Heart Breakfast with Wes Venn

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Heart Breakfast with Wes Venn
Developed by Heart
Presented byWes Venn (2008-2010)
Ros Hale (1998-2010)
Trevor Marshall (1991-2006)
Andrew Whyatt-Sames (1998-2008)
Country of originUK
Original language(s) English
No. of episodes10
Production
Producer(s)Stephen Allden
Production location(s)Crownhill, Milton Keynes
Running time4 hours (excluding adverts)
Release
Original network Heart 103.3
Original releaseMonday 5 July 
Friday 16 July 2010
Chronology
Preceded byHeart Breakfast with Wes and Ros
Followed byHeart Breakfast with Stuart and Natalie

Heart Breakfast with Wes Venn was a radio show broadcast 6am to 10am weekdays on Heart's Milton Keynes station, Heart 103.3 (now Heart Home Counties).[ citation needed ] It was hosted by Wes Venn and sponsored by Pilling Renault. Wes now presents the drivetime show on 96.4 Eagle Radio in Surrey and North Hampshire.

Milton Keynes Large town in south central England founded in 1967

Milton Keynes, locally abbreviated to MK, is a large town in Buckinghamshire, England, about 50 miles (80 km) north-west of London. It is the principal settlement of the Borough of Milton Keynes, a unitary authority. At the 2011 Census, its population was almost 230,000; the Office for National Statistics estimates that it will reach 300,000 by 2025. The River Great Ouse forms its northern boundary; a tributary, the River Ouzel meanders through its linear parks and balancing lakes. Approximately 25% of the urban area is parkland or woodland and includes an SSI.

Heart 103.3

Heart Milton Keynes was an Independent Local Radio station for Milton Keynes and North Buckinghamshire. Broadcasting on 103.3FM from the Bow Brickhill transmitter, the station was part of Global Radio's Heart Network. The station's flagship shows were Heart Breakfast with Wes Venn and Heart Drivetime with Lucy Ellis.

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History and overview

From 1998, the breakfast show on Horizon Radio was presented by "The Morning Crew", made-up of Trevor Marshall, Andrew Whyatt-Sames (better-known as "Cueball") and Ros Hale. The show won the GCap Media Breakfast Show of the Year award in 2003 and 2005, and the trio also had a Sunday morning slot on London's Capital FM for a time. When Marshall left in 2006, the show was rebranded as Cueball and Ros at Breakfast and ran for two years. Cueball bowed-out in 2008 in order to pursue a career as a business psychologist, shortly before the Heart rebrand, and was replaced by Wes Venn, who had previously presented the drivetime show. He was subsequently replaced by Joe Rudd; Lucy Ellis fronted Heart Drivetime up until the station's closure. [1] Following Horizon's transition to Heart, the breakfast show was rebranded, this time as Heart Breakfast with Wes and Ros, débuting on Monday 5 January 2009. On Friday 2 July 2010, Ros – the last connection to the Horizon Morning Crew – left the Milton Keynes station. The following Monday, she joined Heart Cambridgeshire to front their new breakfast show, Heart Breakfast with Kev and Ros. The Milton Keynes show was presented exclusively by Wes Venn until the station's merger with Heart stations in Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Dunstable. The final show aired on Friday 16 July 2010. The breakfast show on Heart Home Counties is presented by Stuart Miles and Natalie Besbrode, formerly of Heart Northants.

GCap Media

GCap Media was a British commercial radio company formed from the merger of the Capital Radio Group and GWR Group. The merger was completed in May 2005. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. On 31 March 2008 the company agreed a takeover by Global Radio for £375 million. This was completed on 6 June 2008, and the company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Radio.

London Capital of the United Kingdom

London is the capital of and largest city in England and the United Kingdom, with the largest municipal population in the European Union. Standing on the River Thames in the south-east of England, at the head of its 50-mile (80 km) estuary leading to the North Sea, London has been a major settlement for two millennia. Londinium was founded by the Romans. The City of London, London's ancient core − an area of just 1.12 square miles (2.9 km2) and colloquially known as the Square Mile − retains boundaries that follow closely its medieval limits. The City of Westminster is also an Inner London borough holding city status. Greater London is governed by the Mayor of London and the London Assembly.

Capital (radio network) UK radio network

Capital is a network of eleven independent contemporary hit radio stations in the United Kingdom, broadcasting a mix of local and networked programming. Nine of the stations are owned and operated by Global, while the other two are owned and operated by Communicorp UK under franchise agreements.

The Time Tunnel

In line with the rest of the rest of the Heart network, the Milton Keynes show broadcast The Time Tunnel from 9am to 10am. The idea behind the segment was that the DJs played a number of songs from a certain year, as well as gave out hints, and listeners texted in their guesses at what year the songs all came from. A correct text was selected at random to win Odeon cinema tickets. [2] Since the end of 2009, there were two years per morning: whilst the first was a competition for cinema tickets, the second was just for fun.

Odeon, sometimes stylised as ODEON, is a cinema brand name operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Norway, which along with UCI Cinemas and Nordic Cinema Group is part of the Odeon Cinemas Group subsidiary of AMC Theatres. It uses the famous name of the Odeon cinema circuit first introduced in Britain in 1930.

Weekends

Wes returned for Saturday Breakfast each Saturday morning from 8am to 12pm on Heart, whilst Mikey Faulkner presented the Sunday morning show during the same time slot. On bank holidays, including Christmas Day, Wes and Ros presented the show in its normal format but from 8am to noon.

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References

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