20 Years of Heart 106.2 / Heart London

  • This topic is empty.
Viewing 7 posts - 1 through 7 (of 7 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • September 6, 2015 at 6:36 pm #11033
    Bealey
    Member

      Heart London (106.2) was 20 years old yesterday. From day 1, the station has always had sung jingles, provided by JAM Creative Productions, Music 4, IQ Beats and (currently) Reelworld. As Heart moved from being a local station to a national brand in recent years, it’s identity has remained very strong.
      So here’s 20 years of London’s Heart in less than 5 mins:

      https://soundcloud.com/simonbeale/heart-london-20-years-jingles-montage

      September 6, 2015 at 8:43 pm #98396
      GrahamCollins

        Nice one Simon – hearing them all like this just emphasizes to me how new and fresh the JAM material was at the start. After JAM it just sounds like a disco !

        September 6, 2015 at 9:39 pm #98397
        UKJingles
        Member

          Nice one Simon – hearing them all like this just emphasizes to me how new and fresh the JAM material was at the start. After JAM it just sounds like a disco !

          Couldn’t agree with you more Graham……..
          “This Is Heart”….”This is Gold”….. Just so Bland….. Reminds me of the great Coca Cola vs Pepsi Demo!

          September 6, 2015 at 10:05 pm #98400
          IainJohnston

            Excellent “timeline” montage!

            Is it just my ageing ears, OR are the JAM vocals there on the “air versions” just a little bit smoother than on the JAM demo?

            Meaning…with apologies to JMW etc …on the demo the “Two” of the frequency sounded very “teweooo” – but what I hear on the montage sound more like a proper “twooo”. i.e. no “ewe” !!!

            (Damn good package for its era though – the resings for Discovery FM in Dundee Scotland IMPO sounded even better than the London “originals” due to having a bit more freedom of lyric’ing).

            September 6, 2015 at 11:03 pm #98401
            PK
            Member

              For me also the JAM pack had at its launch was the best. The music policy and general presentation style was also at its best in the early days and for me made it different and at that point a better listen than Capital and others.

              I was actually briefly living in Swindon when Heart 106.2 launched and could hear the station there and listened to its opening live breakfast show.

              In the early days I though Heart 106.2 was probably in how sounded at launch and music policy and with those great JAM jingles, the closest London had to how Dublin’s original pirate version of Radio Nova and its successor Energy 103 both sounded at their peak with their slick very tight presentation and great music between 1980 and 1988 when for most of that time Nova was Number One in Ireland, both of those stations also using great JAM cuts too.

              Heart 106.2 also had ex Radio Nova Dublin jock Liam Quigley on air when it launched too. Plus weren’t a couple of jocks from Chiltern Radio’s Hot FM on early Heart 106.2?

              September 6, 2015 at 11:32 pm #98402
              RobinBlamires

                They’d have jumped at just the right time, seeing as Heart’s launch was one week before GWR’s “transformation” of the Chiltern Network on FM.

                September 7, 2015 at 5:44 pm #98405
                mb
                Member

                  They had a great line up in the first couple of years and I think the JAM package really stood out – especially as at the time its was the only JAM station in London I think.
                  Was certainly an alternative to Capital which had only had sleepy Melody, Choice, LGR (WNK) and Sunrise for competition.

                • Author
                  Posts
                Viewing 7 posts - 1 through 7 (of 7 total)
                • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.