LBC's ads becoming more frequent and annoying
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LBC's ads seem to be getting progressively more annoying lately.
They seem to be more frequent and they tend to broadcast lots of those cheaply made and loud in-yer-face ones instead of the better produced ones which are much more pleasant and easier on the ear.
My current pet hate is the galliard homes one, which is so pushy and loud with that irritating, booming self-important voice. You can hear it several times an hour at times too, especially during peak listening hours.
It bugs me so much that I usually turn the radio off when it comes on and may well forget to turn it back on again, so LBC is losing a listener for a while. I wonder how many other people end up switching LBC off over this?
The other thing I don't like are the constant cliff-hangers on the breakfast show and sometimes others. I listen to be informed, relaxed and entertained, not constantly kept on tenterhooks in a cheap bid to keep listeners hooked. I do turn off the radio over this sometimes and then keep it off.
They seem to be more frequent and they tend to broadcast lots of those cheaply made and loud in-yer-face ones instead of the better produced ones which are much more pleasant and easier on the ear.
My current pet hate is the galliard homes one, which is so pushy and loud with that irritating, booming self-important voice. You can hear it several times an hour at times too, especially during peak listening hours.
It bugs me so much that I usually turn the radio off when it comes on and may well forget to turn it back on again, so LBC is losing a listener for a while. I wonder how many other people end up switching LBC off over this?
The other thing I don't like are the constant cliff-hangers on the breakfast show and sometimes others. I listen to be informed, relaxed and entertained, not constantly kept on tenterhooks in a cheap bid to keep listeners hooked. I do turn off the radio over this sometimes and then keep it off.
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That's funny!
I do like the re-working of Margate, and The Chairman usually makes me chuckle.
On Heart in Surrey, I recently counted nine commercials/sponsor tags in a break up to the news.
Glad that I am not an advertiser on Heart, as nobody is going to remember many of the nine.
Poor programming, but hey, must be good for the profit line.
It wasn't nice, it was quite bad.......
The adverts and breaks are the main reason I rarely listen to LBC anymore. >:(
Is anyone else also irked by the cliffhangers?
I don't mind cliffhangers for the particular hour I am listening to, but find it frustrating hearing them for stuff later in the show when I'll be at work.
Ads have always been dire. Who remembers "Barratts. Barratts. Come to Barratts. Barratts Liquor Mart. Yeaaahhhhhhhh!" on the Bob and Doug brekkie show in the late 70s/early80s.
I must admit after a week or two's respite from the relentless airplay, I have noticed one or two of the the old chestnuts are back.
"The number 24 bus. That was my commute for the last 4 months."
"It's not hard to overload an electrical socket."
Enought already LBC!
An hour's listening this morning to an excellent debate on rail privatisation was enough to keep me grinning and bearing it but after that I just had to switch off.
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The old style we buy any car ads with that electronic voice were especially obnoxious. That confused.com one, again with an electronic voice, which is doing the rounds now is also irritating enough for me to switch off.
Oh well, I guess they got us to remember them and "spread the word" on here lol, not that I would ever buy from either of them.
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