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When I heard what turned out to be your call to Iain the other night when you asked about his understudy, he began your call saying "Hello Richard" (Cool name
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Grrr again the periscope download is screwed. I'll try again later as sometimes it improves.
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I've been writing about Iain on DS since I discovered him on LBC in 2006 and he used to read DS quite a lot back then. I met him at a TV shoot in west London at the time and introduced myself as "radamfi from Digital Spy". I used to call him up talking about what was written on here and he would occasionally remark about certain posts or posters. I eventually became quite well known in the Iain Lee community as someone who knew a lot about the show.
As it turned out, he had already answered my "understudy" question on last Monday's podcast, but I only noticed that at the weekend. Anyway I've now found his show and moved on [hope he has] I love his show and that's all that matters to me. |
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When I heard what turned out to be your call to Iain the other night when you asked about his understudy, he began your call saying "Hello Richard" (Cool name
) but ended it saying your DS username "Radamfi" I noticed when I listened back. How come? I notice a lot of comment about Julia Hartley Brewer. No, or few calls? Not surprised. She's a dreadful woman whenever I've come across her by accident in the wider media. Even if I was at home alone, kicking my heels and it was the only radio station available I would not tune in to her. Pointing a new listener in the direction of Iain Lee (who's show they didn't like), where they heard Nigel from Maidstone, and I received the comment that the joke with Nigel was on us, and that he is simply playing up a role pretending to be thick or a bit slow on the uptake rather than genuinely being so. I don't know the bloke personally but having listened to him for years on the radio, having seen dozens of his videos some I'm sure not originally intended for going online and having read what someone who actually knows him has said about him I'm convinced Nigel is really like he is on the airwaves.
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The people criticising JHB seems to have very short memories. When there were non--sport phone-ins on TalkSport at the same time LBC was covering current affairs, those phone-ins were usually current affairs discussions and the phone lines were busy. I'm not convinced Iain Lee would get many more callers than JHB if he was on at that time and he had never been heard of by anybody before. Quote:
A few weeks in & just not many people listening to this station . Something has to change ? They have not even got more than a comment an item on there Facebook page . They need to get this station onto some tv platforms at the very least
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I haven't listened that much to Jonny & Ash but they do seem to have more callers than in the daytime shows, despite 7-10pm being a bit of a graveyard slot for radio as it is the main TV watching time.
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In my view never in a million years is Nigel just putting on an act when he's on the wireless.
I don't know the bloke personally but having listened to him for years on the radio, having seen dozens of his videos some I'm sure not originally intended for going online and having read what someone who actually knows him has said about him I'm convinced Nigel is really like he is on the airwaves.
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Here's something that is bugging me: rubbish adverts. There are a couple in particular that drive me up the wall.
#1 is the horribly butchered Open University ad which has obviously been chopped and edited with zero regard for the backing music. #2 is Dulux "I could kiss my decorator". It makes me cringe. It's partly made up for by Chicken Madras. You drive me CRAZY...! She sounds like a sort ![]() I'm sure I'll remember some others after I've posted this. |
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Excuse me 3rd post in a row.
Listening now to Uri Gellar telling Super Gould Bros how David Guest had a "feeling" that Michael Jackson wasn't well. Oh God now he's backing it up with Einsteins general relativity. First time listening to TalkRADIO that I've actually felt like punching my radio. |
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On Jon Holmes this afternoon they played out a fake Steve Wright Factoid with the words mixed up, but it sounded almost normal. I almost forgot I wasn't listening to Radio 2. I wonder if the management know or care about him talking and making noises over the sports news? Quote:
#1 is the horribly butchered Open University ad which has obviously been chopped and edited with zero regard for the backing music.
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On Jon Holmes this afternoon they played out a fake Steve Wright Factoid with the words mixed up, but it sounded almost normal. I almost forgot I wasn't listening to Radio 2.
I wonder if the management know or care about him talking and making noises over the sports news? When I heard that first I originally thought that there was a break in the stream. |
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I don't like to agree but I kind of share Simon's pesimism which I did outline before the station went on air. attracting listeners and callers was always going to be a challenge and the over priced number hasn't helped them. Jon Holmes seems to do ok as his show doesn't need many callers and Iain Lee obviously gets a lot of callers but poor old JHB and Sam Delaney just seem to be talking to themselves.
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Here's something that is bugging me: rubbish adverts. There are a couple in particular that drive me up the wall.
#1 is the horribly butchered Open University ad which has obviously been chopped and edited with zero regard for the backing music. #2 is Dulux "I could kiss my decorator". It makes me cringe. It's partly made up for by Chicken Madras. You drive me CRAZY...! She sounds like a sort ![]() I'm sure I'll remember some others after I've posted this. |
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I wonder if the management know or care about him talking and making noises over the sports news?
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The websites of the new stations are dire myspace profice kock-offs. and there's precious little by way of promotion or sharable content.
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When will the RAJAR survey contain the first listening figures?
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When will the RAJAR survey contain the first listening figures?
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That is exactly what my impressions are of the new talkRADIO and Virgin Radio websites. They are not very well designed with badly placed & promoted links for their facebook and twitter pages also no link available for their official youtube channel. There is a lack of information about the station presenters on the website. Might of been nice for each to of had a page with a mini bio and individual links to the presenters facebook, twitter & website if available. The homepage itself looks pretty bare like it's been designed in a hurry and it's not very easy to navigate everything should be simple and straight forward. There is no simple link for ways to listen to the station or how to listen to a show again. There should be plenty of cross links between their social media pages and plenty of information on the website about what's coming up on the shows and the latest news stories. This information should also be mirrored on the twitter and facebook pages as well. I totally agree with what you said about making better use of youtube yes they should post up anything that would get views and give the station some publicity and help them to gain new listeners.
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I really don't get why they didn't just use the Aiir templates TWG use for their local sites.
The current ones are like they've taken the talkSPORT site, stripped it of ALL content and said 'how can we make this looks like a facebook page?'. |
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They get published 19th May. That's when the you know what hits the fan!
![]() Talk's first full survey should be Q2, the results for which are published on August 4th. |
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Bang on. If it was me I would be all over that website giving each presenter a dedicated page with maybe a comments section, tweet links, maybe a simple blog if presenter is game for it. Information on upcoming topics to get people involved. Website is pretty crap to be honest and I personally have no interest in it other than having a direct bookmark to the listen again page. As far as YouTube goes, it's currently down to a few station fans (myself included) to upload clips and even whole shows hoping it will prompt the odd new listener.
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That is for Q1 which only covers listening up to April 3rd, so the new TWG stations are unlikely to be included.
Talk's first full survey should be Q2, the results for which are published on August 4th. |
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Iain's trying to phone up talkSPORT and get on the air. That's one way of getting on Freeview, satellite and Digital One.
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Out of interest I skimmed through the shows for Monday and counted how many pre-arranged guest calls and how many listener calls each show had got these are my findings:
Paul Ross - Pre-arranged Guest Calls: 11, Listener Phone Calls: 2 JHB - Pre-arranged Guest Calls: 14, Listener Phone Calls: 1 Jon Holmes - Pre-arranged Guest Calls: 2, Listener Phone Calls: 4 Sam Delaney - Pre-arranged Guest Calls: 8, Listener Phone Calls: 3 Johnny & Ash - Pre-arranged Guest Calls: 4, Listener Phone Calls: 2 Iain Lee - Pre-arranged Guest Calls: 1, Listener Phone Calls: 20 The only show with any significant caller participation is Iain Lee's by a long shot! I'm wondering if their aim is to have a style similar to talkSPORT's where the focus is not so much on listeners phoning the station and getting involved, but merely being a passive observer. The only difference being it is non-sport as opposed to sports talk. |
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Out of interest I skimmed through the shows for Monday and counted how many pre-arranged guest calls and how many listener calls each show had got these are my findings:
Paul Ross - Pre-arranged Guest Calls: 11, Listener Phone Calls: 2 JHB - Pre-arranged Guest Calls: 14, Listener Phone Calls: 1 Jon Holmes - Pre-arranged Guest Calls: 2, Listener Phone Calls: 4 Sam Delaney - Pre-arranged Guest Calls: 8, Listener Phone Calls: 3 Johnny & Ash - Pre-arranged Guest Calls: 4, Listener Phone Calls: 2 Iain Lee - Pre-arranged Guest Calls: 1, Listener Phone Calls: 20 The only show with any significant caller participation is Iain Lee's by a long shot! I'm wondering if their aim is to have a style similar to talkSPORT's where the focus is not so much on listeners phoning the station and getting involved, but merely being a passive observer. The only difference being it is non-sport as opposed to sports talk. I've listened to speech radio long enough to know that there are a hardcore people out there who would ring an empty phone box if they thought they could get on the radio, so I don't believe that folk about not actively ringing the station. I think your last paragraph sums it up. The proof is in the number; if they wanted more audience participation, they'd have a 03 or a freephone number, not 08. |
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Iain's trying to phone up talkSPORT and get on the air. That's one way of getting on Freeview, satellite and Digital One.
What made it funny for me was Iain knows absolutely nothing about football and doesn't even like it and he had the nerve to ring a live football show. ![]() If he'd have got on air the first time of trying I think it would have been better because what happened for anyone who didn't hear/see it was it took him a second attempt to get on and in between the two attempts some miserable g!ts were tweeting Goldstein about what was about to happen. I'm not certain whether Goldstein or Cundy saw the tweets but halfway through it does sound a bit like they know what's going off. It was still a good prank and funny, to wind down at the end of the day this show is just the thing. >> http://bit.ly/1S9yw5U << |
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) but ended it saying your DS username "Radamfi" I noticed when I listened back. How come?
I don't know the bloke personally but having listened to him for years on the radio, having seen dozens of his videos some I'm sure not originally intended for going online and having read what someone who actually knows him has said about him I'm convinced Nigel is really like he is on the airwaves.

