{"id":189084,"date":"2025-10-04T06:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/189084\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T06:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:25:18","slug":"heart-xmas-and-smooth-christmas-launch-on-dab-digital-radio-radiotoday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/189084\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Xmas and Smooth Christmas launch on DAB digital radio \u2013 RadioToday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a itemprop=\"url\" class=\"ysbvegnl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/todayl.ink\/aiirjune\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ysbvegnl-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/RTUKPackageDeal1webp.webp.webp\" alt=\"Aiir June 2\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heart Xmas officially switched on today across the UK, joined by the return of Smooth Christmas on London DAB. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/todayl.ink\/WiseBuddah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/RadioToday-Small-Image-150x150-1.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heart Breakfast\u2019s Amanda Holden, described as the station\u2019s ultimate Christmas enthusiast, left co-host Jamie Theakston live on-air this morning to press the button next door in the Heart Xmas studio.<\/p>\n<p>The station will now play Christmas hits around the clock, including songs by Mariah Carey, Wham! and Michael Bubl\u00e9. Heart says it will broadcast non-stop festive music until Christmas Day on radio, smart speaker and via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalplayer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Global Player<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Smooth Christmas is also back, with the station promising listeners \u201calways the best Christmas music\u201d from artists such as Elton John, Whitney Houston and Slade.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda said she goes \u201ccompletely over the top\u201d for Christmas and was delighted to launch Heart\u2019s seasonal output. Sally Ardis, Senior Managing Editor of Heart and Smooth, said both stations were about giving listeners an early start to the season.<\/p>\n<p>Heart Xmas and Smooth Christmas are both on air from today, Monday 29th September.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Bauer <a href=\"https:\/\/radiotoday.co.uk\/2025\/09\/magic-radio-launches-festive-pop-up-station-magic-christmas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched<\/a> its own festive service, Magic Christmas, playing the best variety of Christmas favourites, also across the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heart Xmas officially switched on today across the UK, joined by the return of Smooth Christmas on London&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-189084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}