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Global has closed Smooth Extra & Heart extra and replaced them with Smooth UK & Heart UK respectively.

Heart is playing a new game over the next few months which will see one listener win a million pounds.

Jenni Falconer joining Smooth Radio to present the breakfast show in London and nationwide on Smooth Extra after leaving Heart last year.

Jenni Falconer is stepping down from weekday early breakfast on Heart making way for James Stewart as part of a number of schedule changes at the station.

Heart weekend presenter Rochelle Humes is taking a break from the station to concentrate on television work.

Heart extra will be playing non-stop Christmas songs for the next two months as it transforms into Heart extra Xmas.

Former Miss Scotland and STV presenter Jennifer Reoch is joining Heart Scotland to co-host Drive with Des Clarke.

Ofcom has decided not to investigate Heart staying within its format after seven complaints were received.

Mark Wright is back in the UK and is returning to Global to host a weekend show on Heart from July 6th.

Heart Dance, a new service from Global, is launching on DAB digital radio across the UK this Friday 21st June.

Heart has updated its station sound with new jingles and imaging from ReelWorld.

Josh Lovatt, producer from the Heart Breakfast show with Kev & Ros in Cambridge, has a new job at Star Radio Cambridgeshire.

Listeners to Bob FM are getting the expected Heart is Coming audio imaging ahead of the station changing names on Friday.

This week Stuart Clarkson chats to Russ Williams about everything from Chris Evans’ RAJARs to Virgin Radio in the 90s, leaving Smooth and his latest work for talkSPORT and back …

Global has announced who will present each of the regional Heart drivetime shows when the station starts a networked breakfast show on June 3rd.

Presenters at a number of Heart stations are starting to tell listeners they are leaving their radio shows at the end of May.

Global has signed TalkTalk to sponsor Heart Breakfast – which will be the largest show in commercial radio when it launches nationally on June 3rd.

RadioToday’s Stuart Clarkson and Roy Martin talk through the big stories of the week, including the announcement of the new national breakfast show team for Heart featuring Amanda Holden.

Heart’s new national breakfast show will be presented by Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden when it starts on June 3rd.

Global has put its headquarters in Portslade near Brighton on the market after announcing the closure of this another 10 other sites.

Bob FM has been bought by Communicorp and will be rebranded as Heart Hertfordshire, merging with its existing station covering Watford.

Former Capital and Kiss presenter Pandora Christie is joining Heart to host the weekday mid-morning show and Saturday night Club Classics.

Heart’s mid-morning presenter Toby Anstis is stepping down from a daily radio show on the network after 16 years.

Five Capital and Heart stations in Wales will need to provide their own Drivetime programmes going forward, despite Ofcom creating an “Approved Area” for the entire nation.

Global will broadcast national breakfast shows on the Capital, Heart and Smooth network by the end of this year.

Global has dropped an advert for an unpaid internship opportunity and says there is an ongoing review of such positions at the UK’s biggest commercial radio company.

Ofcom says it is ‘minded to approve’ a request by Global Radio to change the ‘approved areas’ under the updated localness guidelines.

Kelly Brook has joined Global full-time to take over as a co-host with Jason King on London’s Heart.

Emma Bunton took time out of her Heart breakfast show to chat to Chris Evans on BBC Radio 2 on Wednesday morning.

Created by Wavemaker, this latest part of the campaign will involve three weeks of activity on LBC and Heart starting this week.