Originally Posted by speculator:
“I was listening to talkSPORT2 this morning and they said that "for continuous coverage listen to sister station, talkRADIO." I switched to talkRADIO to hear no further coverage, apart from the hourly news which is available on all stations.
This was a missed opportunity to promote this new station. A media journalist could be writing "new station, talkRADIO had tasteful coverage on Brussels bombs." Instead it is "new shockjock station, talkRADIO completely ignored that many people died in Brussels today. Their sound quality issue is just one of the problems of this station!"
BBC and ITV are also entertainment-based stations yet still replaced programming with appropriate coverage.”
The main criticism I have, based on what you have written, is that it is worrying a station in the same company didn't realise that talkRADIO is not a rolling news station. And I don't approve of TV channels changing schedules because of big news events, because there are already dedicated 24 hour TV news channels. Asking Jon Holmes to do Brussels, for example, would be silly. You might argue that they should have have replaced him with someone serious, but having Jon Holmes there means that there is an alternative for those who don't want continuous news coverage. There are other stations that do that, why duplicate them?