The Breeze (Portsmouth)
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| Broadcast area | Portsmouth |
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| Frequency | 107.4 MHz |
| First air date | 19 September 1999 |
| Format | Easy Listening |
| Audience share | 3.5% (March 2010, [1]) |
| Owner | Celador Radio |
| Website | The Breeze 107 |
The Breeze is a United Kingdom radio station, broadcasting to the cities of Portsmouth, Southampton and Winchester. The station is operated by Celador and is part of The Breeze network of stations. It is aimed at upmarket 40-59 year olds, playing classic and contemporary easy listening music with a slight female bias.
It broadcasts from Roman Landing in the Kingsway area of Southampton, sharing facilities with sister regional station 106 Jack FM.
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[edit] History
The station (on 107.4 FM) was formerly known as Radio Victory, Victory FM, 107.4 The Quay and Quay Radio. It was controlled through a joint venture between TLRC and Portsmouth F.C., who bought the station outright in September 2009. The earlier joint venture also controlled Spirit FM in Chichester and Isle of Wight Radio, the former being taken over entirely by TLRC and the latter retained by Portsmouth Football Club in August 2009. From that point the station was referred to as Quay Radio instead of 107.4 The Quay to match the website address 'quayradio.com'.[1]
In July 2010 the station was put into administration by their owners, Portsmouth F.C., who were themselves in administration. A few days later Celador bought the station and announced that 107.4 FM would broadcast a new station 'The Breeze 107' from the end of July 2010. The broadcast rights to Portsmouth F.C.'s matches remained with the club, meaning that Pompey matches would no longer be broadcast on 107.4 FM. It was agreed days before the start of the 2010/2011 npower Championship Season that Express FM, a community station for Portsmouth, would now broadcast the commentary for Portsmouth F.C. matches.
At Midday on Friday 30 July 2010 Quay radio bowed out with a speech by presenter Wisey (Chris Wise). The final track then played, Never Forget by Take That.
[edit] Presenters
- David Perry
- Vanessa Elms
- Mark Walker
- Stewart Smith
- Donny Osmond
- Ben Burrell
- Hayley Raymond (Travel News)
- Pippa Head
- Tony Wright
Past Presenters:
- Carl Ralley
- Sam Matterface (now talkSPORT)
- Rich Hurst (now Wyvern FM)
- Paul Scott (now BBC Radio 5 Live)
- Ben Foster (still covering shows all over the UK and developing his career in the United States)
- Hannah Clarkson
- Natalie Treagust (now with Hampshire Police)
- Paul Owens (Now Time 106.6)
- Philip Hatto (Now Kestrel FM)
- Simon Rose (Now 96.4 Eagle Radio)
- Chris Wise
- Nick David
- Jennie Gow (Now BBC Sport)
- Paul Alland (Now Stage Hypnotist)
- Paddy Range (Now Spirit FM (UK radio station))
- Alex Jones
- John Fielding (aka Matt Rockley, now on 96.4 Eagle Radio as well as reading traffic news on various radio stations)
- Jim Pusey
- Ben Shoveller (now unemployed)
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Coordinates: 50°48′19.04″N 1°4′57.62″W / 50.8052889°N 1.0826722°W
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