Both shows begin at 6am weekday mornings, and both have a very different approach to entertaining their audiences. Hughesy and Kate include a mass amount of audience participation, celebrity interviews and light hearted conversation about current television shows or something in the presenters’ private lives. Whatever the topic of conversation, the audience can relate to it, or at least understand it. Emma Ayres on the other hand has a very specific audience: People who like classical music. Her show consists almost completely of music; with an awkward segue from Ayres between each.
As mentioned before, the shows have completely different layouts. Nova, with its team of three presenters (Hughesy, Kate, and new addition Ed) along with their newsreader have informal conversations with each other and members of the general public. Playing the occasional popular song amongst a bunch of adverts. This makes Classic fm look almost primitive as all it has is one presenter (Emma Ayres) reading out the news and weather and naming the songs previously played.
Listeners are understandably frustrated with Nova due to the annoying adverts and almost no music. Classic fm has no advertising other than a couple for the afternoon show, but despite this, Emma Ayres still manages to make it boring. Her snobbish and bland voice just makes you want to change the station between songs. But in her defence, she does know what she’s talking about.
Classic fm is obviously aiming for an older demographic, and if you are into classical music it is definitely the station for you. But if you want a fun, light hearted and funny start to your morning, I would definitely suggest Hughesy and Kate on Nova 100.
I don't think you have ever listened to Emma Ayers! She certainly doesn't read the news, and the segues are certainly not awkward.
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Hello Sophie, I think you're not being fair to Emma Ayers at all. Not only does she bring a very charming and friendly touch to the often staid world of classical music - she never comes across as awkward. She is an intelligent, friendly and highly articulate woman - who in my opinion makes her listeners feel like she is a good friend. I also like to listen to the music on NOVA - however, the station's presenters are nowhere near the league Emma is in in terms of intellect. Emma is an expert in her field of music and is able to impart her knowledge to a wide audience base in an easy-to-digest way. I find NOVA DJs - simply that... DJs - but are entertaining on occasion none-the-less.
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