How we checked Heart 80s
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. Nothing needed correcting. We also found 2 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
Heart 80s is a UK digital station playing nothing but 1980s pop and rock, pitched as feel-good listening. It launched in March 2017 as one of the decade-themed spin-offs from the main Heart network, and it is run by Global Media and Entertainment from studios at Leicester Square in London. The schedule is largely automated apart from a live weekday breakfast show, with specialist slots such as "Heart 80s Dance Classics" filling the evenings.
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Wikipedia | 2026 |
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Artists
Billy Ocean, Bonnie Tyler, Boy George, Tony Hadley
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Wikipedia | 2026 |
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Contact route
This channel has a contact page of its own on the station's domain, and it says plainly that what it offers is the parent group's customer support: an on-screen Support or Chat button, an email address at the group's domain, and a telephone line with stated weekday opening hours and public holidays excluded. So the route belongs to the parent group and is shared across its stations; no studio, request or text-in route for this channel was found. The channel page does link Facebook and Instagram accounts specific to this channel, alongside the group's YouTube.
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Heart (heart.co.uk) | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://www.heart.co.uk/80s/contact/
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Heart (heart.co.uk) | 2026 |
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Era
1980s
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Wikipedia | 2026 |
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Music
1980s pop and rock, with a dance classics strand
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Wikipedia | 2026 |
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Language
English
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Wikipedia | 2026 |
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Kind
Studio recordings, with a live presented breakfast show
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Wikipedia | 2026 |
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Where
London, United Kingdom; national DAB+ and online, with no FM frequency
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Wikipedia | 2026 |
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On air
Simon Beale presents Heart 80s Breakfast weekdays 6am to 10am and Saturdays 8am to 12pm, Heart 80s Dance Classics airs 6pm to 8pm, the rest of the schedule is non stop 80s with no named presenter
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Heart 80s Schedule | 2026 |
What we corrected
Nothing. This station's entry matched what its own site says, which is worth recording: a clean check is a result, not an absence of one.
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| The customer-support email address and telephone number | Never copying actual emails or numbers into this file, and both are the parent group's rather than this channel's.
source |
| The channel's contact page also reached a second page for advertising enquiries | That is a commercial route, not a listener route, so it was not counted.
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If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: Heart 80s — listed via Radio Browser · https://www.heart.co.uk/80s