Heart Solent

Heart Solent

City	Fareham, (Segensworth)
Broadcast area	South and West Hampshire, South and East Dorset, West Sussex and Isle of Wight
Slogan	More Music Variety
Frequency	96.7, 97.5 & 102.3 MHz 220.352(11C) & 218.64(11B) MHz
First air date	30 July 2010 (Regional)
Format	Adult Contemporary
Audience share	4.9% (December 2012, )
ERP	450W 850W 2kW
Owner	Global Radio
Website	Heart Solent

Heart Solent is a local radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network. It broadcasts to southern and western parts of Hampshire, West Sussex, Dorset and Isle of Wight. The station launched on 30 July 2010 as a result of a merger between Heart Hampshire (formerly Ocean Sound) and Heart Dorset & New Forest (formerly 2CR).

History

Further information: Heart Hampshire and Heart Dorset & New Forest

The regional station originally broadcast as two separate stations - Two Counties Radio (2CR) began broadcasting to East Dorset and West Hampshire in September 1980. Ocean Sound served South Hampshire, West Sussex and Isle of Wight from October 1986 onwards.

At first, Ocean broadcast two distinct services for the east and west of its service area with a further service for the Winchester area launching in December 1987. The West service was relaunched as Power FM (later Capital South Coast) a year later while the north and east services (The Light FM and Ocean Sound) merged in 1992.

Both 2CR and Ocean underwent various ownership changes until its current owners Global Radio rebranded the stations as Heart on 22 June 2009.

On 21 June 2010, Global Radio announced it would merge both stations as part of plans to reduce the Heart network of stations from 33 to 16.^[1] The new station began broadcasting from Segensworth, near Whiteley on Friday 30 July 2010, leading to the closure of studios in Bournemouth.^[2]

Programming

Local programming is produced and broadcast from Heart's Fareham studios from 6-10am and 4-7pm on weekdays, 1-5pm on Saturdays and 12pm-4pm on Sundays. All networked programming originates from Global Radio's London headquarters, including the syndicated Vodafone Big Top 40 on Sunday afternoons.

The station's local presenters are Richard Clarke and Zoe Hanson (Heart Breakfast), Dan Mills (weekday drivetime and Saturday afternoons) and Warren Hayden (Sunday afternoons).

Heart News

Heart Solent broadcasts hourly local news bulletins from 6am-7pm on weekdays and 6am-12pm at weekends. The Fareham newsroom also produces bulletins for Capital South Coast.

National news updates air hourly from Global's London headquarters at all other times.

Availability and transmitters

Analogue (FM)

Transmitter Site	Frequency	Power	RDS Name	PI Code	Area	County
Crabwood Farm	96.7 MHz	450W	Heart___	C365 (C565 Switched)	Winchester, Eastleigh & Southampton	Hampshire
Fort Widley	97.5 MHz	850W	Heart___	C365 (C465 Switched)	Portsmouth, Fareham, Chichester & Isle of Wight	Hampshire & West Sussex
Nine Barrow Down	102.3 MHz	2000W	HEART___	C365 (C665 Switched)	Swanage, Bournemouth & Poole	Dorset

Digital (DAB)

Multiplex Name	Bitrate	Short Label	Long Label	SID
NOW Bournemouth	128kbit/s	Heart	Heart Dorset	C665
NOW South Hampshire	112kbit/s	Heart Hs	Heart Hampshire	C365

References

↑ Global Radio to halve number of local Heart stations, mediaguardian.co.uk, 21 June 2010 Archived 1 January 2011 at WebCite
↑ Heart slims but strengthens, RadioToday, 21 June 2010 Archived 1 January 2011 at WebCite

External links

Heart Radio

Heart

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Related topics	Atlantic FM Gem 106 (Orion Media) Heart Digital Marcher Radio Group The One Network Real Radio List of Global Group stations

Radio stations in Hampshire

Major stations	The Breeze Andover The Breeze Basingstoke The Breeze South & East Hampshire BBC Radio Solent 103.2 Capital FM South Coast Smooth Radio Heart Solent Sam FM South Coast Wave 105

Community radio	Skyline Community Radio (Hedge End) Unity 101 (Southampton) 103.9 Voice FM (Southampton)

Student radio	Echo Radio (Farnborough) Pure FM (Portsmouth) Radio Sonar (Solent) Surge (Southampton)

Online stations	Bizz Radio Basingstoke

DAB multiplexes	NOW South Hampshire NOW Berkshire & North Hampshire

Radio stations in South West England

Bristol & Bath	BCFM Breeze (Bristol) (Bath) BBC Bristol Sam FM Kiss Heart (Bristol) (Bath) Hub Radio Smooth Ujima URB

Cornwall	BBC Radio Cornwall Heart Penwith Radio Pirate FM Radio Scilly Radio St Austell Bay Source fm

Devon	Bay FM Cross Rhythms BBC Devon Radio Exe Fresh FM Heart (Exeter/Torbay) (Plymouth) (North Devon) (South Devon) Hospital Radio Plymouth Palm 105.5 Radio Plymouth Phonic FM Smooth (DAB) Soundart Radio The Voice Xpression FM

Dorset	Abbey AIR Breeze Fire Heart Hot Sam FM Nerve* BBC Solent Wave 105 Wessex FM

Gloucestershire	Breeze Corinium BBC Gloucestershire GLOSS FM Gloucester FM Heart Smooth Sunshine Radio (DAB) Radio Winchcombe

Somerset	Breeze (North) (Mid & West) (South) (East) Heart Portishead Radio BBC Somerset Somer Valley FM Tone FM Worthy FM

Wiltshire	Breeze FromeFM Heart Sam FM Smooth Spire FM Swindon 105.5 BBC Wiltshire

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Coordinates: 50°51′15.47″N 1°11′18.29″W / 50.8542972°N 1.1884139°W / 50.8542972; -1.1884139

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