Heart Radio

Come on guys — give heart a break!
So it might not do your street cred much good to have it blaring out with the windows down but I find, in my half an hour drive from work to home it is one of the only stations that I can guarantee actually being able to listen to some music on! Other stations decide to use this peak listening time to presenting mindless babble, when all I want is a few tunes to get me home quicker.
I do agree that the talking on Heart is just as bad if not worse, I tend to just tune into another station in between songs.
The other real good point is that they are a local station, so you get the travel news relevant to you, and during our recent snow crisis I used their website to find out which buses where running and which roads were closed.
I am a fan. If there gave me a t-​shirt — I’d wear it.

I’m not gonna lie, I do like the music played on Heart. Yes, I know it’s cheesy, and yes I know that makes me a looser but it brightens my day.
However the sheer volume of adverts really really annoys me and that is why I refuse to listen to it anymore. And also over the years the presenters seem to get more annoying too. They also seem to have the same play list every day with couple of 80’s tunes to jingle it up a bit so if you tune in at the same time everyday you may start noticing a pattern.

Oh my God. I had to listen to this radio station whenever I was at my old job and I hated it. The worst thing was that I found myself singing along after about a week of listening to the same songs over and over again.
Even worse are the terrible adverts and jingles (more signing along). Even worse… me having these songs and jingle stuck in my head after work and all the way home. Thanks for polluting my mind.

Not my sort of radio station. Those tuning into Heart can expect cheesy DJs making stilted jokes, pop, pop, and more pop, and a depressingly high amount of celebrity news coverage (I never knew there was so much to the world of X Factor and who really needs to know that much about pregnant celebrities?). I don’t know why people like this sort of thing, to be honest, but I suppose it’s not too bad for what it is.
As has already been said, this used to be GWR. I’m not sure what was going on at the meeting but as far as I can tell it’s exactly the same as it was before (‘hmm, viewing numbers are sliding… I know! Let’s not change anything but get a new name, that’ll fool them!). Not a good radio station, I prefer listening to the sound of traffic over this.

Occasionally when I’m driving and a I flick through the stations, it automatically lands on this. I had vaguely wondered what this new station was and it transpires that it’s the new name for GWR. Basically, your opinion of Heart will depend entirely on your opinion of GWR.
So, if you find Bush and Troy (sub-​Chris Moyles breakfast presenters) to be the height of hilarity, think that Cheryl Cole releasing a single on her own is pretty cutting edge, and love local advertisements with shouty actors and singsong jingles to make you remember irrelevant phone numbers, this is the station for you. Heart? Arse more like it.