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Old 20-11-2016, 09:55
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I used to love Nick Abbot. He can still shine but, increasingly, I don't like his attitude to callers. He is only OK if they are being sycophantic. Even in pleasant mode, he will go out of his way to find a flaw in their argument. He reminds me so much of my ex (which is why he's an ex). If you said the sky was lovely and blue he would point out the solitary cloud in the sky etc etc.. Unbelievably I used to find myself thinking through whether hubby would agree with something before I even dared I open my mouth. It's like Abbot feels compelled to demonstrate that he is the superior one.
I particularly don't like the way he picks apart texts that might be poorly worded - as if he doesn't know what they mean. It's quite simple Nick. If you don't understand a text don't read it out. Unless you just want to make a show of intellectual superiority that is....

Generally he has become less tolerant and more supercilious and there is more shade and less light in his tone.
Don't expect a fair hearing if you have different views to him.

When I first started listening, he would get a lot of husky female callers - I'll swear some of them were a bit smitten. But these days that hardly happens - he is simply less likeable.
I think most of this is down to the fact that his personality has been stifled by LBC for so long.
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Old 20-11-2016, 13:43
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On Friday night his tone over Trump suddenly shifted into a far more serious, disgusted and annoyed one after having spent the past year having a jolly good laugh at him. Now the reality has set in it no longer feels quite so amusing even for Nick Abbot.
Indeed. I was looking forward to his take on the result - given his pre election coverage - and found his tone much darker than expected. Come to think of it, I think he has got that way generally. He used to have a lighter touch - even along with the ascerbic comments. Now I sometimes switch him off mid show or don't switch on at all.
In the past few months he has devoted whole shows to having a go at someone or something. It's depressing and boring.
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Old 20-11-2016, 14:08
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Maybe he's worried about his job.....Brexit may have caused some uncertainty so that may mean less companies advertising on radio and presenters losing there jobs or less money to spend on programmes.....But what do I Know.....
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Old 20-11-2016, 15:19
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Maybe he's worried about his job.....Brexit may have caused some uncertainty so that may mean less companies advertising on radio and presenters losing there jobs or less money to spend on programmes.....But what do I Know.....
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Old 20-11-2016, 16:04
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So you're able to read his thoughts?
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Old 20-11-2016, 20:48
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brexit /trump endlessly is an instant turn off for me ! get back to lighter stuff.BORING!
Couldn't agree more.

Time for him to stop the whining about those results and get on with other topics.
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Old 20-11-2016, 21:31
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Heard him the other night talking about the Royals on this suject I'm with him 100% he makes me laugh at times though.
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Old 22-11-2016, 08:50
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Maybe he's worried about his job.....Brexit may have caused some uncertainty so that may mean less companies advertising on radio and presenters losing there jobs or less money to spend on programmes.....But what do I Know.....
His attitude issues such as devoting a whole show to having a go at someone and his manner towards some callers started well before Brexit. What do you know indeed?
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Old 22-11-2016, 11:42
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His attitude issues such as devoting a whole show to having a go at someone and his manner towards some callers started well before Brexit. What do you know indeed?
Well I do know a few weeks back he mentioned someone who sounded close to him (maybe a relative) trying to get a cataract operation on the NHS and due to funding it was proving hard to get sorted, he did sound quite angry about it. So maybe that's in back of his mind....
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Old 22-11-2016, 15:05
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I still enjoy him in small doses, but sometimes wonder what happened to the man that said he didn't do issues and that he didn't do topics. Strangled by Global one suspects...
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Old 22-11-2016, 15:47
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I still enjoy him in small doses, but sometimes wonder what happened to the man that said he didn't do issues and that he didn't do topics. Strangled by Global one suspects...
Yeah, when he returned back in 2012 we got calls from Ade who can get laid then about 3 years ago it went to topics (he even did UFOs) which I always thought he said he'd never do......Anyway he still managed with topics and was still an entertaining listen but lately it been a bit to Brexit heavy and now it just seems like the show is coming from Trumpton...
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Old 22-11-2016, 18:36
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I emailed him last week about how boring and repetitive he's become over the past year simply droning on about BREXIT and the US President-elect. I mentioned that I'll try listening a couple more times, but if it doesn't improve then I'll tune to a different station while he's on and that I'm not the only one.

It's a shame because a couple of years ago he was the highlight of my week !

A lady phoned in and told him that he'd lost his sense of humour recently and that he should return to his more entertaining act.

The message is being relayed to him, but whether he'll heed it remains to be seen. Or heard.
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Old 22-11-2016, 19:26
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I emailed him last week about how boring and repetitive he's become over the past year simply droning on about BREXIT and the US President-elect. I mentioned that I'll try listening a couple more times, but if it doesn't improve then I'll tune to a different station while he's on and that I'm not the only one.

It's a shame because a couple of years ago he was the highlight of my week !
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A lady phoned in and told him that he'd lost his sense of humour recently and that he should return to his more entertaining act.

The message is being relayed to him, but whether he'll heed it remains to be seen. Or heard.
This is exactly why id like to see him move to personality led talkRADIO. Clive is the same. He just sounds SO bored. You can tell. LBC- Largely Boring Conversation.
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Old 22-11-2016, 19:47
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Talkradio would almost certainly be a better fit for Abbot, but it's hard to see where he'd fit into their schedule if he were to stick to doing a later slot, seeing as Iain Lee has probably got that slot nailed down for the foreseeable future; unless, of course, he were to move to Sat-Sun. And I'm not entirely sure he would be ideal for earlier slots.
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Old 22-11-2016, 21:25
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I still enjoy him in small doses, but sometimes wonder what happened to the man that said he didn't do issues and that he didn't do topics. Strangled by Global one suspects...
Yeah, when he returned back in 2012 we got calls from Ade who can get laid then about 3 years ago it went to topics (he even did UFOs) which I always thought he said he'd never do......Anyway he still managed with topics and was still an entertaining listen but lately it been a bit to Brexit heavy and now it just seems like the show is coming from Trumpton...
I suspect Global are behind a lot of the decisions re style of show.

Nick used to steer well away from subjects such as ISIS and heavy politics but now his show is full of it.

I listen to him because he can still be very funny but he has definitely changed style and not for the better.

As mentioned, Clive Bull seems to have had the same directive.
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Old 23-11-2016, 12:48
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I suspect Global are behind a lot of the decisions re style of show.

Nick used to steer well away from subjects such as ISIS and heavy politics but now his show is full of it.
I'm not so sure about Global being responsible.. The presenters all have their own style and it's not always politics. Plus their views differ. Nick has always commented on current affairs and people in the news. However he made his point with a light touch and imo was more even handed. These days there is less light and more shade and he tends to dwell on pet peeves.
He's a bit more grumpy with callers too.
Maybe it's just an age thing - or maybe he needs a break from presenting. Till someone mentioned it earlier, I didn't realise he was 57!
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Old 23-11-2016, 14:48
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I'm not so sure about Global being responsible.. The presenters all have their own style and it's not always politics. Plus their views differ. Nick has always commented on current affairs and people in the news. However he made his point with a light touch and imo was more even handed. These days there is less light and more shade and he tends to dwell on pet peeves.
He's a bit more grumpy with callers too.
Maybe it's just an age thing - or maybe he needs a break from presenting. Till someone mentioned it earlier, I didn't realise he was 57!
I reckon he could do with a temporary change of career to freshen him up.

He could become an Uber driver over the Christmas period.
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Old 23-11-2016, 15:58
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Does anyone know what, if anything, he does for a living outside of his LBC slots? I just can't imagine he's paid enough by Global for 2 nights work per week to live on, without having some other source of regular income.
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Old 23-11-2016, 17:47
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Does anyone know what, if anything, he does for a living outside of his LBC slots? I just can't imagine he's paid enough by Global for 2 nights work per week to live on, without having some other source of regular income.
He did a couple of online books and many years he did up some property in Hampstead and sold it.
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Old 23-11-2016, 18:32
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He did a couple of online books and many years he did up some property in Hampstead and sold it.
He does also seem to be the go to person for overnight cover for Darren Adams and Ian Collins, plus he usually does the marathon Xmas/New Year cover, so it's a lot more than 2 nights a week.

He also had the mid week podcast but that's been dropped and he still does blogs on the LBC site.

He used to do articles for Huffington Post too but I haven't seen any recently.

He's probably got many fingers in many pies.
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Old 23-11-2016, 18:51
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The likes of Abbot will be on a pretty good show free so as long as he is able to live like most people and not have a lavish lifestyle he would be able to afford to live on 2 shows a week.
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Old 23-11-2016, 19:00
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He's still one of my favourite presenters & I still make an appointment to listen, but a couple of things do grate on me.

Firstly, his endless banker bashing.

He's absolutely correct about the bankers & what they did in 2008, but is it necessary to mention them every single time he's on air, even when he's not discussing the subject?

Also, he will never accept a different opinion to his & will always try to put down or belittle those that differ from him.

He seems to becoming increasingly thin skinned as time goes on.
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Old 23-11-2016, 19:08
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I wonder how many times the phrase "the banking racket" has been used over the past 5 years on his show...

Sometimes, however, I think callers often dictate, to a certain extent, what he has to talk about. Not listened to him much since before the EU referendum, but for a while he often seemed to get the same pub bores phoning his show - that bloke from Rickmansworth and a few other people - that constantly spoke about UKIP and similar topics, and I think even Nick was starting to tire of those topics.

I preferred when he got the callers that weren't quite so dogmatically focussed on a small number of pet peeves; ones with whom he could get a bit of banter going.
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Old 23-11-2016, 19:17
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The likes of Abbot will be on a pretty good show free so as long as he is able to live like most people and not have a lavish lifestyle he would be able to afford to live on 2 shows a week.
Whilst you're here radiodad, can you tell us how the topics of the show are chosen? Is it the presenter, the producer or both ?

It's come up here and on the LBC thread ...
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Old 24-11-2016, 21:18
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. . . he did up some property in Hampstead and sold it.
Ha, in true "Champagne Socialist" style. Now the cap fits.

He'll be a Guardian and Observer reader who voted for Ed Miliband, Remain and would've voted for Hillary Clinton if he could have.

No wonder he's got a chip on his shoulder in recent months.
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