Heart 103 (formerly GWR Radio Bath and GWR FM Bath) was an

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station serving

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Somerset Somerset ( , ), Archaism, archaically Somersetshire ( , , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel, Gloucestershire, and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east ...

, England, broadcasting on 103 MHz FM, on DAB

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and online.

History

In 1986, a Bath ILR licence was awarded by the IBA. GWR Radio Bath first broadcast on 22 May 1987. In its latter years, the station played

Hot adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul ...

, ranging from the early 1980s to the current successful chart hits. The station was rebranded on 23 March 2009 in line with the rebranding by Global Radio of most of the

One Network The One Network was the collective name for thirty-eight regional Independent Local Radio licences operated by GCap Media in the United Kingdom. It was formed from the combination of GWR Group's 'The Mix Network' and Capital Radio Group's 'The ...

. Up until its closure, the station shared some of its programming with

Heart Bristol Heart 96.3 (formerly GWR FM Bristol) was an Independent Local Radio station serving Bristol and surrounding areas and broadcasting on 96.3 MHz in Bristol and Weston-super-Mare. Launched in 1981 as Radio West, it was merged with neighbour ...

. However, for official licensing purposes Heart Bath and Bristol were listed as one station and audience figures from

RAJAR Radio Joint Audience Research Limited (RAJAR; ) was established in 1992 to operate a single audience measurement system for the radio industry in the United Kingdom. RAJAR is jointly owned by the BBC and Radiocentre. RAJAR's predecessor was c ...

are combined with Heart Wiltshire.

Network restructuring

On 21 June 2010, Global Radio announced plans to close Heart Bath and merge the station with

and

Heart Somerset Heart Somerset (formerly Somerset's Orchard FM) was an Independent Local Radio station serving Somerset, England. Originally owned by (and officially remains licensed to) Orchard Media Ltd, the company was purchased by GWR Group in 1999, and su ...

as part of plans to reduce the Heart network of stations from 33 to 16. The new station, '' Heart West Country'', began broadcasting from Bristol on 16 July 2010.Heart slims but strengthens
, RadioToday, 21 June 2010

References

{{Global Radio Mass media in Bath, Somerset Radio stations established in 1987 Radio stations disestablished in 2010

Defunct radio stations in the United Kingdom Radio stations in Somerset

History

Network restructuring

See also

References