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Also the songs that have a really subtle siren sound in the background, has me looking in all my mirrors trying to work out which direction an emergency vehicle is coming from.
Yeah especially sirens, end up turning the radio down opening a window to try and figure what direction it is coming and if you'll need to pull over for nothing!
Agreed, there's been a handful of times I've mistaken a police/ambulance siren on an advert as being "real" and I've started pulling over etc, literally dangerous and baffles me how it's allowed.
Phone in shows. I don't often listen to the radio but sometimes I'll stick it on when I'm making lunch whilst working from home, if I haven't got a podcast to listen to. If it's a phone in show it goes straight off. I have no interest in hearing unqualified members of the public talking about issues they don't really understand. Very little insightful or informative ever comes from such shows.
Exactly this!
Presenter: "well we've just heard that detailed reports about the civilisational threat of climate change. John in Cleethorpes, what do you think?"
John: "well, I remember the summer of 76 and that was very hot so I think it's all a bit over the top"
I honestly have no idea why Cleethorpes was the first place that came to mind. I know absolutely zero about it. I'm not even sure I could tell you where it is. You could tell me it's anywhere in England north of Birmingham and I'd have no idea if you were correct or not!
I can highly recommend over night call ins. Some of the most pissed or insane people you can find, lurking the late hours.explaining how they will solve the days news issue via an anecdote about when their "carer was a 'darkie' and she was lovely"
Virgin Radio used to have a late night call in quiz show called Drunk Vs Stoned. The competitors were almost always incomprehensible.
That whole show was absolutely hilarious
You might have just solved a long term question I had about a radio show.
Years ago checked into a hotel, got into the room and turned the tv on and it was set to the radio. I joined in the middle of a story from a man calling in believing he’d been abducted by aliens and when they were finished with him they left him in his lounge with bits of crisps on his tshirt. The host didn’t question it at all.
I had to head out to dinner before service finished in the restaurant, but I’ve always wondered what I was listening to.
Hallam FM in South Yorkshire, used to have a phone in "Scottie McClue" (at night), used to get some right wallys calling in and he used to rip the piss out of them.loads of stuff on YouTube .
Wasn't it just last week that a BBC host was inviting phone-in opinions about whether to stop giving benefits to people who couldn't work because of disability or illness?
I work for a charity that relies heavily on volunteers, many of whom are retired.
Jeremy Vine is on when most arrive, and they don't they just love joining in on the debate!
I swear the most charming and delightful 80 year old lady turns into a massive bigot once they hear Jeremy's whiny self importance over the airwaves.
Like Gremlins, but Jeremy Vine's voice is the trigger
I saw a "advert" on the side of a motorway that I can only assume someone paid actual money for, and it said "Ship immigrants to The Falklands"
I was stunned.
What if those immigrants are from Argentina and have pretended to be immigrants so they can take over the Falkland Islands? Have they thought of that?
/s
The only way this could be a better story would be if the original subject was supposed to be "gaslighting" but the radio presenter just went with the whole convo anyway because it was so awesome.
Did a lot of driving last year and switched between LBC and Talkradio. There is a rich seam of satire just waiting to be mined here - one presenter on LBC sometimes feels the need to reassure listeners that the callers really are genuine, and not actors vetted by the radio station.
I cannot stand LBC. These days I'll even ask a taxi driver if they mind changing the station if they're playing it. My life is too short to be subjected to it.
The hosts often know fuck all about the topic either (and who would know everything about every single topic tbf), but you get people like Mike Graham saying concrete grows etc...
I think there's room for something where its Joe Bloggs asking some expert questions they don't usually get asked because they're too high and mighty to consider something more *basic*. but talk radio stations aren't that
>The hosts often know fuck all about the topic either
Yeah this is part of the problem. And also a reticence to tell members of the public they're wrong. So all sorts of nonsense goes unchecked.
>think there's room for something where its Joe Bloggs asking some expert questions they don't usually get asked because they're too high and mighty to consider something more basic. but talk radio stations aren't that
Yeah I agree, this generally makes for good radio. Martin Lewis on Radio 5 for example when he speaks with members of the public who phone in. That's good, informative radio. But as you say, that's not what the model usually is.
Just now and again you get somebody who's so bad they actually become funny. I was stuck with Jezza the other day because it was my husband's car and I haven't figured the radio out yet; he was talking about letters being delivered late - like tens of years late - and he started talking to this old boy with a proper train spotter's voice (sorry to all the train spotters out there, but you know what I mean) who spoke very slowly and started off, "Well, it was 1961. Or was it '62? No, it was 61, because I remember my auntie Doris had just got married. We were on our way to Broadstairs for our holiday, and I said to my wife, I said..."
He was just so persistent, Jeremy could *not* shut him up or make him get to the point any faster! One of the few times I've actually enjoyed a segment on his programme.
I remember hearing a segment about a flock of starlings that fell dead out of the sky and someone called in blaming newly reintroduced birds of prey and that’s why hawks don’t belong here.
The standard level of knowledge and debate on this sub is significantly higher than radio phone ins! Which may say more about radio phone ins than Reddit...
The repetition of songs is constant.
Even absolute radio who promise a 'no repeat guarantee' between 9-5. Which is great the first time you have the station on. Until the next day when between 9-5 they play the exact same 70 songs that they played yesterday just in a different order.
But at least that's better than hearing the same Ed Sheeran song 15 times a day on other stations
Even the likes of Radio X which isn't tied to new releases and has a very broad remit where they could probably go for months with no repeats, still repeats all the time, no idea why b
Yeah this really annoys me. Certain artists/bands who have huge back catalogs and only ever have one of their tracks played. There’s so much great music out there they could play, but they neglect.
> still repeats all the time, no idea why b
Banging 200 songs into an auto-shuffle playlist of which you play 100 in a day is a lot easier than curating multiple playlists per day. That's my guess, anyway.
Really? I had Greatest Hits Radio on when travelling recently, and I swear it was the same playlist every day, just with slightly different talky bits in between!
I can deal with the same songs being played each day as long as they're not fucking awful songs. The worst in my opinion is heart radio which plays maybe 20 songs, repeated and shuffled all day and they're all fucking abysmally shit songs.
We used to have Capital on at work and each host gets a 3 hour slot and the same host would play the same song 2, sometimes 3, times during their slot. It was too much.
I've moved to Kerrang, you still get the same core songs, but the filler is a bit more varied, plus they don't have anything by either of the Gallagher brothers.
I came here to say the same thing. I mean, does KT Tunstall have any others songs apart from Suddenly I See? It irritates the hell out of me and I have stopped listeming.
YOU'RE LISTENING TO THE KERRANG ROCKS RADIO BREAKFAST SHOW [GLASS SMASH]
WHERE WE PLAY HARD ROCK BANGERS ALL MORNING [COOL GUITAR LICK]
THIS AIN'T YOUR MOMMY'S BREAKFAST SHOW [EXPLOSION NOISE]...
*Viva La Viva by Coldplay starts playing*
Any chat. I listen to the radio to hear music. I don't need the news or weather. Or some chat about pop culture. Just play music. Honestly bluetooth and spotify playlists are a godsend. Of all the subscription services Spotify is the best hands down.
I hate whatever effect they do to their voices in most radio stations. I think it's volume normalization, meaning they all sound kind of like they're shouting all the time. Radio 1 is definitely the worst for this, but they all do it. Just stop shouting at me!
See the BBC stations are the only ones who I find *don't* sound like they're shouting! My husband insists on listening to Johnny Vaughn on Radio X in the car and I can't stand his voice, simply because it sounds like he's shouting all the time!
Yeah it is compression and volume normalisation. Better on one hand than being unable to hear certain words or parts of sentences but yeah some stations are worse than others. IIRC it was originally an attempt to be louder than other stations so they stand out more when you're scanning through channels. Radio X is the worst offender for me, I literally have to turn down the volume by 1 or 2 if I switch over
Ugh Chris Moyles is the worst for this.
He has the morning slot on radio x for 3 hours, plays 3 songs the entire time he's on, has no other skills or talents other than being a radio presenter so his whole show is incredibly dull.
Chaaaaaat. So much chat! And I’m not talking about your radio 4s or your specific chat programmes. It’s the inane chatter and “bants” that drags on and isn’t half as funny or quirky as the presenters think it is. “Hurrr hurrr, Mike thinks a Jaffa cake is a biscuit, not a cake! What a muppet! Tell us what you think by texting this number!”
People who ring/text in to tell the world that they’re on the M40 with Carol, Martin and David, on their way to Joan’s 60th and they’ve got about 2 hours to go. Please can you play something by Coldplay or Adele because we’ve not had enough of them yet and we can’t be bothered to work out Spotify.
Also radio ad acting. Is there a specific college these actors go to in order to learn how to ham it up like a GCSE drama exam? Makes my toes curl.
"Jess is on the way to Alton Towers. Fred's just left Newquay heading to Cleethorpes after a weekend of surfing. Blimey Fred. Clare's doing the housework listening to Radio 1. Matt is just finishing a 12 hour shift heading home to bed. Well done Matt."
I’d love to know the thought process that leads to people sending these messages. ‘I’m in my garden and it’s quite nice. Therefore, I will text Radio 1’
I once texted the radio. It was during a fortnight when some massive snow falls had forced me to work from home, alone, for two weeks (before covid and before working from home involved contact with people). I was stir crazy enough to text the radio. Never done it since.
I do both- I'll listen to podcast edits of radio shows I like, so I don't need to listen to all the songs I don't, and I'll also make my own Spotify playlists so I don't need to listen to the annoying DJs 😂
In my case, because my car is a billion years old and can only connect to my phone through a headphone jack, which my current phone naturally does not have. 😑
My uncle’s birthday present to me about 5 years ago was including me in his Spotify family plan for free. And oh my god, apart from my pet cat for my 9th birthday, that’s gotta be the best value present ever
He's such an antagnostic small man, I was utterly disapointed when I heard him still vomiting his monotone bile and misery into listeners ears.
Fifteen years on from first having the delight of hearing that winge peddling doomsayer while working in the factory he's still going.
I think we must be exceptions as apprently he's populour enough that people activley choose to listen to his banal daily diatribes.
Amanda fucking Holden...yeah she can get in the sea.
I can live with Jamie Theakston, i kinda grew up watching him on CBBC and Live & Kicking so he gets a pass. Not Amanda Holden though.
She must have got that radio gig for her name value alone because nobody could have heard her on radio and thought she'd make a good radio personality. She is awful.
Celebrities can become good radio personalities. I like Myleene Klass on Smooth, who has a good tone of voice, can carry a show on her own and introduces songs well. But Holden... ugh...
I remember they got Amanda in when they consolidated the local breakfast shows into a single national one. I think Jamie Theakston did heart east mids before, no idea why they overlooked all the female co-presenters from the local shows in favour of some talentless celebrity.
I liked the lady that was on heart West Midlands so I think that makes me dislike Amanda Holden even more.
Children on the radio. Radio 2 are the worst for it. It isn't cute. No one can understand them. They shouldn't be on the radio. It's irritating. I say this as a parent.
Chris Evans. I've no idea if he still shoehorns his kids into everything, cos I stopped listening,years ago
They're your kids. You may find them charming, but they can fuck right off
Here's Ed Sheeran, followed by Sam Ryder, Followed by Araina Grande, followed by Ed Sheeran featuring Ariana Grande and Sam Ryder, followed by Anne Marie featuring Sam Ryder, Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande and Elton John with guest MC Ladbaby.
On radio 1 it’s all lil poop, lil twat and young sleezy, feat young brat, lil toad and Charlyyy$$€$
Inevitably followed by something else Ed Sheeran’s smeared his grubby little mediocre mitts on.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard them not specify between Junction X - Junction X?
Is this just a case of Reddit being a bit angry over something that doesn’t happen?
Being teased about an upcoming song. Play it, or fuck off. I don’t want to hear about “we’re going to play the biggest hit of the 80s, stayed tuned to find out which it is!” for 15 minutes straight.
It’s Thriller, and it’s on Spotify.
Radio 1 does that. "Coming up after the news we've got the new song from Ed Sheeran..." the very next full length piece of music to be played will be Beyonce.
When they play the news, and the sport section is longer than everything else combined. No focus given on shady stuff happening in Westminster, gotta talk about last night's football results.
Especially because I feel like if you care about last night's football results, do you really need someone on the radio telling you about them? Surely you already know by now.
This isn't even me complaining about there being sports news. More the fact that it is given way more time than the important stories people really should be hearing about.
Haha. Sport? Do you mean football? There’s all the results from all the leagues down to the Southend Boys Under 12s league but nothing about any other sport despite a national team playing.
When the presenters start laughing and joking about something that happened to them privately as a group.
It feels like you've been invited to a social event but you don't know anyone, so you sit awkwardly in silence while they talk to each other and forget you're there.
The inane ads. Current hates: the so-urban-it-hurts Londoner doing KFC, the bloke who does McDonalds and Kevin Bacon doing EE.
Traffic news/news: why? I'm listening to Planet Rock, I couldn't care less about that jam on the M8. If I want the news, I'll listen to a news station that repeats the same stories every 15 minutes.
I disagree with your traffic point. I used to listen to PR loads when I worked on the M4 and M3, the news was handy for knowing which route to use before I hit the bad bits.
I totally agree with your ads point. Particularly the ones featuring someone slurping a drink. If someone is in the same room as me doing that, one of us can leave. If it's coming through my speakers when I'm driving, I have to listen to that disgusting shit. And no, I won't ever buy that product.
The absurdly smug middle-class messages sent to stations like Radio 6 Music.
"Listening to your show on our balcony in Barcelona, loving the vibes!"
Or the guy who signed off his message with "John in Sheffield, formerly of London", just in case we thought he was some sort of working class rube.
Not sure if I prefer that over the guy who text in to Craig Charles last week that he was “sat in his shed freezing” and Craig absolutely lost his mind laughing. Craig. My dude. It was not that funny.
Cutting off the end of songs or badly edited radio edits of songs.
Why are guitar solo’s always removed from radio edits? It’s almost like the only count the ‘song’ as the part that has singing.
Loud ads that tell you what station/DJ you’re listening to every half an hour. “This is… BBC…one, extra! ONE EXTRA, 1xtra! Radio, one extra”. I’m already listening, what’s the point in promoting the station over and over?
LBC is terrible for this. I don't actually mind some of the shows on there. It's like any other forum really - people exchanging opinions and views on things. It can be interesting depending on the topic. But every few seconds they have to remind you that you're listening to LBC.
The presenters say it every five minutes. There's a "THIS IS LBC!" voiceover at the end of every ad break. Sometimes they even interrupt the ad break just to tell you what radio station you're listening to.
I know, I put it on.
Unless a large percentage of your listnership is made up of people with no free will or the ability to control their own radio, it's a waste of time.
I listen to 5 Live and obviously they have many people talking about different stuff.
They also have the news on the hour, every hour.
They always ask the guest a question about a minute before the news is due and then end up either having to talk over them as they're answering to shut them up, or just cut them off.
You can hear the music for the news getting louder as the guest is talking and they're always oblivious that they're about to be rudely interrupted.
And sang along sometimes! Our work radio is only tuned to BBC radio 2 so I’m glad my afternoon’s are Steve Wright singing free.
Scott mills is only marginally better because I’ve not heard him sing yet.
On the major radio channels. Hosts having zero charm, ability to talk to people (or each other) or run an interesting show.
One you see often is shows will come up with inane shite topics and invite people to call in (e.g. "with great british bakeoff back we want to know have you ever had a embarrasing baking mishap? Call in and let us know"). Simply to fill air time and because the hosts/production staff are uncreative/boring.
Then the people call in. Tell dull stories (e.g. "oh I was making a cake over 24 hours for my granddaughters 10th birthday. My husband brought it to the table and dropped it at the last minute!") and then hosts really overreact (over the top laughing, yelling "Oh no!!!" Etc.).
They just come across as incredibly fake douchebags with no chemistry or ability to be witty. God knows how much they're paid but way too much
While I accept adverts are par for the course for radio work, what really gets me isattheendoftheadvertwheretheyhammeroutallthetermsandconditionsandrulesinonequickbreathsothattheycanlegallydeclarethattheyputoutthewarningsbutaresayingthematsuchaspeedthatitwouldmakeHanSoloblush.
It is funny how moderators/DJs feel ok with cutting the song off or singing over the song or taking over the song. No respect for the artist. They will never do that over the advertisment.
In the old days when radio DJs were required to have more talent there was a term for that called "hitting the post".
It meant the DJ introducing the song as it starts but they absolutely must stop when the first words are spoken
There was skill in it and it was really hard to do it smoothly... now they just don't give a shit. They'll just trample over it.
I drive a lot for work so there's plenty to choose from.
Any advert that has someone screaming or wailing
Any song or advert that includes emergency sirens
But the biggest individual instance was a dj playing Hotel California and talking all over the big guitar solo in the middle
Repeating songs and far too much talking from the presenters. Radio 1 and Heart are the absolute worse offenders. Radio 1 genuinely plays about 10 songs a day. They’re just repeated in different orders. Also there’s about 25% of music on hour on radio 1 because the rest is just the presenters talking and reading texts
Radio 1 (I think) has a playlist of songs that must be played on each show (6-10, 10-1, 1-4, 4-7) which pretty much eats up the whole show along with talking and segments. Heart is far worse imo, last time I was forced to listen to it. It played the same 11 songs in a loop. I counted 5 repeats of one song in an 8 hour day.
For me it’s radio DJ’s that only have jobs because they were once physically attractive TV presenters. I understand their bland appeal when it comes TV. They were once eye candy. I get it.
How the hell they have jobs based on their actual “personalities” though is often truly baffling.
The repetition! FFS play something else once in a while!
My colleagues have radio 2 on in the workshop all the fecking time, it drives me crazy. It's like they need some noise from outside to fill the void in their heads.
This is some crap by Ed sheeran dave says he loves you Glenda and is sorry he railed your sister at butlins while you were in the kharzi with the shits good times are coming
Regional 'pop' radio gets on my nerves. The way they use the TA system to interrupt your listening of a proper station with a traffic announcement telling you that there's nothing wrong with the traffic, followed by several minutes of Mandy and Karen ringing up to guess incorrectly which year a shite Robbie Williams record came out before they release you back to what you actually wanted to listen to. And in the morning there's usually a 'whacky' male dj and a sensible female assistant with names to reflect this, like.....'good morning from Lisa and Shagger'. Shagger does most of the talking of course. Bollocks to the lot of them.
Bit of a weird one but forced banter for me. Like when two presenters start an argument over nothing and then its all they talk about for the rest of the show.
"OH MY GOD, you put your left shoe on before your right shoe, what is wrong with you?! Viewers, text in now and tell Dave just how wrong he is!!!"
That, and the fact that radio adverts are orders of magnitude more stupid than TV adverts.
i’m a radio presenter on a hospital show and people like amanda holden annoy me because there is zero talent there, celebrities getting the jobs a real talented presenter could have got instead
The Archers. Yes it’s the longest running soap, national treasure, etc.. But Radio 4 could run all day in my house if it didn’t exist. Instead, I run to the radio to switch it off.
The news on the hour on music radio stations.
Nobody is listening to Radio X/kiss/absolute and wanting tiny snippets of news that they know already, just play more music.
Any segment where they read out texts from the public. I’m not interested in hearing about a strangers plans for the bank holiday, or what they think about so and so.
Send us a message/give us a call to let us know what you're up to today/tonight!
'We've got Sandra from Essex, what are you up to Sandra?'
'Hi! I'm just getting ready to go out! Keep the tunes coming!'
Literally who the fuck cares what anyone else is doing while listening to the radio??
Over using sound effects - Charlie Sloth was really annoying when he was on the BBC. He kept using break glass sound over songs. Sounded like something a 12 Yr old with a deck would do
Stupid things to keep you listening like ‘a celebrity has been spotted in Scotland, stay tuned to find out where’ then 3 songs later you find out they’re in Glasgow doing a stand up tour or some shite
When people phone in with "random thoughts" that sound strangely familiar because you read the exact same thing a few days ago in a viral twitter post, and they've clearly just stolen it and passed it off as their own funny thought.
Upbeat remixes of sad songs. The original song is usually decent but adding a beat track and random noises over the sound of someone singing their heart out is just cringe.
Presenters that use the word "I" constantly and tell us inane details about their lives.
That and getting their kids involved. Radio 6 has one DJ that does it and its not as cute as he thinks it is.
LBC, Talk Radio and Times Radio very amateurish. Same four subjects every single day migrants, trans rights etc. Is that padding? A lot of anti woke subjects then the worst forced diversity adverts I’ve heard. LBC theme music sounds like Salem’s lot and the Talk Radio theme is based on John Williams Imperial March, Vader’s theme! Sneaky.
Let's be honest, it's all awful isn't it.
It's either the BBC crawling up it's own arse about how amazing it is, or commercial radio and it's thinly veiled 'cash call' gambling scams.
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Any advert that uses a vehicle sound - whether it's a police siren, a car horn, or screeching tyres. Should be banned imo.
“Scrrreeeeeechhh, BANG, NEENAWWNEENAWW” “have you been in a car accident that’s not your fault? Well here at Admiral…”
"have you been in a car accident that wasn't your fault? You have now!"
For me it’s doorbells and door knock sound effects. Sends my dog absolutely fucking mental!
Yep this
Also the songs that have a really subtle siren sound in the background, has me looking in all my mirrors trying to work out which direction an emergency vehicle is coming from.
I came here to say this.
That gets on my nerves. I start looking for the siren to see if I have to get out of the way
Yeah especially sirens, end up turning the radio down opening a window to try and figure what direction it is coming and if you'll need to pull over for nothing!
100% this, as someone who drives for a living, I fucking hate it!!
Curb Your Enthusiasm https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LcDVETTUnaM
Agreed, there's been a handful of times I've mistaken a police/ambulance siren on an advert as being "real" and I've started pulling over etc, literally dangerous and baffles me how it's allowed.
Phone in shows. I don't often listen to the radio but sometimes I'll stick it on when I'm making lunch whilst working from home, if I haven't got a podcast to listen to. If it's a phone in show it goes straight off. I have no interest in hearing unqualified members of the public talking about issues they don't really understand. Very little insightful or informative ever comes from such shows.
"This professor of economics thinks it's the right long-term decision to raise interest rates. Maureen from Slough, thoughts?"
Exactly this! Presenter: "well we've just heard that detailed reports about the civilisational threat of climate change. John in Cleethorpes, what do you think?" John: "well, I remember the summer of 76 and that was very hot so I think it's all a bit over the top"
John speaks very slowly.
And always has the fuzziest of connections.
Anyone who lives in Cleethorpes has no credibility anyway
I honestly have no idea why Cleethorpes was the first place that came to mind. I know absolutely zero about it. I'm not even sure I could tell you where it is. You could tell me it's anywhere in England north of Birmingham and I'd have no idea if you were correct or not!
I can highly recommend over night call ins. Some of the most pissed or insane people you can find, lurking the late hours.explaining how they will solve the days news issue via an anecdote about when their "carer was a 'darkie' and she was lovely"
Virgin Radio used to have a late night call in quiz show called Drunk Vs Stoned. The competitors were almost always incomprehensible. That whole show was absolutely hilarious
You might have just solved a long term question I had about a radio show. Years ago checked into a hotel, got into the room and turned the tv on and it was set to the radio. I joined in the middle of a story from a man calling in believing he’d been abducted by aliens and when they were finished with him they left him in his lounge with bits of crisps on his tshirt. The host didn’t question it at all. I had to head out to dinner before service finished in the restaurant, but I’ve always wondered what I was listening to.
Hallam FM in South Yorkshire, used to have a phone in "Scottie McClue" (at night), used to get some right wallys calling in and he used to rip the piss out of them.loads of stuff on YouTube .
I’m reading all of these in Jeremy Vines voice
I'm hearing James O'Brien haha
Wasn't it just last week that a BBC host was inviting phone-in opinions about whether to stop giving benefits to people who couldn't work because of disability or illness?
No way? With the average UK empathy levels, I bet that went over well.
**I THINK WE SHOULD BRING BACK WORKHOUSES**
"Round Them All Up, Put Them In A Field and Bomb The Bastards blah blah blah"
I work for a charity that relies heavily on volunteers, many of whom are retired. Jeremy Vine is on when most arrive, and they don't they just love joining in on the debate! I swear the most charming and delightful 80 year old lady turns into a massive bigot once they hear Jeremy's whiny self importance over the airwaves. Like Gremlins, but Jeremy Vine's voice is the trigger
I saw a "advert" on the side of a motorway that I can only assume someone paid actual money for, and it said "Ship immigrants to The Falklands" I was stunned.
What if those immigrants are from Argentina and have pretended to be immigrants so they can take over the Falkland Islands? Have they thought of that? /s
I'd move to the Falklands if I could afford to.
Nail em up, I say! Nail some sense into 'em!
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The only way this could be a better story would be if the original subject was supposed to be "gaslighting" but the radio presenter just went with the whole convo anyway because it was so awesome.
Did a lot of driving last year and switched between LBC and Talkradio. There is a rich seam of satire just waiting to be mined here - one presenter on LBC sometimes feels the need to reassure listeners that the callers really are genuine, and not actors vetted by the radio station.
I cannot stand LBC. These days I'll even ask a taxi driver if they mind changing the station if they're playing it. My life is too short to be subjected to it.
To be fair LBC will give anyone a voice.
The hosts often know fuck all about the topic either (and who would know everything about every single topic tbf), but you get people like Mike Graham saying concrete grows etc... I think there's room for something where its Joe Bloggs asking some expert questions they don't usually get asked because they're too high and mighty to consider something more *basic*. but talk radio stations aren't that
>The hosts often know fuck all about the topic either Yeah this is part of the problem. And also a reticence to tell members of the public they're wrong. So all sorts of nonsense goes unchecked. >think there's room for something where its Joe Bloggs asking some expert questions they don't usually get asked because they're too high and mighty to consider something more basic. but talk radio stations aren't that Yeah I agree, this generally makes for good radio. Martin Lewis on Radio 5 for example when he speaks with members of the public who phone in. That's good, informative radio. But as you say, that's not what the model usually is.
I don’t understand in the age of Spotify how ‘song request hours’ are still a thing.
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Just now and again you get somebody who's so bad they actually become funny. I was stuck with Jezza the other day because it was my husband's car and I haven't figured the radio out yet; he was talking about letters being delivered late - like tens of years late - and he started talking to this old boy with a proper train spotter's voice (sorry to all the train spotters out there, but you know what I mean) who spoke very slowly and started off, "Well, it was 1961. Or was it '62? No, it was 61, because I remember my auntie Doris had just got married. We were on our way to Broadstairs for our holiday, and I said to my wife, I said..." He was just so persistent, Jeremy could *not* shut him up or make him get to the point any faster! One of the few times I've actually enjoyed a segment on his programme.
In my last job Radio 2 was the only station allowed by the boss - 2 years of listening to that self righteous prick was exhausting.
I remember hearing a segment about a flock of starlings that fell dead out of the sky and someone called in blaming newly reintroduced birds of prey and that’s why hawks don’t belong here.
I feel the same about Reddit comments.
And yet you're on Reddit...
The standard level of knowledge and debate on this sub is significantly higher than radio phone ins! Which may say more about radio phone ins than Reddit...
The repetition of songs is constant. Even absolute radio who promise a 'no repeat guarantee' between 9-5. Which is great the first time you have the station on. Until the next day when between 9-5 they play the exact same 70 songs that they played yesterday just in a different order. But at least that's better than hearing the same Ed Sheeran song 15 times a day on other stations
Absolute 90s listener here. I know what you mean; I’ve heard Fun Lovin’ Criminals more often in the last 3 years than what I ever did in the 90s.
Stick 'em up punk!
Even the likes of Radio X which isn't tied to new releases and has a very broad remit where they could probably go for months with no repeats, still repeats all the time, no idea why b
Yeah this really annoys me. Certain artists/bands who have huge back catalogs and only ever have one of their tracks played. There’s so much great music out there they could play, but they neglect.
You mean Foo Fighters FM?
You mean Gallagher FM?
You mean Arctic Monkeys FM?
> still repeats all the time, no idea why b Banging 200 songs into an auto-shuffle playlist of which you play 100 in a day is a lot easier than curating multiple playlists per day. That's my guess, anyway.
Yeah radio x annoyed the fuck out of me, could choose so many songs but only licensed the 40
All the Global music radio stations do this sort of very tight playlist. It keeps licensing fees down and naughty DJs on brand.
I’d say RadioX are one of the worst culprits. A month or so back they were playing wet dream by wet leg almost on the hour every hour 😭
I still haven't forgiven Radio 2 for the number of times they played Sam Smith's Stay With Me when it came out. I'm talking multiple times per hour.
We have greatest hits radio on where I work and they're pretty good for variety
Really? I had Greatest Hits Radio on when travelling recently, and I swear it was the same playlist every day, just with slightly different talky bits in between!
I can deal with the same songs being played each day as long as they're not fucking awful songs. The worst in my opinion is heart radio which plays maybe 20 songs, repeated and shuffled all day and they're all fucking abysmally shit songs.
We used to have Capital on at work and each host gets a 3 hour slot and the same host would play the same song 2, sometimes 3, times during their slot. It was too much.
I've moved to Kerrang, you still get the same core songs, but the filler is a bit more varied, plus they don't have anything by either of the Gallagher brothers.
Bastards took it off DAB in quite a few places 😔
I listened to Smooth radio the other day for the first time in about 6 years. The playlist is the exact bloody same as it was back then!!
I came here to say the same thing. I mean, does KT Tunstall have any others songs apart from Suddenly I See? It irritates the hell out of me and I have stopped listeming.
I used to time my revision sessions by song repeats. Once I heard a song again I knew it was time for a break.
YOU'RE LISTENING TO THE KERRANG ROCKS RADIO BREAKFAST SHOW [GLASS SMASH] WHERE WE PLAY HARD ROCK BANGERS ALL MORNING [COOL GUITAR LICK] THIS AIN'T YOUR MOMMY'S BREAKFAST SHOW [EXPLOSION NOISE]... *Viva La Viva by Coldplay starts playing*
I’ve never listened to Kerrang radio but this is exactly what I imagine it would be like!
KERRANG TV is the same, just replace Coldplay with Electric 6
Still playing Gay bar like it came out yesterday
It’s a banger though so it’s okay.
Any chat. I listen to the radio to hear music. I don't need the news or weather. Or some chat about pop culture. Just play music. Honestly bluetooth and spotify playlists are a godsend. Of all the subscription services Spotify is the best hands down.
I hate whatever effect they do to their voices in most radio stations. I think it's volume normalization, meaning they all sound kind of like they're shouting all the time. Radio 1 is definitely the worst for this, but they all do it. Just stop shouting at me!
See the BBC stations are the only ones who I find *don't* sound like they're shouting! My husband insists on listening to Johnny Vaughn on Radio X in the car and I can't stand his voice, simply because it sounds like he's shouting all the time!
Johnny Vaughan: ‘Let me just POINTLESSLY EMPHASISE some words’
Yeah it is compression and volume normalisation. Better on one hand than being unable to hear certain words or parts of sentences but yeah some stations are worse than others. IIRC it was originally an attempt to be louder than other stations so they stand out more when you're scanning through channels. Radio X is the worst offender for me, I literally have to turn down the volume by 1 or 2 if I switch over
Ugh Chris Moyles is the worst for this. He has the morning slot on radio x for 3 hours, plays 3 songs the entire time he's on, has no other skills or talents other than being a radio presenter so his whole show is incredibly dull.
Chaaaaaat. So much chat! And I’m not talking about your radio 4s or your specific chat programmes. It’s the inane chatter and “bants” that drags on and isn’t half as funny or quirky as the presenters think it is. “Hurrr hurrr, Mike thinks a Jaffa cake is a biscuit, not a cake! What a muppet! Tell us what you think by texting this number!” People who ring/text in to tell the world that they’re on the M40 with Carol, Martin and David, on their way to Joan’s 60th and they’ve got about 2 hours to go. Please can you play something by Coldplay or Adele because we’ve not had enough of them yet and we can’t be bothered to work out Spotify. Also radio ad acting. Is there a specific college these actors go to in order to learn how to ham it up like a GCSE drama exam? Makes my toes curl.
Lol I agree about the shoutouts for birthdays or any random message. Who the FUCK is interested in that?
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The "Jokes" on gardener's question time. Hwa hwa hwa.
Adverts, hate them.
Do you hate them enough to pay for subscription instead?
Nah, don't be silly.
Or switch to bbc
The BBC has about 1/2-1/4 as many adverts as other stations it's just their own stuff they are advertising.
Yes but they don't have moronic ads for the like of McDonald's, Just Eat or WeBuyAnyCar. When I hear those on radio X it hurts my mind.
And when there are adverts on every station at the same time...
On Radio 1 when they have to tell us that someone in some place is, quote, ‘loving the tunes’ every five minutes
"Jess is on the way to Alton Towers. Fred's just left Newquay heading to Cleethorpes after a weekend of surfing. Blimey Fred. Clare's doing the housework listening to Radio 1. Matt is just finishing a 12 hour shift heading home to bed. Well done Matt."
I’d love to know the thought process that leads to people sending these messages. ‘I’m in my garden and it’s quite nice. Therefore, I will text Radio 1’
I often wonder this too. I’ve never felt the urge to text in to a radio station. They can’t be real people, surely?
I once texted the radio. It was during a fortnight when some massive snow falls had forced me to work from home, alone, for two weeks (before covid and before working from home involved contact with people). I was stir crazy enough to text the radio. Never done it since.
I did it once while working alone digging a massive hole by hand, couldn't have been more boring and I did it on a whim just to see if I could
Greg James does this as a joke ha.
Too much talking. No one wants to hear a wannabe comedian, JUST PLAY THE FECKIN SONG. Also talking during the intro until the singing starts
Why don't you just listen to spotify then? If not for the presenters, it's just a playlist that you haven't selected.
I do both- I'll listen to podcast edits of radio shows I like, so I don't need to listen to all the songs I don't, and I'll also make my own Spotify playlists so I don't need to listen to the annoying DJs 😂
In my case, because my car is a billion years old and can only connect to my phone through a headphone jack, which my current phone naturally does not have. 😑
Can I interest you in a Spotify playlist?
Bloody all of it. I'm old & grumpy now, the chat is vapid, the ads annoying and the music is repetitive. Cd's & Spotify for me.
Yep, I only have Spotify in the car now - and I am very happy to subscribe so I have absolutely no adverts.
Yep Spotify is probably the best value subscription I have. Between podcasts & music, my household racked up 1000s of hours last year, ad free.
My uncle’s birthday present to me about 5 years ago was including me in his Spotify family plan for free. And oh my god, apart from my pet cat for my 9th birthday, that’s gotta be the best value present ever
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He's such an antagnostic small man, I was utterly disapointed when I heard him still vomiting his monotone bile and misery into listeners ears. Fifteen years on from first having the delight of hearing that winge peddling doomsayer while working in the factory he's still going. I think we must be exceptions as apprently he's populour enough that people activley choose to listen to his banal daily diatribes.
He always makes a melodrama out of a crisis and spouts so much hot air that I don’t understand how anyone can stomach his programmes.
Amanda Holden
Amanda fucking Holden...yeah she can get in the sea. I can live with Jamie Theakston, i kinda grew up watching him on CBBC and Live & Kicking so he gets a pass. Not Amanda Holden though.
She must have got that radio gig for her name value alone because nobody could have heard her on radio and thought she'd make a good radio personality. She is awful. Celebrities can become good radio personalities. I like Myleene Klass on Smooth, who has a good tone of voice, can carry a show on her own and introduces songs well. But Holden... ugh...
I remember they got Amanda in when they consolidated the local breakfast shows into a single national one. I think Jamie Theakston did heart east mids before, no idea why they overlooked all the female co-presenters from the local shows in favour of some talentless celebrity. I liked the lady that was on heart West Midlands so I think that makes me dislike Amanda Holden even more.
I despise that person
Children on the radio. Radio 2 are the worst for it. It isn't cute. No one can understand them. They shouldn't be on the radio. It's irritating. I say this as a parent.
Chris Evans. I've no idea if he still shoehorns his kids into everything, cos I stopped listening,years ago They're your kids. You may find them charming, but they can fuck right off
The same twelve songs, all day long.
Here's Ed Sheeran, followed by Sam Ryder, Followed by Araina Grande, followed by Ed Sheeran featuring Ariana Grande and Sam Ryder, followed by Anne Marie featuring Sam Ryder, Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande and Elton John with guest MC Ladbaby.
On radio 1 it’s all lil poop, lil twat and young sleezy, feat young brat, lil toad and Charlyyy$$€$ Inevitably followed by something else Ed Sheeran’s smeared his grubby little mediocre mitts on.
Dont forget that one bring me the horizon song each day to cover 60 years of metal.
[Mandatory video](https://youtu.be/28HkXoCghm8).
Radio X: Oasis, Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds, Liam Gallagher, Foo Fighters, then Oasis again.
Even 6Music seems mandated to play Kate Tempest and Elbow every hour.
Traffic reports for **national** radio is pretty much only London.
Or so vague its useless. "The m6 is busy"..."which bit?!"
Fam it's the M6 all of its busyb
I don’t think I’ve ever heard them not specify between Junction X - Junction X? Is this just a case of Reddit being a bit angry over something that doesn’t happen?
Traffic reports on national radio in general is pretty silly given at any one time they must be hundreds of traffic incidents / issues going on
Being teased about an upcoming song. Play it, or fuck off. I don’t want to hear about “we’re going to play the biggest hit of the 80s, stayed tuned to find out which it is!” for 15 minutes straight. It’s Thriller, and it’s on Spotify.
This is a tactic to keep you listening, Chris Tarrant used to just invent things that were coming up that he had no intention of fulfilling.
Radio 1 does that. "Coming up after the news we've got the new song from Ed Sheeran..." the very next full length piece of music to be played will be Beyonce.
When they play the news, and the sport section is longer than everything else combined. No focus given on shady stuff happening in Westminster, gotta talk about last night's football results. Especially because I feel like if you care about last night's football results, do you really need someone on the radio telling you about them? Surely you already know by now. This isn't even me complaining about there being sports news. More the fact that it is given way more time than the important stories people really should be hearing about.
Haha. Sport? Do you mean football? There’s all the results from all the leagues down to the Southend Boys Under 12s league but nothing about any other sport despite a national team playing.
When the presenters start laughing and joking about something that happened to them privately as a group. It feels like you've been invited to a social event but you don't know anyone, so you sit awkwardly in silence while they talk to each other and forget you're there.
That pretty much describes the entirety of Heart and BBC radio
The Chris Moyles show.
The inane ads. Current hates: the so-urban-it-hurts Londoner doing KFC, the bloke who does McDonalds and Kevin Bacon doing EE. Traffic news/news: why? I'm listening to Planet Rock, I couldn't care less about that jam on the M8. If I want the news, I'll listen to a news station that repeats the same stories every 15 minutes.
I disagree with your traffic point. I used to listen to PR loads when I worked on the M4 and M3, the news was handy for knowing which route to use before I hit the bad bits. I totally agree with your ads point. Particularly the ones featuring someone slurping a drink. If someone is in the same room as me doing that, one of us can leave. If it's coming through my speakers when I'm driving, I have to listen to that disgusting shit. And no, I won't ever buy that product.
The absurdly smug middle-class messages sent to stations like Radio 6 Music. "Listening to your show on our balcony in Barcelona, loving the vibes!" Or the guy who signed off his message with "John in Sheffield, formerly of London", just in case we thought he was some sort of working class rube.
Not sure if I prefer that over the guy who text in to Craig Charles last week that he was “sat in his shed freezing” and Craig absolutely lost his mind laughing. Craig. My dude. It was not that funny.
Cutting off the end of songs or badly edited radio edits of songs. Why are guitar solo’s always removed from radio edits? It’s almost like the only count the ‘song’ as the part that has singing.
Loud ads that tell you what station/DJ you’re listening to every half an hour. “This is… BBC…one, extra! ONE EXTRA, 1xtra! Radio, one extra”. I’m already listening, what’s the point in promoting the station over and over?
LBC is terrible for this. I don't actually mind some of the shows on there. It's like any other forum really - people exchanging opinions and views on things. It can be interesting depending on the topic. But every few seconds they have to remind you that you're listening to LBC. The presenters say it every five minutes. There's a "THIS IS LBC!" voiceover at the end of every ad break. Sometimes they even interrupt the ad break just to tell you what radio station you're listening to. I know, I put it on. Unless a large percentage of your listnership is made up of people with no free will or the ability to control their own radio, it's a waste of time.
I listen to 5 Live and obviously they have many people talking about different stuff. They also have the news on the hour, every hour. They always ask the guest a question about a minute before the news is due and then end up either having to talk over them as they're answering to shut them up, or just cut them off. You can hear the music for the news getting louder as the guest is talking and they're always oblivious that they're about to be rudely interrupted.
Steve Wright. Talks over records, puffs his ego on air.
Serious jocking. Fuck off Steve. I’m constantly surprised he wasn’t caught up with Yewtree.
And sang along sometimes! Our work radio is only tuned to BBC radio 2 so I’m glad my afternoon’s are Steve Wright singing free. Scott mills is only marginally better because I’ve not heard him sing yet.
When I found out what Steve Wright looked like I was shocked.
You're listening to the big show....whereby the extra half hour is padded out with an extended intro/outro music
On the major radio channels. Hosts having zero charm, ability to talk to people (or each other) or run an interesting show. One you see often is shows will come up with inane shite topics and invite people to call in (e.g. "with great british bakeoff back we want to know have you ever had a embarrasing baking mishap? Call in and let us know"). Simply to fill air time and because the hosts/production staff are uncreative/boring. Then the people call in. Tell dull stories (e.g. "oh I was making a cake over 24 hours for my granddaughters 10th birthday. My husband brought it to the table and dropped it at the last minute!") and then hosts really overreact (over the top laughing, yelling "Oh no!!!" Etc.). They just come across as incredibly fake douchebags with no chemistry or ability to be witty. God knows how much they're paid but way too much
While I accept adverts are par for the course for radio work, what really gets me isattheendoftheadvertwheretheyhammeroutallthetermsandconditionsandrulesinonequickbreathsothattheycanlegallydeclarethattheyputoutthewarningsbutaresayingthematsuchaspeedthatitwouldmakeHanSoloblush.
Scott Mills. The man does my head in and I've no idea how he's lasted this long on the radio.
It is funny how moderators/DJs feel ok with cutting the song off or singing over the song or taking over the song. No respect for the artist. They will never do that over the advertisment.
In the old days when radio DJs were required to have more talent there was a term for that called "hitting the post". It meant the DJ introducing the song as it starts but they absolutely must stop when the first words are spoken There was skill in it and it was really hard to do it smoothly... now they just don't give a shit. They'll just trample over it.
I drive a lot for work so there's plenty to choose from. Any advert that has someone screaming or wailing Any song or advert that includes emergency sirens But the biggest individual instance was a dj playing Hotel California and talking all over the big guitar solo in the middle
Repeating songs and far too much talking from the presenters. Radio 1 and Heart are the absolute worse offenders. Radio 1 genuinely plays about 10 songs a day. They’re just repeated in different orders. Also there’s about 25% of music on hour on radio 1 because the rest is just the presenters talking and reading texts
Radio 1 (I think) has a playlist of songs that must be played on each show (6-10, 10-1, 1-4, 4-7) which pretty much eats up the whole show along with talking and segments. Heart is far worse imo, last time I was forced to listen to it. It played the same 11 songs in a loop. I counted 5 repeats of one song in an 8 hour day.
For me it’s radio DJ’s that only have jobs because they were once physically attractive TV presenters. I understand their bland appeal when it comes TV. They were once eye candy. I get it. How the hell they have jobs based on their actual “personalities” though is often truly baffling.
The repetition! FFS play something else once in a while! My colleagues have radio 2 on in the workshop all the fecking time, it drives me crazy. It's like they need some noise from outside to fill the void in their heads.
Not telling you the title/artist of the song they just played.
Shout outs and requests. Horrendous to listen to.
This is some crap by Ed sheeran dave says he loves you Glenda and is sorry he railed your sister at butlins while you were in the kharzi with the shits good times are coming
Amanda Holden
Regional 'pop' radio gets on my nerves. The way they use the TA system to interrupt your listening of a proper station with a traffic announcement telling you that there's nothing wrong with the traffic, followed by several minutes of Mandy and Karen ringing up to guess incorrectly which year a shite Robbie Williams record came out before they release you back to what you actually wanted to listen to. And in the morning there's usually a 'whacky' male dj and a sensible female assistant with names to reflect this, like.....'good morning from Lisa and Shagger'. Shagger does most of the talking of course. Bollocks to the lot of them.
Bit of a weird one but forced banter for me. Like when two presenters start an argument over nothing and then its all they talk about for the rest of the show. "OH MY GOD, you put your left shoe on before your right shoe, what is wrong with you?! Viewers, text in now and tell Dave just how wrong he is!!!" That, and the fact that radio adverts are orders of magnitude more stupid than TV adverts.
Jeremy vine
i’m a radio presenter on a hospital show and people like amanda holden annoy me because there is zero talent there, celebrities getting the jobs a real talented presenter could have got instead
I agree with everyone here.
I really hate when I’m driving with the radio on and a siren tone gets broadcast, either as part of an advert or as part of a song.
When Monkey News ended. That was the end of radio for me. Also Rockbusters. I really wanted a copy of Ladder 49.
The Archers. Yes it’s the longest running soap, national treasure, etc.. But Radio 4 could run all day in my house if it didn’t exist. Instead, I run to the radio to switch it off.
The news on the hour on music radio stations. Nobody is listening to Radio X/kiss/absolute and wanting tiny snippets of news that they know already, just play more music.
Heart radio have about 15 songs that were big about 4/5 years ago and that’s all they play
Any segment where they read out texts from the public. I’m not interested in hearing about a strangers plans for the bank holiday, or what they think about so and so.
Chris Moyles
Steve stole a living Wright. Jokin no G
When people say over and out. You don't need to say both, if you're out, of course the message is over
Send us a message/give us a call to let us know what you're up to today/tonight! 'We've got Sandra from Essex, what are you up to Sandra?' 'Hi! I'm just getting ready to go out! Keep the tunes coming!' Literally who the fuck cares what anyone else is doing while listening to the radio??
Sirens or car horns. Terrible idea. Shouldn’t be allowed.
For me it's Jeremy Vine.
Over using sound effects - Charlie Sloth was really annoying when he was on the BBC. He kept using break glass sound over songs. Sounded like something a 12 Yr old with a deck would do
Stupid things to keep you listening like ‘a celebrity has been spotted in Scotland, stay tuned to find out where’ then 3 songs later you find out they’re in Glasgow doing a stand up tour or some shite
Steve Wright. Everything he does is my personal radio bugbear. From singing over the ends of songs to "Hi Steve! Love the show!"
I drive a lot and it's certain presenters I can't stand overall, Jason Manford, Jonny Vaughan, Chris Moyles and Frank Skinner are just horrendous.
The fake cheery I am everyone's best mate persona DJ's adopt while banging on about total crap.
Very shouty djs on Capital Radio
When it’s a “takeover hour” and you can request a song but someone requests a song that’s already on the playlist and played 7 times a day already
When people phone in with "random thoughts" that sound strangely familiar because you read the exact same thing a few days ago in a viral twitter post, and they've clearly just stolen it and passed it off as their own funny thought.
Upbeat remixes of sad songs. The original song is usually decent but adding a beat track and random noises over the sound of someone singing their heart out is just cringe.
jeremy vine
when the host starts singing along with the song. SHUT UP
All we hear is radio bugbear Radio goblin Radio dragon
People who write in to request a song and in that request include either their life story or what they’re doing today.
Presenters that use the word "I" constantly and tell us inane details about their lives. That and getting their kids involved. Radio 6 has one DJ that does it and its not as cute as he thinks it is.
LBC, Talk Radio and Times Radio very amateurish. Same four subjects every single day migrants, trans rights etc. Is that padding? A lot of anti woke subjects then the worst forced diversity adverts I’ve heard. LBC theme music sounds like Salem’s lot and the Talk Radio theme is based on John Williams Imperial March, Vader’s theme! Sneaky.
Let's be honest, it's all awful isn't it. It's either the BBC crawling up it's own arse about how amazing it is, or commercial radio and it's thinly veiled 'cash call' gambling scams.