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Background and Format: Heart West aims to provide news, music, showbusiness, lifestyle for Bristol, Bath and Somerset, available on 96.3 FM, 103 and 102.6, DAB Digital and Online.  Advertising information can be found: www.heart.co.uk/bristol/advertise-us/Programme Maker/Production Company:Global RadioTarget audience:Listeners aged 25-44Circulation:Source: RAJAR for period ending March 2020. (Refers to Bristol/Weston & Bath - 212000; Gloucestershire - 115000; Somerset - 107000; Wiltshire, 127000)Ad rates:Advertising information available hereTips for PRs: The station carries pre-recorded output on Friday evenings between 6:00am and 9:00pm, Saturday afternoons between 5:00 and 9:00, Sunday mornings between 6:00am and 12:00pm, and Sunday evenings 7:00am-10:00pm. Heart West Country's weekday output from 6:00-10:00am, 4:00-7:00pm and weekends from 1:00-5:00pm (Saturday) and 12:00-4pm (Sunday) is produced and presented from local studios, based in Bristol. Off-peak programming (such as Toby Anstis, Matt Wilkinson, Club Classics, The Wind Down, Emma Bunton , Mark Wright, Stephen & Emma, JK & Lucy, Jason Donovan and The Big Top 40 Show) is produced at various studios owned and operated by Heart West Country's parent company, Global Radio Holdings Limited. The studio can be reached on +44 (0)345 481 00 88Awards:2008 - Sony Radio Academy Awards, Station of the Year (300,000 to 1 million listeners)Alerts:gorkana consumer alert: Wednesday 25th March 2009As 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 2009Global 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, W