What has got my ire up this evening is that James Whale, the greatest talk jock in the country, has left LBC at the end of his contract. Are these people mad?

Why is both music radio and talk radio in this country so bland and dull? Are they all scared stiff of OFCOM?

The best thing talk radio could do is to concentrate on professionals who can discuss things in a thoughtful and entertaining way. As it is talk radio is just one long phone in, and if I wanted to listen a succession of white van drivers, elderly cat owners, drunks and dullards spouting nonsense I could find them out and about easily enough, alas. Admittedly Whale is one of the best at playing the shameless gainsayer, but surely few want something that predictable these days?

steveimp wrote:
What has got my ire up this evening is that James Whale, the greatest talk jock in the country, has left LBC at the end of his contract. Are these people mad?

Why is both music radio and talk radio in this country so bland and dull? Are they all scared stiff of OFCOM?
Independant Radio are only interested in advertising revenue & making money. They don't give s fig about any sensible listener.

I miss Tommy Boyd on TalkRadio. Not everyones cup of tea, but I like him........................showing my age though

They dont play enough music - and talk too much !!!

I used to love Talk Radio in its first incarnation. I remember listening to JK in the mornings as a lazy student. It was a great station until they turned it into TalkSport, but it still had people like Mike Dickin and James Whale. Now that Ian Collins has gone it seems to be totally sports related.
Tommy Boyd has all but dissappeared now. Its a shame he used to pop up everywhere. Last time I heard him was on Radio Sussex on late nights at the weekend. With local radio, this is traditionally a slot where lonely old grannies phoned in to witter on and chat up the DJ. Needless to say there was a blue-rinse revolution when Boyd injected his irreverant banter and human zoo feature and he didnt last long.

Foz wrote:
I used to love Talk Radio in its first incarnation. I remember listening to JK in the mornings as a lazy student. It was a great station until they turned it into TalkSport, but it still had people like Mike Dickin and James Whale. Now that Ian Collins has gone it seems to be totally sports related.
Tommy Boyd has all but dissappeared now. Its a shame he used to pop up everywhere. Last time I heard him was on Radio Sussex on late nights at the weekend. With local radio, this is traditionally a slot where lonely old grannies phoned in to witter on and chat up the DJ. Needless to say there was a blue-rinse revolution when Boyd injected his irreverant banter and human zoo feature and he didnt last long.

I remember hearing Boyd one night on TalkSport or whatever it was called in those days. He was just talking with a succession of (mainly horribly bigoted) idiots who phoned in, and he wasn't disguising the fact that HE thought they were idiots, yet he didn't seem to think there was anything frustrating or depressing about him spending every night talking to them. I think that was his problem. What was the point? He didn't really care, so he got sloppier and sloppier, then a mistake happened and he'd get the boot - repeat ad infinitum throughout his radio career. His tragedy seemed to be he was just bright enough to realise how stupid this field of broadcasting usually is, whereas the ones who really flourish (see, for example, astounding dweebs such as Adrian Durham) are so stupid they think they're working in a field of which to be proud.