Here's the clip of Porky reminiscing how he looked like Barry Gibb.

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Sorry Ven I don't know when Quinny is joining the breakfast show nor do I really care either to be honest lol because I hardly ever listen it's so bad I listen to Ferrari instead like you.
Which station is Vanessa Feltz on?, one of the London commercial ones I strongly suspect.

Lol! Is it still owned by Desmond? He really knows how to wring the profit out of any business so even with all the drivel they print he must be making a profit!

If Talksport don't provide detailed coverage if the Paralympics then it's an absolute disgrace.

These are people who, although physically disadvantaged in one way or another, have trained just as hard, if not more so, than some of their able bodied compatriots. I am in awe of them and they have my utmost respect, whether they are household names like Ellie Simmonds or unknowns.

They deserve equal coverage to the Olympics even if it means football is ignored.

The fact that this probably won't happen leaves me feeling rather angry.

There's more chance of a Blackpool beach donkey winning the next Grand National at Aintree than talkPREM airing Paralympic events or even talking about it.
Expect Abraham to spanner in at the end of Premiership scores updates a few mentions here and there of the medals count and I'll bet my house that's yer lot with these t055p0t$.

If Talksport don't provide detailed coverage if the Paralympics then it's an absolute disgrace.

These are people who, although physically disadvantaged in one way or another, have trained just as hard, if not more so, than some of their able bodied compatriots. I am in awe of them and they have my utmost respect, whether they are household names like Ellie Simmonds or unknowns.

They deserve equal coverage to the Olympics even if it means football is ignored.

The fact that this probably won't happen leaves me feeling rather angry.

Radio 5 Live has exclusive radio rights to the 2016 Paralympics.

Does this stop talkPREM discussing it on their shows?.

Alan looks like he's enjoying himself away on holiday and after all the hard work he's put in single-handedly keeping talkSPORT the universe's best and biggest sports radio station who can say he doesn't deserve it

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An award for services to public broadcasting surely can't be much further away.

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talksport is tabloid radio - tabloid newspapers will pay lip service to the event - it's all football, football, football - will you be writing on tabloid newspaper threads expressing your anger or is it just an anti talksport thing

for the record I don't watch much olympics or paralympics, the occasional update on either is fine for me

I agree with you that talkSPORT should cover the Paralympics, and that the event should receive roughly the same amount of coverage the station gave to the Olympics.

But I think you have to qualify how much coverage talkSPORT gave to the Olympics. They don't have official commentary rights to either Games, so you cannot expect them to go to town and provide the same level of coverage that BBC TV/Channel 4 or Radio 5 Live provide(d) on Rio 2016, they simply don't have the rights to enable them to do this.

What talkSPORT did have was a dedicated reporter in Kate Partridge providing regular (hourly I think) updates for the duration of the Olympic Games in the same way that they cover sporting events that run throughout the day like Grand Slam tennis tournaments. Having Kate or another reporter providing this kind of service for the Paralympics over the next 11 days would be welcome and is the sort of thing talkSPORT should be doing to cover the event.

During the Olympics, they also had a reporter in Michael Weadock - a freelancer who works for people including Radio Yorkshire - based in Brazil conducting interviews with Team GB athletes who were competing at Rio. However, he wasn't specifically employed by talkSPORT but was filing bits and pieces for a number of commercial radio networks or stations (I think he was also recording things for Sky News Radio, Radio Yorkshire, IRN and others) so he won't have been solely funded to be there by UTV Radio. What's likely to have happened is that he will have been able to generate enough freelance opportunities to justify sending himself there (perhaps with a bit of funding) and then each station/network will have paid him the going rate for his services. Going by his Twitter, he's not in Rio now so talkSPORT won't be able to get this sort of service from him, with perhaps there not being enough interest in having him doing what he did during the Olympics from other commercial radio broadcasters who don't cover sport to as great a degree.

However, I would like to hear interviews with Team GB Paralympians, whether that be over the telephone on some of the afternoon/evenings programmes or by having one of the journalists who are regular guests on the station and are in Rio - Gareth A Davies, who provides excellent Parasports coverage for The Daily Telegraph, being the obvious candidate here - conducting interviews for them that can be played out on the stations as and when.

talkSPORT also had Colin Murray giving a nightly round-up most evenings during the Olympic Games from some Team GB base in Stratford - however I felt this was just a bit of fluff that could have been encompassed within Kate's reports, I believe it was sponsored (by Strongbow?) and obviously Colin's no longer with talkSPORT. So I can live without that sort of thing, but hourly updates and interviews with Paralympians during daytime and evening programmes would be welcome.

Having said that, I'm not sure how much more coverage talkSPORT could provide on top of that given the rights situation. Obviously they are not going to neglect sporting events they do have commentary rights to to home in on an event they don't have rights to. But so long as they give the Paralympics a similar level of coverage they give to comparable events like the Olympics and Wimbledon, I'll be happy enough with that.

Talksport brand themselves as the biggest sports radio station in the world RightHand, there are no half measures how they brand themselves they give it the big one constantly every single day sometimes several times an hour throughout the day and night they do it so much you get sick of hearing it, if they don't devote at least some time to discuss these paralympics I think they should be made to drop the boast because it will be clearly codswallop.

To be honest the BBC overdid the Olympics. I think TS should cover the PO as a discussion but I don't think we need wall to wall stuff.

We don't get them covering say F1 even when it's the British GP and is probably the single biggest sporting event on that weekend.

When you presenters are mostly overweight ex footballers with an IQ of 8 do you really think there will be any in depth discussion of anything other than the sheep's bladder stuff?

talkSPORT are taking exactly the correct approach. The Paralympics have little sporting merit. Matthew Syed and Martin Samuel have in the last couple of days highlighted the blatant cheating going on with athletes trying to get their arbitrary competitor category changed to their advantage. There's 60 different 100 metre finals, who doesn't think there's a lot of fiddling going on in who's allocated where ? Tonight we're being force fed the Dame Sarah Storey story (intentional). Her disability is a non functioning left hand, hardly a problem on a bike. She was faster than some of the 2012 able bodied track cyclist, hardly a surprise she'll be better than the rest.

Just listening to Matt Smith on Kickoff. I'm sorry but this is vanilla radio.

Obviously we can't expect any live coverage as they don't have the rights to do it but they could devote a little air time to discussing it. But they won't of course because it'd cut into their blanket Premier League diatribe.

Hell will freeze over before they let that ever happen.

Close the damn station down, bulldoze the building to the ground so there's no comeback and let's see the likes of Durham, Gough, Forde, Quinn, Kelly and Goldstein having to find proper jobs where they have to actually work for a living. I'll excuse the absent again from work fat Scotsman he's 56 let him now with his brain 4/5's pickled semi-retire to the corporate circuit where he will no doubts enjoy free boxes at top events, free golf on the country's best courses, free meals in the best restaurants and free booze in the best bars on the strength of once presenting the world's $h!t!est breakfast show.

...............or just switch it off Billy mate haha

Have enjoyed the Jim White show all week, its been different, but tommorrow I notice it is Perry Groves and Bob Mills like normal

I remember in 2012 Danny Kelly interviewed some of the Olympians and maybe Paralympians but guess that was easy to do as it is in London.

Of course they have a certain market to catch (white van man and football fan)

TBH Some of the presenters are a bit clueless on other sports anyway so would they add anything.

Didn't Georgie Bingham do the Channel 4 coverage?

It does make you laugh that whilst a footballer (or other sports people) complains of a little knock some guys are winning medals blind/without limbs etc though.

Maybe somebody like Sarah Storey isn't the best example of a true Paralympian but then you've heard of players being out for weeks with a broken finger/wrist (don't mean a goalie either!)

It's a fair point and tbh if I read tabloid newspapers (or any newspapers) I would probably be writing in their threads. I don't so I won't be.

But I do listen to Talksport, it's a sport radio station not just football so I feel inclined to make the comment. I don't expect wall to wall coverage especially as 5Live have the rights but I would expect high profile discussion.

I'm sure even the most hardened football fan doesn't want solely football discussion. As a friend of mine often says "I love pork pie so much, but I don't want to see it every time I open the fridge door, sometimes a scotch egg would be preferable"

Yeah, I switched off pretty quick.

Interesting comments Difference, most of which I can't argue with.

My point however (admittedly probably not as well presented as you present yours) is that irrespective of whether there are 150 versions of the 100m or how much a level playing ground it is between all athletes, these sports men and women have overcome a disability of some kind to put themselves through grueling training to try and achieve sporting greatness.

Now I can't begin to imagine the suffering someone with a disability goes through, let alone the pain of daily training they endure to be able to compete at the highest level they can. Therefore I feel that (morally at least) their events deserve probably an even higher level of coverage than Olympians or Footballers. We should be in awe of their achievements.

The media coverage should reflect this. Yes Channel 4 are broadcasting it using the Superhumans tag but it seems to me that many other sections of the media, Talksport included, do the bare minimum to look good and say 'hey we're supporting the Paralympics, but lets now get back to whether Eddie Howe could hypothetically take over from Arsene Wenger at some distant point in the future'. I'm not interested in that.

Sadly I must be in a minority .....

Interesting comments from both Nedski and Difference and sort of cover what is wrong with TS as a SPORTS station. We all know it's really a Football/ Premiership station with attention to other sport fitted in around.

What be great for the UK would be a proper Sport station with no news and a proper broad scope of sport it could be fantastic.

Sort of 5 llive sports extra without all the restrictions they seem to have on that station. And proper "magazine" shows of sports at times through the week where you would know and get used to them being.

Rights to live sport would be an issue though of course!

The last true Paralympics was the 'first' one in 1988! After that you had athletes with questionable disabilities coming out of the woodwork wanting a slice of the glory!

After all the hype what is the betting that the Manchester derby will end in a dull draw...

Just can see both sides not wanting to lose and with players coming back from International duty/games in mid-week the teams not going full pelt.

Happy to be proved wrong - guess the managers will want to get one over each other!

Good post I am certain there are many people up and down the country not enamoured with the EPL, they are not fooled by the mega-hype given out by the media and would just like to see a more fairer distribution of air time which included coverage of the EFL.

I have to say fair play to Sky Sports for showing the amount of live EFL games they do they are fair which is something talkSPORT could learn from.

If Sheffield Wednesday the club I follow one day get promoted to the EPL I will still want to watch live EFL games on TV through my subscription to Sky Sports and I will still shout for some coverage on talkSPORT because I think the English Football League is fabulous.