Duration: 2 Hours. Delivery Format: 2 x 55 min MP3 files (192kb) ready to air. Delivered weekly via download or CD. Programme Format: Contemporary and All-Time-Favourite love songs covering most music genres including current chart pop, classic ballads, soul ballads, and contemporary rock ballads such as Everything I Do by Bryan Adams. Each hour has three carefully prepared features that comply with the “love fantasy” attraction of the show, listeners are treated to a track from a contemporary new chart album, often as a pre-release exclusive, there is a celebrity soundbite which is no longer than 30” featuring an A-List Hollywood celebrity or a contemporary chart star, recent celebs include Justin Timberlake, KT Tunstall, Gwen Stefani, Beyonce, Daniel Craig (new James Bond), and Tom Cruise. The show also features an uninterrupted 4-song sequence each hour, The Love Show 4-Play. Demographics: The Love Show is designed as a catch-all programme with wide appeal, and popular with young females.


“It all started in 2004 when a good friend of mine who ran a satellite radio station in the UK dared me to put together a love show for him. At first I thought that the love show was a done and dusted thing, that all stations did a love show already and what could I do that wasn’t already being done. So I decided that a love show was only worth doing if it was going to be different to the ordinary, drab love show with the “Jenny loves Mike” dedications. It would need to sparkle, and have added attractions instead of relying only on the love songs. So I researched the target listener. The listener is obsessed with the cult of celebrity, magazines containing celebrity features are flying off the shelf and so a love show had to have a celebrity feature, and I subscribed, at my own cost to a Hollywood company who supplies me weekly with the latest celebrity sound bites. Non-intrusive 20 and 30 second bites that allows the celebs to appear on the show but who don’t hog the thing for more than a few seconds, it’s a perfect way to add sparkle to an up-to-date love show. Then the music for a contemporary love show must surely not all be tired old ballads I thought. The entire spectrum of pop is packed with love songs, soul dance records, soft rock songs, so many classics that are intrinsically love songs and missed totally by love shows, I researched the love song compilation albums and discovered that it was not all tired old ballads, there were soft rock love compilations, pop diva love albums and so on – radio was very out of touch with knowing which ‘love songs’ their listeners were buying! I then set about packaging the show up with some glossy imaging and recruited the services of a couple of the most beautiful voices around, including the lovely English voice talent Lynsey Frost (a BBC TV producer by day and a very close friend!), and Piers Gibbon, a well-known voice talent and TV documentary presenter. For me, The Love Show is a beautifully produced work of art, I feel like I’m making a movie or a record every week, production values have to be at their highest for me, and the result is a polished production, with a highly professional presentation. I come to this with 15 years experience as a radio presenter in all formats, and I’m not ashamed to say that this is in itself an advantage and a bonus for The Love Show.”


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