KCFM - Ofcom Licensing

The most-played track on Magic was:
ARTIST TITLE PLAYS
James Blunt Wise Men 2
The most-played tracks on Galaxy were:
ARTIST TITLE PLAYS
Beyonce & Slim Thug Check On It 5
Big Ang It's Over Now 5
DHT & Edmee Listen To Your Heart 5
Hi Tack Say Say Say 5
Stunt Raindrops 5
Haji & Emmanuel Take Me Away 4
Herd & Fitz feat Abigail BaileyI Just Can't Get Enough4
Kanye West Touch The Sky 4
Martin Solveig Jealousy 4
Pussycat Dolls Stick Wit U 4
Ray J One Wish 4
In tune with the heartbeat of the city
Speech
There was no specialist speech-based content, such as interviews, phone-in shows or other features, on
any of the three stations during the monitored period.
Apart from news bulletins, the rest of the speech content consisted of presenter chat, showbiz and
entertainment news and station contests.
There was a higher proportion of speech during the breakfast shows, especially on Viking and Galaxy where
there was more than one presenter leading to general banter between the different team members.
Outside the breakfast shows, much of the presenters’ speech consisted of introducing or back-announcing
the music, promoting what was coming up later on the show and amusing stories from the papers or
comments on life from the presenter’s own experiences.
Both Viking and Galaxy were running high-profile contests through the day where listeners could win
some big prizes.
In Viking’s ‘Mystery Voices’ contest, listeners were invited not only to guess the identities of three
celebrities who had been edited to say ‘Viking FM’ but to get them in the correct order There would be a
round of the competition each hour during the day, where a caller would guess who the voices were. If
they got all three in the correct order they would win the money. If they were wrong a further £50 would
be added to the prize fund.
Galaxy had ‘Pick Your Ring’ where listeners could pre-register and then, if they were called when the
game was played, they would win the last fully-named prize read out by the presenter between each ring
of the phone. Prizes ranged from cash to iPods and DVD players, as well as some ‘booby prizes’, such as a
box of paperclips or a pair of one of the station presenter’s underpants!
Magic had some smaller competitions during individual programmes, but there were no station-wide contests.
News
Viking FM and Magic 1161 ran news bulletins at the top of each hour throughout the monitored
period, as well as on the half-hour during breakfast and drivetime. Viking’s bulletins were 2?minutes
long, while Magic’s were 3-minutes. Magic also had a 15-minute news programme, ‘Full
Story At Five’ at 5.00pm.
Galaxy 105’s news consisted short, 60-second, bulletins at approximately 5 minutes to the hour during
breakfast and drivetime, with additional bulletins at approximately 25 minutes past the hour during the
breakfast show only. There was no other news coverage outside these times.
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