Real Radio North East began a gradual transition to the Heart branding on 24 March 2014. The Real Radio branding was phased out a month later ahead of a full relaunch as Heart North East on 6 May 2014. Around the time of the rebrand, the station's audience share was 3.8% (as of June 2014). Gary Philipson and Lisa Shaw presented their final breakfast show in December 2014 after almost five years at the station. Justin Lockwood and Kelly Scott were promoted from the drivetime show and replaced the duo. Heart Gloucestershire presenter Tom Campbell joined inturn to takeover from Lockwood and Scott. In May 2015, Heart North East moved to new studios at new studios at Wellbar Central in Newcastle city centre, shared with sister station Capital North East and Communicorp-owned Smooth North East. In February 2019, following OFCOM's decision to relax local content obligations from commercial radio, Global announced it would replace Heart North East's local breakfast and weekend shows with networked programming from London. Breakfast presenters Justin Lockwood and Kelly Scott, alongside drivetime presenter Tom Campbell left the station in May 2019, with the latter joining wrestling-centric YouTube channel Cultaholic. As of 3 June 2019, the station's local output consists of a three-hour Drivetime show on weekdays, alongside local news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising. Programming All networked programming originates from Global's London headquarters, including Heart Breakfast, presented each weekday by Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden. Regional programming is produced and broadcast from Global's Newcastle studios from 4-7pm on weekdays, presented by James Cusack. News Global's Newcastle newsroom broadcasts hourly regional news bulletins from 6am to 7pm on weekdays and from 6am to 12pm at weekends with headlines on the half-hour during weekday breakfast and drivetime shows. National news updates air hourly from Global's London headquarters at all other times. Notable former presenters Ali Brownlee Wes Butters Rich Clarke Eric Gates Micky Horswill Roger Kennedy Malcolm Macdonald Bobby Moncur Jonathan Morrell Dave Roberts Gary Rowell Ryan Seacrest Lisa Shaw Dave Sherwood Bernie Slaven Graeme Smith Kate Thornton References External links Radio stations in North East England North East Radio stations established in 1994 Mass media in Newcastle upon Tyne Mass media in Northumberland 1994 establishments in England