Atlantic FM was an Independent Local Radio station serving

Cornwall Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...

. Original staff included MD Jim Trevelyan, PC Mark Chapple, and News Editor Jamie Reed. Plus 4 news reporters, 4 presenters, 6 sales people, a station coordinator, plus some freelance staff. The station began broadcasting at 7:30am on 6 July 2006 by Mark Chapple and broadcast from studios at St Agnes. The station, aimed at 25- to 54-year-olds, mainly played

Adult Contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...

music with national & local

news News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or through the testimony of observers and witnesses to events. N ...

and information, including surf reports for Cornish towns and locations including

Newquay Newquay ( ; kw, Tewynblustri) is a town on the north coast in Cornwall, in the south west of England. It is a civil parish, seaside resort, regional centre for aerospace industries, spaceport and a fishing port on the North Atlantic coast of ...

Polzeath Polzeath (; kw, Polsegh, meaning ''dry creek'') is a small seaside resort village in the civil parish of St Minver in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is approximately north west of Wadebridge on the Atlantic coast.Ordnance Survey: Land ...

on the North Cornwall coast, and

Whitsand Bay Whitsand Bay, situated in south east Cornwall, England, runs from Rame Head in the east to Portwrinkle in the west. It is characterised by sheer, high cliffs, dramatic scenery and long stretches of sandy beaches. The South West Coast Path runs ...

on the South Cornwall coast. On 19 March 2012, it was announced that Global Radio had bought the station from joint owners Tindle Radio and Camel Media. The station became part of the

Heart Network Heart is a British radio network and brand of 13 adult contemporary local stations operated by Global throughout the United Kingdom, broadcasting a mix of local and networked programming. Ten of the Heart stations are owned by Global, while the ...

and merged with Heart Devon on 7 May 2012 to form

Heart South West Heart South West was a regional radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network. It broadcast to Devon and Cornwall from studios in Exeter. The station launched on Friday 27 August 2010 under the name 'Heart Devo ...

. Local breakfast and drive programming is broadcast from Heart's Exeter studios with a sales office based at Atlantic's former studios at St Agnes.UKRD responds to Atlantic's Heart switch
RadioToday, 19 March 2012

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