Heart 103
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Heart 103 was an Independent Local Radio
station broadcasting to Cambridge
on 103.0 MHz and DAB Digital Radio. Heart also broadcast in Newmarket and Haverhill
on 97.4 MHz.
and began life as CNFM (Cambridge and Newmarket FM) in February 1989, before being renamed to Q103 FM, then Cambridge's Q103 in June 1994 when it was acquired by the GWR Group.
In 2004 the name was slightly adjusted to Q103 Cambridge after their launch on DAB Digital Radio. On 1 August 2007, Q103 reverted to their 2004 strapline of "Today's Best Mix", also dropping the "Cambridge" from their name to reflect the newly extended TSA area (covering Haverhill
and the longly served Newmarket on the Cambridgeshire
-Suffolk
border). Q103 also introduced their new jingle package. On Monday 30 June 2008, Q103 along with other One Network stations adopted the strapline More Music Variety, in essence a reversion to the previous strapline.
On 5th January 2009, the station was rebranded as Heart Cambridge.
On 21 June 2010, Global Radio announced plans to close Heart Cambridge and merge the station with Heart Peterborough as part of plans to reduce the Heart network of stations from 33 to 16. The new station, Heart Cambridgeshire began broadcasting from Peterborough on Friday 2 July 2010. On 19 September 2011, the station announced it would relocate to new studios in the Histon area of Cambridge.
Independent Local Radio
Independent Local Radio is the collective name given to commercial radio stations in the United Kingdom. The same name is used for Independent Local Radio in Ireland.-Development of ILR:...
station broadcasting to Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
on 103.0 MHz and DAB Digital Radio. Heart also broadcast in Newmarket and Haverhill
Haverhill, Suffolk
Haverhill is an industrial market town and civil parish in the county of Suffolk, England, next to the borders of Essex and Cambridgeshire. It lies southeast of Cambridge and north of central London...
on 97.4 MHz.
History
The station was originally owned by Mid-Anglia RadioMid-Anglia Radio
Mid-Anglia Radio PLC, was a company that owned radio stations in the Norfolk and Cambridgeshire regions of the UK.The stations they owned were:* Hereward Radio, in Peterborough ....
and began life as CNFM (Cambridge and Newmarket FM) in February 1989, before being renamed to Q103 FM, then Cambridge's Q103 in June 1994 when it was acquired by the GWR Group.
In 2004 the name was slightly adjusted to Q103 Cambridge after their launch on DAB Digital Radio. On 1 August 2007, Q103 reverted to their 2004 strapline of "Today's Best Mix", also dropping the "Cambridge" from their name to reflect the newly extended TSA area (covering Haverhill
Haverhill, Suffolk
Haverhill is an industrial market town and civil parish in the county of Suffolk, England, next to the borders of Essex and Cambridgeshire. It lies southeast of Cambridge and north of central London...
and the longly served Newmarket on the Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...
-Suffolk
Suffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
border). Q103 also introduced their new jingle package. On Monday 30 June 2008, Q103 along with other One Network stations adopted the strapline More Music Variety, in essence a reversion to the previous strapline.
On 5th January 2009, the station was rebranded as Heart Cambridge.
On 21 June 2010, Global Radio announced plans to close Heart Cambridge and merge the station with Heart Peterborough as part of plans to reduce the Heart network of stations from 33 to 16. The new station, Heart Cambridgeshire began broadcasting from Peterborough on Friday 2 July 2010. On 19 September 2011, the station announced it would relocate to new studios in the Histon area of Cambridge.
Past Straplines
- A Better Music Mix for Cambridge
- Today's Better Music Mix
- Cambridge's Music Station
- Today's Best Mix
- More Music, Less Talk
- Today's Best Mix, Today's Best Variety
- The Best Mix of the 80s, 90s and Today
- More Music Variety
- Today's Best Mix
- More Music Variety for Cambridge
- Classic Hits for Cambridge