Bio

Background and Format: Heart South West is a local radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network. It broadcasts to Devon and Cornwall from studios in Exeter. The station launched on Friday 27 August 2010 under the name Heart Devon, as a result of a merger between Heart Exeter and Heart Torbay (formerly Gemini FM), Heart Plymouth (formerly Plymouth Sound), Heart North Devon (formerly Lantern Radio) and Heart South Devon (formerly South Hams Radio). On Monday 7 May 2012, the station merged again with Atlantic FM in Cornwall, and was renamed Heart South West. Heart South West broadcasts classic and contemporary hits, local and national news and information. The station is broadcast on 97.0 FM & 103.0 FM, DAB Digital Radio and Online. The frequencies according to location are Cornwall - 105.1 & 107.0 FM  North Devon - 96.2 & 97.3 FM  Plymouth - 97.0 & 96.6 FM Exeter/East/Mid Devon - 97.0 & 103.0 FM  Torbay and South Devon - 96.4 FM  South Hams - 100-102 FM Across the South West on DAB   Owner: Global Radio Schedule: Schedule is available here Stats: 395,000 for period ending September 2016 (Source: RAJAR) Ad rates: Ad rates information available here and here Tips for PRs: Heart South West broadcasts locally produced news bulletins hourly between 6:00am and 7:00pm weekdays, and 6:00am and 12:00pm at weekends. In addition to these, news containing nationally produced content, is broadcast hourly at all other times with the exception of during the Big Top 40 Show. Another e-mail for contact is news.cornwall@heart.co.uk  Has 2 different Twitter accounts - www.twitter.com/HeartCornNews and www.twitter.com/HeartDevonNews  Alerts: gorkana consumer alert: Wednesday 25th March 2009 As of this week twelve new stations have joined the Heart network, including GWR Wiltshire, GWR Bristol, GWR Bath, Gemini FM in Torbay and Exeter, Plymouth Sound, Orchard FM, Lantern FM, South Hams Radio, Fox FM in Oxford, Severn Sound and 2-Ten FM in Reading. These stations have joined the other nine Heart stations launched in phase one in early January, including Ipswich, Colchester, Norwich, Dunstable, Bedford, Peterborough, Cambridge, Milton Keynes and Northampton, plus the three original Heart stations in London, West Midlands and East Midlands – making a total of 24 stations in the current network. All the stations produce and present their own local programming between the hours of 6-10am and 1-7pm Monday to Friday and between 8am-midday on a Saturday and Sunday. The news teams at the stations have remained unchanged. gorkana consumer alert: Monday 26th January 2009 Global Radio has announced the second phase of the roll-out of the Heart brand. Twelve new stations will join the Heart network on Monday 23rd March, including GWR Wiltshire, GWR Bristol, GWR Bath, Gemini FM in Torbay and Exeter, Plymouth Sound, Orchard FM, Lantern FM, South Hams Radio, Fox FM in Oxford, Severn Sound and 2-Ten FM in Reading. These stat