Goodbye Radio City!

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    Laotian_12_in
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      But some good news – DevonAir is coming back! Let’s hope they have those Alfasound jingles.

      #109814
      Neil Leibowitz
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        “Hits” Radio–just imagine moving the “S” IN FRONT of the “H”…:)

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        Vaughn Stephen Baskin
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          No! Just no.

          #109817
          IainJohnston
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            ” I guess the Scottish stations like Clyde 1 and Forth 1 are safe for now…”

            All skooshing faster and faster downhill here too.

            Forth1 Edinburgh TOH/news-in now “mentions” being “part of the Bauer family of stations”.

            Also, only breakfast now live from Edinburgh, Forth House Forth Street now long gone, all comes
            from a cubbyhole in the delightfully nicknamed “Walnut Whip” new shopping centre,
            with rest of it smart-networked out of Clydebank.
            Very slick “joined-up bits” though – ordinary punter would never know, unless they hop
            quickly between any two over-lapping “local” Bauer stations here.

            And in Fife…
            The Beano’s Kingdom FM introduced some (handful?) new jingles after New Year…for some reason using
            a VERY recognisable 6-note American logo stinger before-and-after just anything with speech, which
            of course doesn’t match the 5-note logo they’ve used for years. And its now so over-played it’ll burn
            out in no time.
            Programming very tightened-up, ad breaks longer but with fast brief spoken station namechecks within the
            breaks c.f. French networked stations – and shades of the old WABC “programming element” insertion perhaps?

            #109818
            IainJohnston
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              PS
              The Radio City sign name is entangled legally with the Listing Building Grading of the Tower…
              https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-67937248

              And Metro Newcastle going is not making the Geordies happy either!
              https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/metro-radio-lose-famous-name-28423039

              #109822
              UKJingles
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                Just have to be thankful those of us over 50 can remember when we had proper LOCAL Radio in the UK…
                Unfortunately Both BBC and Independent LOCAL Radio have been murdered…. 😢

                #109834
                TigerQ105
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                  I feel like this ‘Hits Radio’ branding feels so… Orwellian. It’s giving iHeart’s so-called “Premium Choice” network where there are no local shows, no local personalities, just a bunch of generic low-live voice trackers all over the schedule with a default playlist consisting only of the same 5-10 songs in a row every hour from their “Middle-of-Sodding-Nowhere Honda Studios”

                  Who thought that mega-corporations like Bauer and Global decided they wanted to unify their radio stations into one brand the same way ITV did back in the late 1990s was a good idea anyway? Who approved this just to let go of these heritage brands and slap on some generic Hits Radio brand? This isn’t what a REAL local radio is about nowadays. This doesn’t seem right at all.

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                  TigerQ105
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                    Balls. Now it’s Wave 105’s and Pirate’s turn to become GHR. Seems like Bauer’s evil rebranding plan is almost close to 100% soon.

                    Wave 105 and Pirate FM frequencies to become Greatest Hits Radio

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