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Global Radio faces Heart cuts protest [Article]

  • 11-08-2010 3:29pm
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    Lenny Lovett
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    I wonder how long it takes for all our stations to start amalgamating and pumping out all day syndicated shows??

    From The Guardian:
    Facebook page calls for boycott over breakfast show cut in Bedfordshire as Crawley listeners seek community support

    Listeners unhappy with changes to Global Radio's Heart network of stations have joined forces to protest against the cuts on Facebook.
    Global more than halved the number of its Heart stations in England and Wales in a wide-ranging overhaul that was expected to lead to the loss of about 200 full and part-time posts.
    A listener in Bedfordshire is calling for a boycott after the local Heart station, previously based in Dunstable, was merged with three others to become the Milton Keynes-based Heart Home Counties.
    Jo Dawkins' Facebook page – called Save Gaz and Babs, after the breakfast presenters whose show was dropped in the changes – has attracted nearly 2,500 members.
    "People are outraged that a big company can ride roughshod over our community and the people in it and expect no one to notice," said Dawkins. "I hope that the people at Heart will see that they have made a mistake and reinstate Gaz and Babs. So many people enjoyed the show and they are upset."
    Dawkins is calling on listeners to boycott the station in protest for a week from 23 August to 30 August.
    "Mornings are not the same without Gaz and Babs and afternoons with Richard," said another Heart listener Adam Drury. "I've even thrown away my Heart FM mug!"
    Another Facebook page is campaigning to bring back the Crawley-based Mercury FM, which merged as part of the changes with Heart Sussex in Brighton, as a community radio station. It now has more than 1,000 members.
    "A station run for over 25 years and having had so many famous jocks present over the airwaves should not have been so unceremoniously closed like the way it was," says the Bring Back Mercury FM page.
    "You can't just start up a radio station, and we would never be able to get the 97.5/102.7 frequency back but there must be some way the local community could produce a new station for the gap that the departure of Mercury has left."
    A spokeswoman for Global Radio declined to comment.
    The Heart reorganisation, unveiled in June, cut the number of its local stations from 33 to 15. The changes were made possible after media regulator Ofcom announced newly-relaxed regulations on the output of local radio.
    Speaking at the time, the Global Radio founder and Global Group chief executive Ashley Tabor said: "Although this has meant some brave decisions for our business, these changes considerably strengthen our company by providing listeners with higher quality programming and our customers with a far superior service."
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