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- Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:44 pm
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if only for a short time, from todays Guardian online.
Heart has signed up former BBC Radio 1 DJ Emma B to host a new weekend programme and deputise on its Jamie Theakston breakfast show.
Radio and television presenter Emma (real name Battersby), who most recently presented the Sunday Surgery advice show on Radio 1, joins Chrysalis' London station after it recorded a disappointed set of ratings figures.
Heart lost the London ratings crown to Capital, with Heart's listening hours plummeting from 15.6m to 11.2m quarter-on-quarter and Theakston's debut on the breakfast show seeing 199,000 listeners switch off, albeit after a quarter in which his predecessor Jono Coleman achieved a record figure.
Emma B will join Theakston when his co-presenter, Harriet Scott, goes on holiday at the end of August. She will also host what Chrysalis calls "a variety of weekend shows".
Mark Browning, the programme director at Heart, said she was one of the UK's most credible radio presenters, adding that "her upbeat and an engaging style further strengthen Heart's 30-something on-air team".
Emma B secured her first national radio show on Radio 1 back in 1998, presenting the early morning show on Saturdays. She went on to co-present a Saturday afternoon show with Sara Cox as well as deputising for Steve Lamacq and Chris Moyles.
Heart has signed up former BBC Radio 1 DJ Emma B to host a new weekend programme and deputise on its Jamie Theakston breakfast show.
Radio and television presenter Emma (real name Battersby), who most recently presented the Sunday Surgery advice show on Radio 1, joins Chrysalis' London station after it recorded a disappointed set of ratings figures.
Heart lost the London ratings crown to Capital, with Heart's listening hours plummeting from 15.6m to 11.2m quarter-on-quarter and Theakston's debut on the breakfast show seeing 199,000 listeners switch off, albeit after a quarter in which his predecessor Jono Coleman achieved a record figure.
Emma B will join Theakston when his co-presenter, Harriet Scott, goes on holiday at the end of August. She will also host what Chrysalis calls "a variety of weekend shows".
Mark Browning, the programme director at Heart, said she was one of the UK's most credible radio presenters, adding that "her upbeat and an engaging style further strengthen Heart's 30-something on-air team".
Emma B secured her first national radio show on Radio 1 back in 1998, presenting the early morning show on Saturdays. She went on to co-present a Saturday afternoon show with Sara Cox as well as deputising for Steve Lamacq and Chris Moyles.
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