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Born and raised in County Durham, [3] Shaw began her radio career at Newcastle's Metro Radio, which she joined as a journalist before going on to present for the station.In 2004, she moved to Century Radio (later Real Radio then Heart North East), where she twice co-presented Gary and Lisa at Breakfast alongside Gary Philipson, first in 2004 and again between 2010 and 2014.
Century was based in a building next to the Tyne Bridge Tower for most of its life The former studios at Team Valley, Gateshead. Century Radio was the first regional station for North East England and also was the first to use the Century brand, which followed a 'personality' format, mixing speech and music.
The brand was developed with the launch of 100-102 Century Radio in North East England in 1994, with John Myers as managing director and John Simons as programme director. The brand grew when Myers launched 106 Century FM for the East Midlands, and further when 105.4 Century Radio was launched in North West England in 1998.
In September 1994, he launched Century Radio in North East England.He again presented the breakfast show, this time under the pseudonym of John Morgan. [4] [5] Myers later released a compilation cassette of the wind-ups from his show, and even a novelty single, called "Three Rosettes", under the further pseudonym of Mr Martin.
They are 100.4 Jazz FM (north west England), 100–102 Century Radio (north east England), Galaxy 101 which launches a dance music service on the 4th to the Severn estuary area, 100.7 Heart FM which launches on the 6th and covers the West Midlands and Scot FM which broadcasts music and speech to the Scottish central belt.
In August 2012, the two former Century Network stations, in the North East and the North West, were gaining just half the listeners they once had. [ citation needed ] Both saw a decline in Listening Share In TSA % when comparing Q2 period in 2011 and 2012, from 6.30% to 4.8%, and 3.9% to 3.0% respectively. [ 21 ]
Heart began broadcasting in the West Midlands on 6 September 1994 as 100.7 Heart FM, becoming the UK's third Independent Regional Radio station, five days after Century Radio in North East England, and Jazz FM North West. The first song to be played on 100.7 Heart FM was Something Got Me Started by Simply Red.
The station opened as Century Radio on 8 September 1998 as the second Century station in the country (the first being Gateshead-based 100-102 Century Radio).Owned and operated by Border Television, Century was founded by managing director John Myers, who had also established the north east station four years earlier.