The new show, which launches on Monday 2 September, will bring a different perspective to the current national political commentary and coverage.
The changes will see the mid-morning shows hosted by Naga Munchetty on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Adrian Chiles on Thursdays, extended to three hours, broadcasting from 11am to 2pm.
The popular ‘Must Watch’ feature which was previously part of Nihal Arthanayake’s show will now be heard in Naga’s programme at 1pm on Mondays, while Martin Lewis will join Adrian to offer money saving advice at 1pm on his Thursday show.
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Global have announced the launch of 12 new radio stations.
https://x.com/global/status/1832675237345030359?t=92fJswZA0hbcQthE9CV4JQ&s=19
One of them is still somewhat unknown, but between found stream URLs and X (Twitter) accounts, 11 of them are pretty much locked in:
Capital Anthems
Classic FM Calm
Classic FM Movies
Heart Love
Heart Musicals
Heart 10s
Smooth Soul
Smooth 70s
Smooth 80s
Radio X Chilled
Radio X 90s
Radio X 00s
EDIT: Members of another forum have found streaming URLs which suggest the first list I posted here wasn’t as accurate as first thought. I’ve updated the list which should now hopefully cover all the new stations.
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BBC Radio 1 Anthems is expanding into a standalone Sounds station in November.
Also: Bauer is launching Greatest Hits Radio 60s next week.
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It’s hard to keep up with the news of all the new stations here in the UK this week! Quite how much demand there is for some of them is of course another matter.
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To mark 100 years of BBC Services in Northern Ireland, BBC Radio Ulster/Foyle is celebrating with a day of programmes across the schedule on Sunday 15 September, including a specially recorded concert from St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast.
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Gold has had a refresh with new logo and new imaging, IDoing now as “Gold Radio - All Time Classics”.
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It beats me why one of the operators here like SCA or ARN hasn’t got a true oldies station like this on DAB.
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because no one wants to invest in DAB here. compared to London, DAB here is absolute pathetic. I took my JBL Dab radio to london in 2022 and it was like in the wizard of oz and Dorothy opens the door of the house in oz and its all in color after a period of black and white.
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Back in London now after doing a tour of England, Wales and Scotland.
Yes, DAB and AM/FM seem to be the other way around compared to AUS, with DAB having better reception and more choice than analogue radio.
In every location I stayed, it was rare to get a clean strong AM or FM signal, but DAB was everywhere except in the Scottish Highlands. A rescan was not needed to keep receiving the National stations but on my portable it was required to get the local variations eg BBC Dover.
On AM, 909 was the only station I could get in some locations (though I only had time to scan that a couple of times). Not getting strong FM reception also made it hard to get RDS, particularly at my hotel in the Marble Arch area of London, where they’re a big solid buildings everywhere. I’m hoping to take my TEF to Hyde Park tomorrow away from buildings and see how I go there. But there seem to be fewer AM and FM stations here.
On DAB, I had anything from 86 stations in Exeter (popn 130,000) to 129 in London. Crazy to think Exeter has more stations then Sydney.
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On the point about AM, are you sure you weren’t sometimes in areas where 909 isn’t the best signal for BBC Radio 5 Live. In some areas, 693 is best (or 990 in parts of West & North West Wales)
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I don’t recall getting 693, but then i might not have been in one of those areas when I did an AM scan.
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Of topic, but I sometimes wonder whether the power of Australian FM stations could be reduced especially in crowed markets and that might allow more stations on the band. Do the commercial stations in Sydney really need to be 150 Kw ERP. Do ABC stations in Coffs Harbour or Mt Dowe need to be so strong that they block stations using those frequencies in SEQ?
AFAIK the commercial stations in London are 4Kw ERP (could be wrong though). You also see similar things in some US cities. NYC stations are 6.7 kW etc from Empire State Bldg. Even the large LA market that is difficult to service because of all the canyons etc has KOST on 11.5 Kw, KCBS 27.5 Kw.
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Interesting thought.
I also wonder how London gets away with 0.4 spacing on the FM band for some stations when it’s deemed “impossible” here. E.g. Magic is on 105.4, GHR is on 105.8 and Heart is on 106.2
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Running at 4Kw must surely help. Brisbane has local community stations at the same power! (Logan FM).
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Digital Radio Monidale can solve the Digital Radio Drought in Rural Areas and Small Cities.
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Yes, so I can receive/DX them more easily! 
Australia is a much bigger country than the UK, and much lower DAB usage. I’m a little surprised the London commercials are only 4kw but makes sense given the reception I’m getting.
But then given that DAB usage seems to much better over here, FM is probably only really there for what appears to be a minority of listeners that don’t have DAB or streaming. I also haven’t heard any frequency IDs on any station either.
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Does BBC R2 still ID as “88 to 91 FM”?
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I haven’t listened to R2 for long enough to find out (yet), but I’ll try.
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Thanks, often they used to ID that way right before the news at the top of the hour.
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