Soleil Radio

Soleil Radio is a music service for listeners across the Channel Islands. The broadcaster presents it as a station of enduring songs, giving it a classic-hits focus distinct from the broader local music schedules of Channel 103 and Island FM. Its geographic brief is also different: it addresses the islands together rather than identifying only Jersey or Guernsey.

David Francis presents the morning sequence, while several recurring music features organise the rest of the day. 90s at 9 revisits the nineties, Love at 11 concentrates on love songs and Awesome 80's returns to the previous decade. Soleil's Music Marathon offers a longer run of records, with Stressbusters shaping the evening around a more relaxed selection.

This structure gives Soleil several distinct musical settings without changing stations. The decade programmes narrow the period, the love-song hour narrows the theme, and the evening sequence changes the mood. Recent records have included Paul Young's Wherever I Lay My Hat, Kylie Minogue's Put Yourself in My Place and Luther Vandross's So Amazing. Other selections include Foreigner, Kool & the Gang and The Verve, showing that its familiar-song approach reaches across pop, soul and rock.

Soleil is part of Tindle Radio's Channel Islands group. The broadcaster publishes island news and events alongside the programme, but its station identity covers both Jersey and Guernsey rather than borrowing the name of either island's local service. David Francis's presented morning and the named music sequences are the clearest guide to its sound: an established-song format with recurring decade and relaxation features throughout the day.