LBC or talkRADIO?

[ChrisC]

I love speech radio. What's the preference on here if you had to choose between talkRADIO or LBC. I used to love LBC, but I think the format is growing tiresome now. So I prefer the banter on talkRADIO. Unlike LBC's quick fire phone in's. With talkRADIO they allow callers much more time. Also sometimes it's not about the callers at all. Sometimes they have guest's. I particularly like The Unexplained with Howard Hughes. Much more variety.

 

[cupid_stunt]

With talkRADIO they allow callers much more time.

Probably because they have a lack of callers from their tiny audience, compared to LBC's.

Plus it's owned by Murdoch, so fuck them.

 

[telbert]

Been listening to LBC every morning in the car on the way to work. Steve Allen show. Quite entertaining. Also used to listen to James O Brien bout lunchtime iirc. Very good presenter.

 

[skyscraper101]

Of the two, I mainly listen to LBC if there's a big news event happening, or I'm up really early I listen to Steve Allen, but often switch it off when the ads come on. Especially that cringe divorce lawyer one aimed at men.

 

[Orang Utan]

Neither, for we now have podcasts

 

[skyscraper101]

Neither, for we now have podcasts

Podcasts are fine, except no good for live events like sport or breaking news commentary.

 

[Orang Utan]

Podcasts are fine, except no good for live events like sport or breaking news commentary.

Ah ok, that would drive me insane

 

[D'wards]

Brexit has kind of killed speech radio for me.

I used to like James o'brien but find him unlistenable now. He hardly takes any callers cos he just goes on and on, mostly about Brexit.

Lbc was great about ten years ago - quizzes, light hearted shows, specialist shows like travel, cooking or showbiz.
Its mostly all Brexit now

 

[ChrisC]

Probably because they have a lack of callers from their tiny audience, compared to LBC's.

Plus it's owned by Murdoch, so fuck them.

Don't forget that LBC employs Nigel Farage. So LBC likes to employ right wingers. Jacob Rees Mogg as well. Lol! I suppose James O'Brien balances it out somewhat.

 

[ChrisC]

Brexit has kind of killed speech radio for me.

I used to like James o'brien but find him unlistenable now. He hardly takes any callers cos he just goes on and on, mostly about Brexit.

Lbc was great about ten years ago - quizzes, light hearted shows, specialist shows like travel, cooking or showbiz.
Its mostly all Brexit now

I think talkRADIO is more varied now. I do remember the old LBC you speak of.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

BBC Radio London for me....

Not all talk all day, but a fair bit.

 

[skyscraper101]

Brexit has kind of killed speech radio for me.

Steve Allen doesn't do Brexit which is quite refreshing for LBC. His thing is slagging off Z list celebrities off reality TV.

 

[ruffneck23]

Used to listen to LBC loads ( About 5-10 years ago ), but apart from J OB and Nick Abbot on Friday and Saturday nights ( Which i still listen to live or on catch up ( NA , not JOB) , its basically the Daily Mail on Radio , Nick Ferrari makes me change channels in the morning before I get too angry.

not sure where they get their callers though

They also gave Katie Hopkins her own show ffs

 

[Ted Striker]

Why tf would you bother with Steve Allen? Awful, awful man/show/voice!

 

[Ted Striker]

J O'B will one day die of his own smugness, but if I don't want to be challenged politically (I agree with him on most stuff ) I'll stick him on in the mornings.

 

[skyscraper101]

They also gave Katie Hopkins her own show ffs

Funniest moment in all of that was when Russell Brand hijacked it for the lol

 

[Spymaster]

Used to listen to LBC loads ( About 5-10 years ago ), but apart from J OB and Nick Abbot on Friday and Saturday nights ( Which i still listen to live or on catch up ( NA , not JOB) , its basically the Daily Mail on Radio , Nick Ferrari makes me change channels in the morning before I get too angry.

not sure where they get their callers though

They also gave Katie Hopkins her own show ffs

The entire point of LBC's mainline attack is to wind-up listeners and be controversial. O'Brien annoys right wingers, Ferrari pisses lefties off, and Farage (and the fuckwits who phone in to support him) gets on everyone's tits. It's a radio station, not a love-in channel. Katie Hopkins was great for them until they had to sack her. The rest of them, with the exception of the excellent Madjid Nawaz (who should run for Mayor of London) and marginally Sheila Fogarty, are just sops designed to appeal to the mainstream of their time-slots.

 

[skyscraper101]

The entire point of LBC's mainline attack is to wind-up listeners and be controversial. O'Brien annoys right wingers, Ferrari pisses lefties off, and Farage gets on everyone's tits. It's a radio station, not a love-in channel. Katie Hopkins was great for them until they had to sack her. The rest of them, with the exception of the excellent Madjid Nawaz (who should run for Mayor of London) and marginally Sheila Fogarty, are just sops designed to appeal to the mainstream of their time-slots.

Sometimes I actually miss some of the madder shows they used to have. Like Iain Lee, who had some serious odd people who used to just ring in to sing down the phone. I think he's on Talk now, but haven't really listened to him these days.

 

[oryx]

I listen to LBC quite a bit these days (know thine enemy and all that, as three quarters of the people who phone in are rabid brexiters or Johnson supporters).

It reminds me of a story that was on something I saw about MEPs, can't remember if it was a TV programme or a clip on the BBC website.

An MEP said she heard a story on a radio station about the use of metric measurements becoming law in the UK, and phoned the radio station to query this. They said 'Oh, we know it isn't, but it'll get a lot of people phoning in!'.

LBC is quite compelling listening, though I hate the ads. I'm not really used to commercial radio as until recently I only listened to Radio 6 and Radio London (occasionally 4 and 5).

 

[D'wards]

Steve Allen doesn't do Brexit which is quite refreshing for LBC. His thing is slagging off Z list celebrities off reality TV.

Who does he hate most? Katie Price I reckon. Gemma Collins too. He despises Iain Lee, formally of his parish.
Although this morning Markle was getting it big style from him.

 

[skyscraper101]

Who does he hate most? Katie Price I reckon. Gemma Collins too. He despises Iain Lee, formally of his parish.
Although this morning Markle was getting it big style from him.

Katie Price definitely up there. And anyone on Love Island or Big Brother etc. I've never heard him speak about Iain Lee. What's the beef there?

I like him a lot when he starts slagging vacuous reality show contestants, but then he also often comes over as a cunt too when he gets on the moral high ground brandishing anybody who has so much as sparked up a joint as 'druggies' or 'crims' because he's so obviously such a straight-living old queen.

 

[Ranbay]

LBC but hate it

 

[butchersapron]

These both sound great.

 

[ChrisC]

Sometimes I actually miss some of the madder shows they used to have. Like Iain Lee, who had some serious odd people who used to just ring in to sing down the phone. I think he's on Talk now, but haven't really listened to him these days.

He is on talkRADIO 10pm until 1am week nights.

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[T & P]

Don't know about TalkRadio, but LBC appears to consist of 75% right-wing presenters including a couple of odious fucking cunts (Messrs Farage and Ferrari), with a similar percentage breakdown of callers, so I am at a loss to understand how anyone could enjoy listen to it regularly, unless they enjoy having high blood pressure and arriving at work every morning wishing a meteorite would wipe us all out.

 

[oryx]

Don't know about TalkRadio, but LBC appears to consist of 75% right-wing presenters including a couple of odious fucking cunts (Messrs Farage and Ferrari), with a similar percentage breakdown of callers, so I am at a loss to understand how anyone could enjoy listen to it regularly, unless they enjoy having high blood pressure and arriving at work every morning wishing a meteorite would wipe us all out.

I enjoy it, but I know what you mean!

 

[Rivendelboy]

I love speech radio. What's the preference on here if you had to choose between talkRADIO or LBC. I used to love LBC, but I think the format is growing tiresome now. So I prefer the banter on talkRADIO. Unlike LBC's quick fire phone in's. With talkRADIO they allow callers much more time. Also sometimes it's not about the callers at all. Sometimes they have guest's. I particularly like The Unexplained with Howard Hughes. Much more variety.

fucking hell, neither. I love speech radio and if anyone knows a recommendation that isn't either of these awful stations with neither of those awful hosts...PLEASE!

 

[SpookyFrank]

Both are dreadful.

 

[Rivendelboy]

J O'B will one day die of his own smugness, but if I don't want to be challenged politically (I agree with him on most stuff ) I'll stick him on in the mornings.

If he hasn't died of it by now I suspect he never will, he's past the event horizon.

He's a fucking awful interlocutor who relies on utter fallacy and piss poor argumentation which is a shame because he does it to expose even more arseholesque arsholes.

 

[T & P]

fucking hell, neither. I love speech radio and if anyone knows a recommendation that isn't either of these awful stations with neither of those awful hosts...PLEASE!

BBC Radio 4 is easily the best speech radio station in the world, though it has little content in the way of call-in programmes.

BBC Radio 5 is the closest BBC equivalent of the two stations mentioned in the OP. Call-in programmes are not my thing but if they were BBC R5 would certainly be my choice.