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Comedian Andrew Ryan joins Q Radio Breakfast line-up

Cork comedian Andrew Ryan has joined Declan Wilson and Amy McGuckin on the all-new Q Radio Breakfast show. Andy, who is well known for his storytelling, is one of the most in-demand, stand-up acts at comedy clubs across the UK and Ireland...

Publication date: 04.05.2023

Global creates new roles and makes promotions in senior team

Global has promoted some staff and created new roles in its Broadcasting & Content team. Richard Steel has been promoted to Managing Editor of Heart. He moves from being Deputy Managing Editor...

Publication date: 04.05.2023

ARIAS winners are announced – BBC picks up 17 Gold Awards

The annual ARIAS took place last night at London’s Theatre Royal and saw the BBC win 17 Gold out of the 28 awards. BBC Radio 4 picked up Gold for UK station or network of the year and Tony Blackburn was honoured with the Pioneer Award, presented by Greg James...

Publication date: 03.05.2023

Tickets for Capital’s Summertime Ball have sold out

Capital’s Summertime Ball with Barclaycard has sold out after less than a week on sale. Fans rushed to snap up their tickets for the event at Wembley Stadium, where more than 80,000 Capital listeners will be at the show on Sunday 11th June...

Publication date: 02.05.2023

Rebrand for Nation Radio to celebrate Coronation weekend

Nation Radio is rebranding across the forthcoming bank holiday weekend to celebrate the Coronation. The network of stations will be playing the Best of British artists for the duration of CoroNation Radio hosted by Neil Fox, Russ Williams and Greg Burns...

Publication date: 02.05.2023

Careless Whisper voted no.1 song of all time in Smooth Radio poll

A Smooth Radio listener poll has seen Careless Whisper voted the number one song of all time. Smooth’s All Time Top 500, the station’s annual countdown, attracted almost 32,000 votes. The results were played on-air across the Bank Holiday weekend, with the number one...

Publication date: 01.05.2023

Big birthday surprise for Heart listener who wins £1million

Heart listener Margaret Coetzer, who turns 40 today, became Britain’s newest millionaire live on Heart Breakfast this morning. She won the life-changing amount in the live final of Heart’s Make Me A Millionaire...

Publication date: 28.04.2023

First acts revealed for this year’s Capital Summertime Ball 

The first names confirmed for this year’s Capital Summertime Ball were revealed on Capital Breakfast this morning. Capital’s Summertime Ball with Barclaycard will return to London’s Wembley Stadium on Sunday 11 June. Roman Kemp, Chris Stark and Sian Welby announced Jonas Brothers, Lewis Capaldi, Anne-Marie, Sigala, RAYE, Tom Grennan, Jess Glynne, Joel Corry, Mimi Webb and Zara Larsson...

Publication date: 24.04.2023

Fun Kids launches children’s radio drama Badger and the Blitz

Fun Kids is launching a new drama series Badger and the Blitz both on-air and as a podcast. The series is set against the backdrop of children dealing with the Second World War and is based on real events. It’s about a boy’s life and survival in war-torn Britain and a four-legged friend who never loses hope...

Publication date: 19.04.2023

Capital Breakfast’s Roman Kemp caught naked in Costa Rica

On this morning’s Capital Breakfast, host Roman Kemp revealed a holiday mishap that left him panicking when a commando dip took a naked turn! The incident occurred when the DJ was in the middle of the Costa Rican jungle. There are twelve volcanos around Costa Rica and also a lot of thermal rivers – he explained what happened when he got into one of them...

Publication date: 17.04.2023