How we checked Soleil Radio
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. We changed 1 thing about this entry. We also found 3 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
Soleil Radio bills itself as "The Channel Islands' greatest songs all day long" and plays, in its own words, "the islands' greatest songs all day long, from the 70s, 80s and 90s". It is a Channel Islands service run from Jersey, and its own footer states "Soleil Radio is part of Tindle Radio". It broadcasts on FM in Jersey and on DAB+ across the Channel Islands, and carries local news for both Jersey and Guernsey alongside weather, events and competitions.
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Soleil Radio | 2026 |
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Artists
From the station's own Just Played list, read live: UB40 with "Kingston Town", Shania Twain with "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!", Shanks And Bigfoot with "Sweet Like Chocolate", and Crowded House.
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Soleil Radio | 2026 |
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Contact route
Plenty, all on its own domain. A dedicated Get in touch page, a studio email address on the soleilradio.com domain, two studio text and WhatsApp numbers, one for Jersey and one for Guernsey, each used by starting the message with the word SOLEIL, a separate commercial email address and telephone number, a general enquiries email address, a web form with reCAPTCHA, two postal addresses, and its own Facebook, Instagram and X accounts.
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Soleil Radio | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://www.soleilradio.com/contact/
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Soleil Radio | 2026 |
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Era
The 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, which the station states outright in its own site description and builds two daily shows around, 90s at 9 and Soleil Radio Awesome 80's.
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Soleil Radio | 2026 |
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Music
Adult contemporary and classic hits, described by the station as the islands' greatest songs, with local news bulletins.
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Soleil Radio | 2026 |
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Language
English.
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Soleil Radio | 2026 |
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Kind
Live and presenter-led in the named show slots, with automated or unpresented blocks overnight and in the music marathon. Its On Air Now and Now Playing panels updated correctly against the clock while I read the site, and its Just Played timestamps advanced, so the station is genuinely live rather than showing a frozen block.
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Soleil Radio | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
It is a shared service with a split identity by design: two postal addresses in two jurisdictions, two studio text numbers flagged with the Jersey and Guernsey flags, and news written by journalists at two sister stations, all feeding one programme stream.
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Soleil Radio | 2026 |
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Where
Broadcasts from Jersey. Its own How To Listen page states "Soleil Radio is now available on 107.7FM from our transmitter in St Helier", and adds that listeners can hear it "across Jersey on FM, across the Channel Islands on DAB+", where the DAB service is listed as "Soleil Radio CI". Its commercial team's telephone number is a Jersey number. It publishes two postal addresses, one in St Helier, Jersey and one in St Peter Port, Guernsey.
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Soleil Radio | 2026 |
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On air
David Francis, Jo Lloyd (Sunday morning with Jo), Jason King (Get home with Jason) and Dan Mills (Wake up with Dan), all named on the station's own Shows & Presenters page.
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Soleil Radio | 2026 |
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Programmes
From its own schedule for the day of reading, Sunday 27 September 2026: Soleil Radio Overnight from 00:00, Soleil Sunday Breakfast from 08:00, 90s at 9 at 09:00 ("Turn back the clock with 90's at 9"), Soleil Sunday Breakfast resuming at 10:00, Love at 11 at 11:00 ("Kick back and relax with an hour of love songs"), Soleil Radio Awesome 80's at 12:00, and Soleil's Music Marathon from 13:00. Named weekday shows from its Shows & Presenters page: Sunday morning with Jo, Get home with Jason, and Wake up with Dan.
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Soleil Radio | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
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| language code |
en
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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English. The station's own site is English throughout, from its strapline "The Channel Islands' greatest songs all day long" to its show titles (90s at 9, Love at 11, Soleil Radio Awesome 80's, Soleil Sunday Breakfast, Wake up with Dan) and its news headlines for Jersey and Guernsey. Its own Just Played list while I was reading ran UB40, Shania Twain and Shanks And Bigfoot, all English-language records. The French name Soleil is branding only; nothing on the site is in French. Noted for the log because this row invites the opposite guess: the name is French and the Channel Islands have a French heritage, but the operator's own output is English. |
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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| A verdict that the stored country code is wrong | It is right. The row was flagged because JE is easy to confuse and "Soleil" is French, and the temptation was to read "Channel Islands" as unresolvable and clear the field. The operator settles it themselves: the FM transmitter is in St Helier and the FM coverage is Jersey. So country_code JE stands and I have proposed no change to it. The audience is a different matter, being Jersey plus Guernsey plus Alderney, which is more than one ISO code, so if an audience field is ever set for this row a single code would be wrong.
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| A Soleil newsroom and the news headlines as Soleil's own journalism | The contact page states the news is "provided by our dedicated team of journalists based at Channel 103 and Island FM", and sends news enquiries to those two newsdesks. The bulletins are real but the newsroom is the sister stations'.
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| The Public File as Soleil's own | The link labelled Public File in Soleil's own footer points at channel103.com, the sister station's file, not a Soleil document.
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If you think something here is wrong
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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.
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