of them talking utter bilge twice in the last week, but both times I was left cringing more than I did whilst watching David Brent do his improvised dance on The Office.
Whoever writes their material should actually listen to it and realise what a waste it is and have a serious think about changing it to something at least mildly stimulating, rather than the kind of playground comedy that most people grow out of before leaving secondary school.
Even my dear Mum whose favourite brand of humour involves little more than someone falling over something in the manner of a staged 'You've been framed' video, who once was a firm lover of Horizon as it was, has since been forced to tune out in the morning to avoid having to endure their painful exchanges.
A cheaper alternative might be to bin the pair of them and simply leave an ipod set to shuffle loaded with the latest copy of the 'Now That's What I Call Music' album and a random smattering of eighties and nineties singles straight from the most requested box of a local wedding DJ.
I'd just like to know exactly how old your average demographic is. As having had the misfortune to listen to the two idiots hosting the breakfast show I've come to the conclusion that you expect no-one over the age of 14 to listen to your station.
I've only managed to catch the pair of them talking utter bilge twice in the last week, but both times I was left cringing more than I did whilst watching David Brent do his improvised dance on The Office.
Whoever writes their material should actually listen to it and realise what a waste it is and have a serious think about changing it to something at least mildly stimulating, rather than the kind of playground comedy that most people grow out of before leaving secondary school.
Even my dear Mum whose favourite brand of humour involves little more than someone falling over something in the manner of a staged 'You've been framed' video, who once was a firm lover of Horizon as it was, has since been forced to tune out in the morning to avoid having to endure their painful exchanges.
A cheaper alternative might be to bin the pair of them and simply leave an ipod set to shuffle loaded with the latest copy of the 'Now That's What I Call Music' album and a random smattering of eighties and nineties singles straight from the most requested box of a local wedding DJ.
Allaloneatron said:
I like being in the different regions and hearing how the names are fitted into the same theme music. The Taunton one is the funniest so far. Three (stupid)names squeezed into a gap thats meant for two. I cant remember what they are though.
In our area they've basically fired everyone from the surrounding regions and got two bellends in to replace them. Not that the previous DJs weren't bellends, they just weren't weapons-grade bellends like these two.I felt compelled to write to Heart a couple of years ago when Ian and Laura were on in the morning. They just spouted childish teenage drivel for about three hours everyday.I also asked why Heart played the same 6 records over and over everyday for about ten months at a time and if they could put the last played record at the bottom of the pile so it didn't get played again for at least 3 hours.Are they still playing "Secret Smile" by Semisonic?????? They use to play a track you hadn't heard for years and then it would be on everyday for months and months ,just driving you mad.Unfortunately,Heart was the only radio station our warehouse radio would pick up clearly for any lenght of time apart from Radio Bristol. It will now pick up Midwest which at least plays music all the way back from the sixties upto all this modern stuff.
Someone from Heart did reply to my Email insisting that it must of been my imagination ref. them playing the same tracks over and over.
Someone from Heart did reply to my Email insisting that it must of been my imagination ref. them playing the same tracks over and over.
I thought that with Heart now being spread over several counties, rather than just true 'local' radio, the quality would improve.
How wrong I was - now it's just the same, endless, repetition of the same old songs.
Friday night is funny - when I go out to get dinner, I can practically recite which songs will be playing because they play the same ones every week at the same time.
Bee Gees, Donna Summer, you can practically set your watch by them.
How wrong I was - now it's just the same, endless, repetition of the same old songs.
Friday night is funny - when I go out to get dinner, I can practically recite which songs will be playing because they play the same ones every week at the same time.
Bee Gees, Donna Summer, you can practically set your watch by them.
It truly is dire. I mostly listen once a week on the garage radio when washing the car at the weekend. Doesn't seem to matter what day or time at the weekend, it's the same songs. When they launched a couple of years back, the first song they played was Greatest Day by Take That. They still play that, all day, every day. Don't even get me started on the 'Time Tunnel'
"Music Variety" my arse - they should be done under Trade Descriptions for that...
"Music Variety" my arse - they should be done under Trade Descriptions for that...
You ain't heard nothing yet. Having worked in the radio industry for 23 years and see it die a little every day, commercial radio has gone so far up a one way street, it now cannot (or will not) afford to pay for any decent programming, so just hangs on to whatever X-Factor type s**t that ITV is currently transmitting and talks about that. If you’re "local" (local as in adverts and even they are only the big companies in your area – Absolute Radio, the company that owns the greater part of commercial radio in the UK, is not interested in Joe café) station escaped being "F(He)arted" these are now being turned into "Capital" stations. i.e. Capital Radio from London, so that means listeners to RAM FM (Derby) and Leicester Sound, to name but two, will now find out that it's raining in Leicester Square. Frankly I don't see why commercial radio doesn't just give up and admit defeat to Spotify...
It really is a shower of s**te
It really is a shower of s**te
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