Breakfast changes at BBC Radio Cambridge

05/09/2012 - 06:13 | 11 Replies More

As BBC Radio Cambridge starts a new county-wide breakfast show, a local station is shouting about its local presence.

Cambridge 105 says people in the city don’t want to hear about places which are over 40 miles, and will continue to broadcast from the city centre.

At the BBC, Jeremy Sallis’ Cambridge breakfast show has been axed as the Peterborough host Paul Stainton goes county-wide. Jeremy takes on a new afternoon show instead.

Managing Editor David Harvey told the local paper: “We’ve invested more journalism and technology into one breakfast programme that will break exclusive stories, challenge those in power and seek to represent all that’s positive, exciting, creative and innovative about this amazing county of ours and Paul Stainton’s new show will deliver all this and more to our audience.”

However, community radio presenters Neil Whiteside and Lottie Booth are flying the local flag. “When you live or work in a city like Cambridge you don’t want to hear about places that are over 40 miles away,” says Neil. “We’re lucky to have a great bunch of listeners, with plenty of ideas, and they’re right here in Cambridge.”

The rest of the daytime line-up at BBC Radio Cambridge stays the same.


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  • Bloke off the radio

    The problem for Cambridge 105 is that Paul Stainton is excellent and extremely popular, whilst their Breakfast programme is a poor imitation of Star FM’s tacky breakfast, which is also poor itself. Cambridge 105 should stop trying to be a second-rate commercial station, but with even less talent than Star (which is really saying something), and try and get some more interesting presenters. Even the student station, Cam FM, is a million times better than Cam 105.

    • Radiomaniac

      Work for Cam FM do we ‘Bloke off the radio’? Plus how can Cam FM be a million times better when their sound quality sounds like theyre broadcasting through a sock and nothing is live! 97.2 has never made it into my preset as I don’t want to wreck my radio with what comes out of that station which is usually dribble and nonsense!

      • Bloke off the radio

        Nope, i’m not a student. I just like the fact that when I turn it on, it’s not full of boring, irrelevant and self-satisfied drivel, which there seems to be overwhelming amounts of on 105. Paul Stainton is great on BBC Cambs. Come on, have you actually heard the tedious output of Cam 105 and Star?

        • Me!

          So bloke off the radio, what’s your agenda here? Sounds like you have an axe to grind. Got your own (Internet only) show? Just friends and family for listeners? Feeling you need to strike out? I tune in every morning and I love waking up to 105. If that makes me irrelevant and self satisfied then hallelujah!Keep up the good work

          • Bloke off the radio

            Nope, I don’t do internet radio and I don’t work in Cambridge. My agenda is that it’s a waste of a license to have a station doing a very poor imitation of another poor commercial station. So much of the daytime output is tedious smug banality with very limited appeal. There are some great community stations out there and it’s a shame that a city like Cambridge isn’t home to one of them.

          • kit

            This is such nonsense that I really doubt that “Bloke off the radio” has ever even heard Cambridge 105′s Breakfast show ! I have to say that I regularly listen to it in preference to all other stations in Cambridge as it seems to have the best mix of music and news and is the most relevant to the City. The fact this bloke doesn’t live or work in the city tells you just how worthless his opinion is ! If he really is a “bloke off th radio” I am just glad he is Off and not On it anymore!

    • 105 Breakfast listener!

      I would just like to say that my Husband & myself are regular listeners of Cambridge 105, especially the breakfast show with Neil & Lottie. We both find it very irritating when we have listened to other radio shows when presenters prattle on about road closures, roadworks and other road problems that are not relevant to us & where we live. We both love the fact that you can text a request into the show & within minutes you are listening to it! As for Cam FM we have never heard of it!!! Drive time with Tim Willet also is very good listening! The music is never repeated on a daily basis unlike other stations & you get everything from 50′s up to the present day!!! It’s light hearted & brings a smile to my face most mornings! My mornings are brighter since listening to Camridge 105!!!! Keep up the good work Neil & Lottie!!! Sharon & Peter.

      • Marcus Lochton

        I agree with this, I’m Marcus and a regular listener to the station. I love the Renegade Rock show with Mike as well as the programmes across the day. I’ve always found Kevin Peters a lovely guy when I’ve texted into his shows. I also enjoy listening to Matt Webb who follows on from him from 12. I was interviewed by one of the programmes on Cambridge 105 FM recently because I was doing some charity work and other stations ignored my request for interview. Marcus Lochton, Cherry Hinton.

        • Bloke off the radio

          There’s a tiny number of committed oddballs who listen to the daytime output, no doubt; no-one normal is interested though. A lot of the evening programming on 105 is actually worthwhile, however.

      • Dave Orris

        Sorry but Cambridge 105 is drivel. Sounds like its full of washed-up hippies who never left the 70s behind. The reception in town really sucks. At least Cam fms signal is good.

        It’s pretty obvious that most of these posts here are from Cambridge 105 djs.

  • Kit

    To Be fair I thought I’d double check so I have just been listening to the BBC’s new “local” Breakfast show for Cambridge with Paul Stainton – Very hard work.

    Firstly it may as well have been called Radio Peterborough since all the guests came from Peterborough and all the references were to Peterborough and not Cambridge except for a couple of Travel reports – and I am not sure how accurate they were either.

    Secondly the style was dry and a bit boring and the second voice was very similar to the first – I assume it was one of his mates.

    It just sounded like two forty something year-old blokes getting away from the kids in the morning to have a bit of a whinge on the Radio – Not my idea of a bright way to get up and get to work in Cambridge in the morning – Yawn!

    No I’ll be sticking with Cambridge 105 from now on – Listening To Neil and Lottie cheering me up before I start work. Keep it up Cambridge 105! I can’t believe we pay the BBC hundreds of thousands of pounds through our licence fee for such a poor local service when Cambridge 105 do it for free!

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