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Originally Posted by stin74
ah, the good old days of talk radio and talk radio uk when you could hear tommy boyd and james h reeve all in the same 24 hours, before sports talk took over and they became obssessed with football. the days when it was a talk station in the day too. a golden era
A fantastic line-up, now look at it! It just doesn't compare if you ask me. |
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I remember him as Caesar the Boogieman on Invicta Radio some years ago. Brilliant he was !
My first post on here by the way
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I totally agree with you. When Talk Radio UK first went on air it was brill
The problem with talksport(football) is the presenters,ex footballers don't make good presenters in fact the make very bad ones. There should be a law against it. I really do miss Carol mcgiffin on the radio but I suppose the TV work she does pays so much there is no need to do a radio show. In the end people who like good radio miss out to crap TV! |
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the thing is there is only so much you can talk about football, i mean from 6am till 10pm, is waaaaaay too much. ok they talk about cricket and golf occasionally,but its mainly football. a good overall talk station would be good with innovative exciting presenters, and when i say talk i mean no sports related talk apart from the really big matches, like the world cup every 4 years or an fa cup final or semi
obviously its profitable to talk about football all day but its also pretty boring too. and i like football, cant wait for the world cup too. but what talkradio was and has evolved too now is such a shame Last edited by stin74 : 10-01-2006 at 14:57. Reason: make changes |
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Caesar is back on air...
Just to clarify a few things.... Caesar The Geezer is currently working at a radio station in Kent called SFM (used to be called Swale).
The station broadcasts twice a year, until they can get a full time license. Caesar has been on this station for a while now and it's a very good station. He will be back on-air in August when the station broadcasts again. Caesar is the best!!!. |
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Caesar has been on this station for a while now and it's a very good station. He will be back on-air in August when the station broadcasts again.
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His wind-ups were really good, I remember the one where he said he'd gone on strike because of a new no-smoking policy, so he was doing the show from outside the building in Oxford Street, inviting listeners to come and say hello.. eventually it seemed like he was pulled off the air when Ian Collins took over and dumped callers who were asking where's Caesar gone, until he came back and said it was a wind-up, done by sticking a microphone out of the window for sound effects and recording conversations with passers by earlier in the day.
Which is why, sadly, when he was taken off air, a lot of people were expecting Tommy Boyd's unexpected appearance was a prank too. |
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Originally Posted by Blake Connolly
His wind-ups were really good, I remember the one where he said he'd gone on strike because of a new no-smoking policy, so he was doing the show from outside the building in Oxford Street, inviting listeners to come and say hello.. eventually it seemed like he was pulled off the air when Ian Collins took over and dumped callers who were asking where's Caesar gone, until he came back and said it was a wind-up, done by sticking a microphone out of the window for sound effects and recording conversations with passers by earlier in the day.<snip>
It was a very good wind-up though. Quote:
Which is why, sadly, when he was taken off air, a lot of people were expecting Tommy Boyd's unexpected appearance was a prank too.
I was thinking it was a wind-up until I happened to be going through Teletext and the axing of Caesar and Terry Christian was on the news pages. I don't understand how Tommy ended up being roped in as he was on leave that week and the week before so it's not like he was in the building.
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Originally Posted by dpb
I think it was Chad Benson (who was overnight host before Ian) rather than Ian who came in. IIRC Caesar was blaming Chad for the ban in the first hour.
It was a very good wind-up though. ![]() Also I remember one which was to do with an asteroid hitting the moon, which resulted in lots of listeners (including a friend of mine ) getting up onto thier rooftops to watch!
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I've worked with Chris (sorry but I won't dignify him by calling him Caesar), and I'm afraid to say that my professional and personal opinion is that he is a complete and total arse.
He could, on occasions, be funny. But most of the time he was so far up his own backside that he made Steve Wright look modest by comparison. |
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Originally Posted by +3dB
I've worked with Chris (sorry but I won't dignify him by calling him Caesar), and I'm afraid to say that my professional and personal opinion is that he is a complete and total arse.
He could, on occasions, be funny. But most of the time he was so far up his own backside that he made Steve Wright look modest by comparison. Well done. |
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yes it was a tragedy when ceasar got the bullet at talk radio
his 3 hours from 10 to 1 am was magic. He really put a lot of thought into his show. I think he was popular too and way back then he was on the net, you d think he d have a web site somewhere so people could e mail him I m not sure but he may have been moonlighting for a porn channel at the weekends and maybe that upset the powers that be at talk sport. anyway the slick, smarmy whale sailed into the building now its 3 hours of nothing, he does nt put any thought into it, or heart, like the late night sleazy tv show he once did its 3 hours of sleaze. Now Wolfy has gone theres nothin left on the station. Dicken used to be ok but now its 3 hours about parking wardens or 3 hours about gambling. galloway is one gigantic ego and enjoys talking ...... just one word at a time with a pause between each word. I get the feeling that if galloway had his way he d nationalize the banks, imprison the royal family and install wedgie ben as life president. prob with ken livingstone as vice pres. if the geezer gets back on radio please give us an http address and the times etc. if its streaming on the net, Ill be there. |
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Originally Posted by xxtimbo
yes it was a tragedy when ceasar got the bullet at talk radio
his 3 hours from 10 to 1 am was magic. He really put a lot of thought into his show. It was good for a while, then towards the end it turned into 3 hours of slightly distressed/upset callers phoning in with their problems because they thought he was psychic with Caesar chatting to them for 20 minutes repeatedly saying 'I am not a sychic'. It was a very painful listen towards the end. He always had the air of there being something not quite right about him. His exploits around the time he left Capital Gold and his subsequent spell inside just proved this Last edited by Toxteth O'Grady : 21-07-2006 at 22:16. |
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Originally Posted by RadioCOR
I wondered how long it would take before someone finally spoke up. Much more could be added by so many...................
Well done. |
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Originally Posted by HoraceBatchelor
Agreed and sorry I have to say this - the man's a to*ser!
However, you have to agree his broadcasting style is commensurate with Talk Sports current output. Cheap & tacky. |
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Shame really, a very original broadcaster in his early years, he ended up letting his ego drive his career instead of his talent............
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Although he only had a short stint at Talk radio, it has left people asking ever since "where is Ceasar?"
Whether you liked him or not he was one of the most memorable and possibly ground breaking presenters in UK radio. |
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Originally Posted by Scott Hatley
Although he only had a short stint at Talk radio, it has left people asking ever since "where is Ceasar?"
Whether you liked him or not he was one of the most memorable and possibly ground breaking presenters in UK radio. There was nothing groundbreaking about what he did - but then there's very little new in radio since the real ground-breaking DJs of the 60's and 70's |
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Originally Posted by Locksmith
I remember him as Caesar the Boogieman on Invicta Radio some years ago. Brilliant he was !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ryder |
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side of a bus
caesar was built like the side of
a bus and twice as ugly when talk radio began they filmed the geezer answering calls and put it out live on TV wot a moniker ! definitely a face for radio. He probably lived on burgers and coke too he was forever ringing up ian collins at 2 pm from a macdonalds, feeding his face as usual.......... wot a geezer ! |
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I remember him running a quiz where the prize was one million. After three hours, he had a winner who DID one a million...in Turkish money (About £7.99)
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Let's also not forget Caesar's Rude Arena on Television X. Makes me shudder just thinking about it.
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Originally Posted by xxtimbo
caesar was built like the side of
a bus and twice as ugly when talk radio began they filmed the geezer answering calls and put it out live on TV That wasn't Talk Radio, that was a pilot programme for BBC2. It wasn't on the radio, it was a mock-up studio specifically for the tv |
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got it wrong
don t you think these forums have got it
wrong the latest message is stacked right at the back when you open up the thread the first message appears which maybe months old why cant it be like e mail that stack the messages up so you read the latest first |
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) getting up onto thier rooftops to watch!
