Capital FM plays the nice modern stuff that I'm into nowadays, so is a much better choice than Heart FM! For me, radio station choice isn't great, because the stations for Northamptonshire aren't that great if you don't like Heart!
However, my choices...
At home, Capital via either my laptop, DAB Radio or FM radios around the house (Capital Leicestershire is just about receivable in this area).
At university (DMU, Leicester), used to be either Capital Leicestershire or Demon FM, which is DMU's campus radio station. Now it's predominantly Capital, though I am no longer a uni student so won't be going if I don't get a job there (and I've cleared my stuff out).
Travelling by car... Depends on the direction:
Travelling east/northeast (Thrapston or further east, Kimbolton/Stow Longa or further east, Peterborough or further north up to Colsterworth): KISS FM UK.
Travelling north (Kettering or further north, Leicestershire, some parts of West Lincolnshire etc): Capital FM.
Local area: Connect FM (local station for Irchester/Wellingborough/Geddington/Kettering and other areas in East Northamptonshire).
South: KISS FM and Capital FM (from London) become available in southern areas (e.g. south Cambs, Luton/Dunstable, M25 etc).
Anywhere that I haven't mentioned, i.e. most of Lincolnshire, Milton Keynes/Bedfordshire, west of Northampton, Oxfordshire, north/central Buckinghamshire etc) is hopeless unless you want either Heart, Lincs FM (for Lincolnshire) or one of the BBC nationals - in which case, I either don't have the radio on at all, have CDs on, or use my FM transmitter to stream Tunein to the car radio. Having said that, much further west of Northamptonshire and you run into the West Midlands, which has Capital FM.
I was very surprised about how some of the songs were hacked - I forgot to mention, that a Jermaine Stewart song was played at only 75% runtime as well.... Hmm, I wonder if I can find that Heart FM edit of Neyo on Youtube? If not, I might tape it for you so you can hear it...
I listened to Radio X a couple of times but not too keen on it, plus it's not local at all so the only way to listen is via Tunein. Plus they've got chris moyles on the breakfast show, and what a plonker he was!
I'd probably prefer Absolute, they have their "No Repeat Guarantee" during the workday so you won't have any repeated songs - which is one of Heart's and Capital's weaknesses (repeated songs). Though I don't mind Capital repeating their songs as I don't mind the modern music.
Sorry, long post alert!
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