Talk radio

[Kentdx]

I think a light hearted talk radio station would do really well legal, Internet or pirate it doesn't matter. LBC is all news and boring government stuff now where as when it was Caesar the geezer and Ian lee etc on there it was well funny and entertaining! I remember having to go on a long drive one night to pick up a synthesiser and was listening to all these weirdos ringing in and Ian lee was ripping the piss out of them without them knowing and it was among the best and funniest radio Id ever heard lol
As far as I know there's no stations like that now in the whole of Britain unless anyone knows otherwise.

[shuffy]

I don't know what's happened to that particular genre of talk radio in the UK over the last few years. It's as if there's no market for it any more - LBC phased out the more frivolous side (maybe just Nick Abbot doing a bit now?) and around the same time, talksport dropped the "talk" altogether. In the early 2000s both were great for it - the likes of Lee, Tommy Boyd and James Whale all had their regular nutters phoning up. Can't have been just us who enjoyed it immensely, surely? Since the phone-in boom in the early to mid 80s with the likes of Whale, Stannage, Robson and Allan Beswick who was hugely successful as a phone-in host in the mid 80s, it's all tailed off. Whale was demoted to being vaguely political at drivetime on LBC (he can't have enjoyed it but I suppose he was grateful for the work) before being sacked. Beswick's talent is now wasted doing a very mediocre breakfast on Radio Manchester, patronising pensioners and mispronouncing footballers' names.

Perhaps it's too risky these days for the commercials and the BBC to let lots of nutters phone up swearing, starting arguments and slandering people. Online, it's not going to get listeners, it was tried a few years back - a brave attempt by Play Radio UK ultimately failed - and as for pirates, I haven't heard a decent phone-in on one since the late 80s. It takes a special kind of talent, and that sort of programme on a pirate would be bait. Shame!

[MiXiN]

Radio City, City talk, on 96.7 and 105.9 in Liverpool from 10PM 'til 2AM on a Sunday can be hilarious.

A guy called Pete Price is the presenter and often gets the piss taken out of him. There are videos all over youtube of funny calls.