Radio stations lack variety

Only listen to Radio 2, 6Music, and occasionally Radio Sussex (I live in Brighton). I wouldn't wipe my bum on Heart FM. Radio 1's nonsense since the death of John Peel. All commercial radio sounds the same, with the same music (heavily rotated), terrible 'DJ's', and same patronising, moronic adverts. Dull, dull, dull zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I don't listen to the radio for the reasons given above and below and for various others. Can't stand it, especially Radio one. Saying you hate radio one in this society is almost a crime, you don't like radio one people say?? No I don't. Dj's talking about themselves and their own lives all day, (There just self centered celebrities). the mention of radio one events coming up which are mentioned all day every day until the event has passed. Even then it's talked about afterwards. How much new music there bringing to the public but they tend to forget about the bands who were they were campaigning last year. Make sense?
The amount of crap chart music played which I only found out recently they have record executives who sit in on their playlist meetings to decide which music is being played. Surely favouritism or maybe a backhander going on there??
There not a station for the people but yet another organisation telling people what they should like, listen to, where they should go and the worst thing is people follow blindly like sheep with low self esteem.

Screw radio one.

My last sentence should read "it's radio without guts" not "with"

BBC local radio in particualr is about as awful as it gets.I don't want to hear any more songs by Queen,Elton John,James Blunt,Hot Chocolate, Dr Hook ,,god the list goes on and on and on and on.Bland doesn't begin to describe the drivel that they churn out.Stop playing the same rubbish over and over and over again.
Alan Partridge was meant o be a spoof,but listen to any of a number of BBC local stations now and it's life imitiating art ,or maybe the art was imitating life.
Bland innocuous DJ's with their lame competitons,subjects for phone ins( " I want to hear from people who have seen a famous celebrity in the street") and the over all lame patter that is an insult to my intelligence.
It's radio with guts run by controillers without balls for a corporation without ideas.

In my opinion the best station in the UK is only on the Internet and satellite.

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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.

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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.