Talk:Smooth Radio (2010)

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Differences between Smooth and Jazz FM, prior to the changeover

Arthurvasey (talk) 11:25, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The station I used to listen to called Smooth originally had, for the most part, just back-to-back easy listening music with almost no presenters - they had a guy on doing the breakfast show, but he never spoke much.

The breakfast and drivetime shows featured news on the hour, relevant to the area, regional travel news at quarter past and quarter to the hour and regional sport on the half-hour, with non-stop music in between.

Meanwhile, Jazz FM - which had previously played jazz, as its name implied, started blending it with soul.

Then it was announced that Jazz FM was to become Smooth FM - Jazz FM just started broadcasting as Smooth FM on Smooth's frequency on DAB and Jazz FM's frequency just started to adopt a similar format to Smooth, playing back-to-back unidentifiable muzak with no speech or ads, but news on the hour. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arthurvasey (talk • contribs) 11:24, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the move request was: Article moved, uncontested ~~ GB fan ~~ 06:24, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]


talk) 18:00, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply
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Refdump

In a drive to get this article ready for a potential GA nomination, I have created a refdump of sources relating to Smooth Radio. There is practically everything concerning the network from the radio industry's journal Radio Today which contains lots of useful little information on its history. To save space on this page the list can be found at

talk) 22:51, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply
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image request

Have added a few, but am looking for an image of GMG/Smooth HQ at Salford Quays or London if possible. I'd like to take this to GA in the not too distant future.

talk) 14:37, 8 September 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Audience

Official quarterly audience figures collated by Radio Joint Authority Research Limited (RAJAR) indicate Smooth Radio to have an average weekly audience of just over 3 million listeners. Figures for the third quarter of 2010, released in October of that year showed that collectively, the six regional Smooth stations had reached 3 million on a weekly basis at the time Smooth became a national broadcaster. The figures were for the third quarter of 2010 as the changeover was about to occur, and at the time John Simons, Group Programme Director for GMG Radio expressed his delight: “The scope for Smooth Radio is huge and we’re looking forward to seeing this growth continue as more and more people discover the station across the UK. We firmly believe Smooth has the potential to become the UK’s biggest national commercial station and these figures show it’s heading in the right direction!.”[1]

For Smooth's first three months as a national station during the final quarter of 2010, listeners rose to 3.08 million.[2] The figure remained unchanged in the first quarter of 2011, although listeners in London increased by 29 percent, largely thanks to the arrival of Simon Bates on the breakfast show.[3]

Smooth continued to increase its audience share in the second quarter of 2011, with an average weekly total of 3.2 million,

talkSPORT.[5] Smooth enjoyed an audience of 3.3 million in the final quarter of the year, a figure that made it the second most listened to national commercial radio station in the United Kingdom.[6] 3,317,000 listeners were tuning in during the first quarter of 2012,[7] though that number dropped slightly in the second quarter to 3.2 million.[8]

  1. ^ "GMG: Smooth reaches 3 million". Radio Today. 27 October 2010. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
  2. ^ "GMG: Smooth grows to new high". Radio Today. 3 February 2011. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
  3. ^ "GMG: Bates is London saviour". Radio Today. 11 May. Retrieved 2 October 2012. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ "GMG: Real audience 2.5m for first time". Radio Today. 4 August 2011. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
  5. ^ "GMG: Smooth Radio overtakes talkSPORT". Radio Today. 27 October 2011. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
  6. ^ "GMG: Audience up across the group". Radio Today. 2 February 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
  7. ^ "RAJAR: Steady book for Real and Smooth". Radio Today. 17 May 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
  8. ^ "Around the groups and brands in Q2, 2012". Radio Today. 2 August 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2012.

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From 'Special programmong and events':

On 16 January 2012 Smooth Radio launched a phone-in competition titled the Smooth Secret Songs in which listeners were invited to call in to identify a short excerpt from three songs, winning a cash prize if they could name the tracks correctly. The prize money started at £5,000, with each wrong answer generating a £100 increase until they were guessed correctly. A contestant from Birmingham won £18,000 on 3 February after identifying the songs as Got to Be There by Michael Jackson, Smooth Operator by Sade and On the Radio by Donna Summer.[1] A previous version of the competition requiring contestants to guess one song correctly was separately held by London's 102.2 Smooth FM and Manchester's 100.4 Smooth FM in 2006. A listener to the London station won £118,454 after identifying Diana Ross's My Old Piano, while a contestant in the Northwest picked up £86,500 after correctly guessing the track as Quincy Jones's Razzamatazz.[2][3]

I removed this because commercial stations run lots of promotions and this doesn't seem important enough to warrant mention in the article. Cheers,

Baffle gab1978 (talk) 01:32, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply
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That's fine. I think I may have been expecting the prize to reach quite a significant amount, but it was guessed quite quickly in the end.
talk) 20:36, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Ah I see the point now - if it were a record prize payout I guess it would be significant! :-) Cheers,
Baffle gab1978 (talk) 02:49, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply
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  1. ^ "We have a Secret Songs winner!". Smooth Radio. GMG Radio. 3 February 2012.
  2. ^ "Capital and Smooth FM pay-out". Radio Today. 20 April 2006. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  3. ^ "Smooth FM listener wins 86k". Radio Today. 25 July 2006. Retrieved 26 January 2012.

From header: "Bates has revived some of his popular features from his days at

Baffle gab1978 (talk) 02:49, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Adding removed section as I may need to refs to update the presenters.

talk) 17:51, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply
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Presenter history

Smooth Radio's presenters have become well-known broadcasting personae. Kevin Greening was a presenter on 102.2 Smooth Radio,[1] and had worked for its predecessor, 102.2 Smooth FM. Lynn Parsons joined 102.2 Smooth Radio along with Capital FM's Mike Allen in March 2007.[2][3] Mark Goodier also joined Smooth in London in March 2007 to present his first daily radio programme for a decade, which was networked from September of that year.[4] In September 2012 he announced he would leave Smooth in mid-December to focus on his company, Wise Buddah Productions.[5]

Carlos hosted a show on 105.7 Smooth Radio in Birmingham until joining the national Smooth Radio in 2010.[6] After joining 102.2 Smooth Radio in February 2008,[7] veteran broadcaster Tony Blackburn presented a syndicated weekend breakfast show for Smooth later that year.[8] He left the station in October 2010 to present Pick of the Pops on BBC Radio 2 because the BBC would not allow him to continue working for a rival broadcaster.[9]

Fiona Phillips was signed to present a networked Sunday afternoon show from 23 March 2008,[10] but after disappointing audience figures she was dropped from the schedule a year later.[11] Chris Tarrant joined the station in 2008 and presented a weekly Saturday morning show for several GMG stations to compete with Jonathan Ross's programme on Radio 2.[12] The show aired for twelve months, after which Tarrant's contract with GMG Radio was not renewed.[13]

UTV Media as director of programming.[16] In September 2009 record producer Pete Waterman was signed to present a programme featuring some of his favourite hits from the 1970s and 1980s.[17]

Since GMG launched Smooth as a national station in 2010, Simon Bates left Classic FM after 13 years to join Smooth Radio as its new weekday breakfast presenter from January 2011.[18] Bates revived The Golden Hour and Our Tune, two popular features from his Radio 1 days.[19] David "Kid" Jensen was signed in November 2010 to present an afternoon show from 2011.[20] later confirmed to begin from April.[21]

Pat Sharp was appointed as Tony Blackburn's replacement in January 2011.[22] Emma B joined the network in March 2011 to host a Sunday afternoon show,[23] In January 2012 Graham Torrington joined the station to host his Late Night Love show on Sunday evenings,[24] but the show was axed after three months and replaced by a syndicated programme from the United States presented by Donny Osmond.[25] In October 2012 Smooth announced stand-in presenter David Prever would become a permanent host from December, taking over from Lynn Parsons at weekends, who was confirmed as Mark Goodier's replacement on the weekday mid morning show.[26]

One-off presenters

royal wedding for Smooth on 29 April 2011.[30] The astrologer Russell Grant joined the network to present a one-off programme on 27 August (Bank Holiday Monday) featuring some of his favourite songs from the 1960s.[31]

  1. ^ Young, Kevin (30 December 2007). "Ex-BBC DJ Greening dies aged 44". BBC News. Retrieved 24 January 2009.
  2. ^ "Radio 2 - Presenters - Lynn Parsons". BBC. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  3. ^ "Parsons and Allen join Smooth". Radio Today. 21 March 2007. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  4. ^ Plunkett, John (23 August 2007). "Goodier Smooth show will be networked". Media Guardian. The Guardian. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  5. ^ "Presenter Mark Goodier leaves Smooth Radio". Radio Today. 5 September 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
  6. ^ Reynolds, Gillian (1 October 2010). "New national network makes a Smooth attack on Radio 2". The Telegraph. London: Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  7. ^ "Blackburn back on breakfast". Radio Today. 6 February 2008. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  8. ^ "Tony Blackburn goes national". Radio Today. 3 June 2008. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  9. ^ Plunkett, John (29 September 2010). "Radio 2 tells Tony Blackburn he must quit Smooth Radio show | Media". The Guardian. guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  10. ^ Dowell, Ben (11 March 2008). "GMTV's Fiona Phillips to host Smooth Radio show". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  11. ^ "Fiona Phillips axed by radio station as she fails to pull in new listeners". Mail Online. Dailymail.co.uk. 28 February 2009. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  12. ^ Sweney, Mark (30 June 2008). "Tarrant v Ross: let battle commence". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  13. ^ "Tarrant covers Wright on Radio 2". Radio Today. 1 May 2010. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  14. ^ Blackaby, Anna (29 March 2009). "Business - Business News - Creative industries - Andy Peebles to present Smooth Radio evening show". Birmingham Post. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  15. ^ "Impressive Line-Up for 100.4 Smooth FM". Radio Today. 10 February 2004. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  16. ^ "Terry Underhill to join UTV Media". How-Do. 14 October 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
  17. ^ "Smooth Radio hires Waterman". Radio Today. 4 September 2009. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  18. ^ Sweney, Mark (17 August 2010). "Simon Bates to leave Classic FM for Smooth Radio". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  19. ^ "Smooth start for Simon Bates". Radio Today. 4 January 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  20. ^ "Jensen leaves Gold for Smooth". Radio Today. 11 December 2010. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  21. ^ "Emma B joins Smooth Radio". Radio Today. 14 March 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  22. ^ "Pat Sharp to Join Smooth Radio Line-up". GMG Radio. Guardian Media Group. 12 January 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  23. ^ Laughlin, Andrew (14 March 2011). "Emma B joins Smooth Radio". Digital Spy. {{cite news}}: Text "24 January 2012" ignored (help)
  24. ^ "Torrington takes Late Night Love to Smooth". Radio Today. 1 December 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  25. ^ "Smooth Radio adds Donny Osmond to line-up". Radio Today. 21 March 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
  26. ^ "Parsons replaces Goodier on Smooth Radio". Radio Today. 23 October 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
  27. ^ "Smooth Radio hires Denise Van Outen". Radio Today. 26 May 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  28. ^ "Christmas and New Year Specials". Smooth Radio. Guardian Media Group. December 2011.
  29. ^ "Smooth Radio schedule for Monday 9 April 2012". Smooth Radio. April 2012.
  30. ^ "Bond covers wedding for Smooth". Radio Today. 26 April 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  31. ^ "Russell Grant to host Smooth Radio show". Radio Today. 15 August 2012. Retrieved 16 August 2012.

Possible article split

Plans have been announced this week to take Smooth Radio off the national Digital One multiplex, and to roll out the Smooth Radio brand across the existing Gold network. As this would effectively end Smooth's status as a national radio station, when it happens, I propose to begin a new article covering that topic, perhaps briefly summarising this one then adding any fresh information there. We have articles for previous incarnations of this station, i.e.,

talk) 13:51, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply
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An update on this. Now we have confirmation of the relaunch, I propose to move this article to
talk) 19:50, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply
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