Radio stations lack variety

Heard "less music variety" for a while last night; apparently Spiller's "Groove Jet" is now a classic! This means they have another excuse to play the wretched thing.

grumpyoldwoman

Agreed. I work in a warehouse where they play Mercia (I think that's what its called) all day long and I swear, if I hear flippin "Buttercup" one more time I'm going to loose it!

These radio stations need to be a little less flippant with their 'more variety' claims. That's like showing two fingers to everyone, as we all know that their is very little variety. They shouldn't even be aloud to broadcast. It wouldn't be half as bad if there were other independant stations to listen to, but they are all getting squeezed out by these sterile corporate money making machines that are driving people mad all over the country. It's only a matter of time before we have our first suicide... when some poor soul, trapped working in a factory that only plays the local radio station all day long, will completely lose the ability to live, they probably won't actually commit suicide, I expect that, while they're trying to work (with the radio blah blahhing in their ears) that their heart will just stop beating, or they will just become brain dead, although technically still alive, and therefore still be counted as a listener in the all important listening polls.

I listen to Heart on a regular Basis, They are easily the best and play a fairly broad mix of music. Im never sulky when I listen to heart!

Oops, that was an unintentional typo! Connection went & came back with the comment posted before I'd checked it!

Meant to say "most of them ARE current chart ones"

If Heart is now such a big company you'd think they could afford to but a few more cds. I'd swear they only have about 20 or 30, and most of them a current chart ones they probably got free!

Just to add to a few other comments here
indeed Heart are all over the place, the Horizon station in Milton Keynes is now a Heart station, or "Heart MK" just to distinguish it from other heart stations.
Its all down to cost cutting. "Global Radio" who own the Heart group along with the Galaxy set of stations somehow convinced Ofcom to let them buy these stations, then slowely change there branding to their own "Heart" or "Galaxy" branding, then sack most of the DJ's and production staff with exception of those who broadcast Breakfast and Drive Time.
All the other shows are networked, which means you get the same DJ, playing the same music across ALL the stations. In Hearts case, all 33 "Heart" branded stations.
Imagine the wages saved from sacking off 32 mid morning DJ's and staff, along with another 32 afternoon DJ's and staff.
Its never ending.
There is hardly any proper independant local or regional radio stations left.

Totally argree, have you tried listening to Heart they claim more music variety yet every night the same music at the same time (saves me using a watch). They repeat <this is Heart> the other night 35 times in 30 minute, why do I listen? well we are forced to listen to it at work we are not allowed to take our own cd's in case it offends any one well 'this is Crap' sorry Heart is more offensive.

Listening to radio talk shows is very painful for me these days because a dreadful habit has developed with the way people speak. Even many high profile people are very inarticulate. This is because they keep saying [YOU KNOW]. Don't they listen to themselves speak. It is so annoying to me I want to scream at the radio [No I dont bL--dy know please tell me]. When is somebody going to have the guts to point this out to anyone who has this very bad habit!

Tim, I wish I was in range of your local station. From what you say they sound brilliant!

I think best station for me is CuillinFm from portree. I listen online when I can. They play rock, rock covers so many different genres, folk rock, celtic rock, soft rock, heavy rock, alternative rock, pop rock, So as for the last person saying about REM/Police. I love Runrig, they are a celtic rock band, but when I look in shops it's just classed as rock, as it would be difficult to find a soecific genre for that band. Many artists on myspace etc etc are classed rock/celtic/pop etc etc.CuillinFm play, rock, pop, celtic, funk, powerpop, country, jazz, etc etc ;)

As a ps to my comment below; my local radio station is now "Heart"; and guess what?
They play "more music variety"!
What I want to know is; is that more variety than they used to play before?