Heart Bristol live

Heart Bristol serves Bristol and Bath, carrying the Heart network's national output with regional news, travel and advertising. The licence has a long history in the city. It descends from the local commercial stations that served the west country from the 1980s onwards, brought under the Heart name during the consolidation that followed Global's purchase of GCap Media in 2008. Bristol is a substantial radio market with an unusually strong independent and community scene, so the station competes not only with BBC Radio Bristol but with a set of smaller stations that have real local followings. As with the rest of Heart's regional services, the local element is now the news bulletins, the travel and the commercial breaks. Ofcom's 2019 decision to allow networked programming removed most locally produced shows across British commercial radio, and Heart applied it throughout the group. The playlist is the network's familiar broad adult pop, spread across several decades. Press play above for the live feed, free and with nothing to download.