Weekday Programmes
Chris Merrick began playing guitar in bands at the age of 13 and going professional at 18 with contracts abroad for 9 years (playing bass guitar).
Chris was Entertainments Manager at Stars Nightclub in Weston Super Mare from 1983 – 1990 plus teaching guitar and bass and running a mobile disco enterprise.
In 1991 Chris formed a 5 piece band to work in Sarawak, Malaysia (Holiday Inn, Miri) and after 3 months moved to Spain and then the Canary Islands in 1992.
Chris worked for one of the first British radio stations in 1997 doing various daytime slots throughout 16 years until 2013 (Tenerife) (www.oasisfm.com)
At present Chris uses his home recording studio to record radio programmes using Logic Pro X, Apogee ‘ONE’ audio interface, Audio Technica (ASM) microphone with Kaotica Eyeball, in between doing voice overs, teaching music lessons and playing bass guitar occasionally with the band ‘Roadhouse’
Hits too good to turn down and light conversation.
About Richard:
A radio in each room is how it all started; my own, the one in the lounge, a borrowed one, a spare one and so on…all tuned into the same station! So as I moved about music was there. The sound got louder as I moved nearer to the radio – bliss! I was ten years old, which was a while ago! Ouch!
My dad bought an amazing stereo system. It was BIG, in fact too big for the house! Most of my mates wanted to come round with their albums and play them loud. It really did kick! I played mine too!
Then the parties started – I took the stereo to every party going. Then it accompanied me to discos and clubs and then to bigger discos and events. I still listened to the radio though, everyday; it was always on in the house or car.
Decided it was time to move on and so I set off to Norway to work as a DJ in the clubs and hotels, touring round that beautiful country. Then it was on to Denmark, France Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. Soon I felt it was time to move on again. One day the phone rang and my agent asked if I would like to go to New York on the QE2 and work onboard as DJ. “YOU BET!” From then on, I never looked back and continued working on various cruise Ships for the next fifteen years. I spent nine months based in the Caribbean and then moved onto P&O Lines, which took me all over the world. I can say, that as Radio Presenter doing daily programmes on the ships’ radio service, I have fronted programmes on all of the oceans of the world and on every continent. There were always exciting and amazing views out of my studio window – New York, San Francisco, Sydney, Honolulu, Osaka, Singapore, Hong Kong, Auckland, Cape Town, Rio and Fiji, plus all the ports in the Med. I even ended up in Iceland and a thousand miles up the Amazon in Manaus! Wow, what a journey of discovery! There was always plenty to talk about on the programme after a day in a wonderful port, and the famous guests were plentiful. I travelled with the stars and interviewed many of them on my radio show too!
In 1998, I joined Peak FM in Chesterfield in Derbyshire fronting the Late Night Love Songs Show. I did this for ten years along with hosting and working on most of their outside broadcasts and events. What great days!
And so to present day… doing my radio show on Power FM, my voice-over work, local DJ work and so my journey continues! What keeps me here? My two kids and love of the Derbyshire Hills, Enjoy!
The Questions!
First Job : Stacking packets of sugar in Tesco
Worst Job : Tidying up after stacking sugar in Tesco
Ideal Job : Cruising the world as a DJ on Cruise Ships
Favourite quote : Handcuffed to a Ghost
Favourite Movie : Any of the Peter O’Toole films – think of one now…see !
Favourite Person : My two kids
Calories or carrots : Carrots preferably uncooked and uncut
Sun, Sea or Sand : Sea Sea Sea
My best feature : Hair, still have all of it
First record I ever bought : Thunderbirds E.P. – Cost 7/11(nearly 40p) ! – Bargain – Still have it…
Cost:
£10 Per programme
The Breakfast show is a 3 hour daily show aimed at the Breakfast Audience with a mix of light hearted news stories, daily facts, listener interaction and the morning’s Headlines. The show is produced by HitMusic Network and hosted by Danny Looker a veteran of Breakfast Broadcasting with over 15 years of on air experience.
The Breakfast Show is available in various formats including daily download from 6.30 am with a live feed broadcast from 8am GMT. Each hour is blocked so that a modular broadcast format can be adopted (there is no need to take the full 3 hours as no forward promotion is done past the hour marker).
Prices quoted are for internet stations and FM & Commercial stations broadcasting outside of the UK. We do offer a concession for non profit stations please click here. If you are an FM/Commercial station in the UK and wish to take the show please click here
The show is available via Live Feed between 8am & 11am GMT with news headlines provided by FSN on the hour during the show. Musical content is a mix of current chart and classic hits (80’S/90’S/00’S).
Please note that this feed does not provide Opt Outs for local advertising etc and will carry generic HitMusic Network Branding and corporate advertising messages (Continuous and direct feed) – £25 per week
Fully Produced for Download – Provided in 4 blocks per hour totalling approx 57 mins with mix of current chart and classic hits (80’S/90’S/00’S).
This option, our most popular gives the ability to simply add the program into your Schedule. There is no branding or imaging and the program is delivered in 4 blocks per hour allowing for local imaging and advertising insertion. The show is recorded in a modular fashion so that you can opt for the full three hours or a mix of any three.
1HR £25 p/w £100 PCM when Paid before the 1st of the Month
2HR £40 p/w £150 PCM when Paid before the 1st of the Month
3HR £50 p/w £175 PCM when Paid in advance before the 1st of the Month
Link Only – 15 Daily generic voice links are provided in mp3 format to be added to your own play out system. Ideal for HMN Cloud/Local subscriber stations as the show will carry your full station imaging, advertising and selected musical genre.
Affiliated HMN Stations: £30 p/w £100 PCM when Paid before the 1st of the Month
Non Affiliated Stations: £40 p/w £125 PCM when paid before the 1st of the Month
Station Specific links – In addition to the daily generic links a further 5 local links can be provided as per your instruction. These are available as a bolt on in conjunction with full station integration on a link only package and are charged in addition to the standard daily links:
5 Extra local links per day
Affiliated HMN Stations: £20 p/w £50 PCM when Paid before the 1st of the Month
Non Affiliated Stations: £30 p/w £100 PCM when paid before the 1st of the Month
5 Extra local links + Full Station Id into and out of links
Affiliated HMN Stations: £50 p/w £175 PCM when Paid before the 1st of the Month
Non Affiliated Stations: £75 p/w £225 PCM when paid before the 1st of the Month
Not what you are looking for?
Produced to specification shows are also available please contact us with your requirements for a quotation.
Show name
The Callum Sutton Show
Type of show
Talk (Satire)
Duration of show
4hrs
Additional Details
Four hour show with four minutes of local content at the top of every
hour (starting 00:58, ending 00:02 the next hour) apart from the last
hour where there’s an opt out at 00:58.
At 22 years old, Lee’s done a lot in his short time in the radio
industry.
Trained at commerical station Real Radio Yorkshire at the age of 17,
Lee went on to be a part of their successful sales and promotions
team, whilst presenting his first show at internet based station,
Radio Barnsley.
Lee then progressed to be a local news researcher/presenter for
Sheffield Live FM, host of his own show at local radio station Sine
FM, and last year completed his stint as Redroad FM breakfast host,
broadcasting every morning to Rotherham, Sheffield and North
Derbyshire. Finishing full-time to persue a career as a media
lecturer.
Lee also has a great track record as a station producer, constantly
looking at ways to develop new content, presenters, popularity, online
presence and listener interaction for local stations.
Lee also has a degree in Broadcast Media, studying for three years at
Leeds Metropolitan University, and in 2015 qualified as a
college/university lecturer after completing his PGCE at the
University of Huddersfield.
So, If your after someone with a mixture of youth and experience to
play a part on your schedule, look no further!
Hits too good to turn down and light conversation with the Bad Boy Leroy Brown.
About Leroy
Leroy was born in Derby in the Midlands many moons ago & joined the British Army at the tender age of 16.
At the age of 19 while serving in Belize Central America Leroy was approached by officer who ordered him into the camp radio studio to learn how to do radio shows for the forces as he’d always noticed that Leroy was always listening to music on his boogie box.
As they say, the rest is history.
Leroy ended up broadcasting for BFBS the British forces radio network in Belize, Central America, & Germany.
In the uk Leroy did hospital & community radio in Derby with an ardent following.
Moving to the Canary Islands in 2001 Leroy working for various station across the Canaries until returning back to the UK in 2009.
Cost:
£10 per programme
With over 15 years of professional radio experience, Spencer James is back behind the microphone… every weekday!
Join Spencer every day for music and chat, a look at what is going on in the world, and his take on the music he plays.
With a lively mix, and an upbeat presentation style, this is an ideal drive-time or afternoon programme.
About Spencer:
Spencer James has been working in the media for over 15 years, and has been broadcasting for over a decade.
In that time he has been the programming controller for the UK’s first bi-lingual student radio station, Production & Promotions Manager for one of Spain’s biggest English radio networks, drive time and breakfast host on stations in the south east of the UK, as well as hosting the globally broadcast Top 4o chart show Airplay40.
His passion for the media started originally in television, where he became a first assistant director for a couple of short films, one of which was BAFTA nominated. It was whilst at university however he truly became involved in radio broadcasting. Starting as a presenter, he worked up the ranks to become the Programme Manager for 2 years whilst also attaining a degree in Film & Television at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Post graduation, he worked abroad, for what was supposed to be a summer break. 3 years later he was still there helping in the running of the station. His return to the UK saw him take a role at AA Roadwatch, reporting travel news across north London, Essex, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire as one of the flying eyes. He spent his days flying around in a small airplane reporting on accidents and jams. It sounds more glamorous than it was!
In 2003 he started working as a presenter for one of the major radio groups in the South East of the UK, working throughout the schedule from drive time to breakfast show presenter. In the spring of 2008, Spencer hit upon the idea of a chart show for radio stations broadcasting to expatriates, and from that The eXpat Chart was born. Fast forward 3 years, and the show had expanded to a bigger audience than ever before expected. As a result, the name was changed and at the start of 2013, the chart became known as Airplay40.
When Spencer is not behind the microphone, he can be found cheering on the England rugby team, as well as trying to hit a golf ball around the place. He also likes creating and experimenting in the kitchen, trying to invent new and interesting recipes, usually with varying degrees of success.
Free as part of the Hit Music Network
If you are a subscriber to the Hit Music Network, this programme is provided as part of your package.
Cost, Format & Delivery
Prices quoted are for internet stations. We do offer a concession for non profit stations please click here. If you are an FM/Commercial station in the UK and wish to take the show please contact us.
The show is available via Live Feed or Download daily.
The live feed is available between 5pm & 8pm GMT with news headlines provided by FSN on the hour during the show (FSN subscription required). Musical content is a mix of current chart and classic hits (80’S/90’S/00’S).
Please note that this feed does not provide Opt Outs for local advertising etc and will carry generic HitMusic Network Branding and corporate advertising messages (Continuous and direct feed) – £25 per week.
For FM stations broadcasting outside of the UK – £50 Per Week.
Download is available before transmission, via our dedicated secure FTP system. Fully Produced for Download – Provided in 4 blocks per hour totalling approx 57 mins with mix of current chart and classic hits (80’S/90’S/00’S).
Programme duration: 3 Hours.
Delivery: Daily
There is no branding or imaging and the program is delivered in 4 blocks per hour allowing for local imaging and advertising insertion. The show is recorded in a modular fashion so that you can opt for the full three hours or a mix of any three.
Generic Link Service
If you are looking for generic links with no ID, for filling hours: £40 p/w
(40 links updated regularly)
Station Specific links
In addition to the daily generic links a further 5 local links can be provided as per your instruction. These are available as a bolt on in conjunction with full station integration on a link only package and are charged in addition to the standard daily links:
5 Extra local links per day
Affiliated HMN Stations: £20 p/w when Paid before the 1st of the Month
Non Affiliated Stations: £30 p/w when paid before the 1st of the Month
5 Extra local links + Full Station Id into and out of links
Affiliated HMN Stations: £50 p/w when Paid before the 1st of the Month
Non Affiliated Stations: £75 p/w when paid before the 1st of the Month
Not what you are looking for?
Produced to specification shows are also available please contact us with your requirements for a quotation