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Background and Format: Heart Thames Valley aims to provide news, showbusiness information, lifestyle and music for Reading, North Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire, available on 97-103 FM, DAB, online and Sky Channel 387. Advertising information can be found: www.heart.co.uk/berkshire/advertise-us/    Programme Maker/Production Company: Global Radio Target Audience: Heart's core audience are aged between 25-44. Circulation: Source: RAJAR for period ending March 2020. (Oxfordshire 142000, Berks & N.Hants 179000) Tips for PRs: Heart's weekday output from 6:00-10:00am, 4:00pm to 7:00pm and weekends from 1:00pm until 5:00pm (Saturday) and 12:00pm until 4:00pm (Sunday) is produced and presented from their local studios, based in Reading. Off-peak programming such as Toby Anstis, Matt Wilkinson, Club Classics, Zoe Hardman, Emma Bunton, Mark Wright, Stephen & Emma, JK & Lucy and The Big Top 40 Show is produced at various studios owned and operated by Heart's parent company, Global Radio Holdings Limited. The Studio can be reached on +44 (0)345 481 0011 The Newsroom can be reached on +44 (0)118 928 8800 Heart 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. 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 stations will join 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 – mak