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Based on his audience figures, he must be doing something right.
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Across the UK, LBC now reaches 2.1 million listeners every week (+3% YoY).
Nick Ferrari at Breakfast now reaches 1.1 million listeners every week for a total of 4 million hours. James O’Brien now reaches 943,000 (+4% YoY) listeners every week for a total of 3.2 million hours. Source: RAJAR Q2 2018, all stations and groups results are reported on their specified reporting period and TSA. |
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Thanks for that.
Needless to say I'm not one of his regular listeners. It's amazing how they compile these figures. I believe they take a set number of people, then ask them what they listen to over a time period. The results are then extrapolated. I like to note the amount of advertising space a show takes up, i.e., paying customers. Nick Ferrari's show is spoiled by the extensive advertising. I can't comment on James O'Brien and his advertisements because I can't stand listening to his show long enough to make a judgement. |
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I always wonder about the accuracy of TV audience numbers and the radio figures are probably less scientific in terms of their compilation.
I think you're correct. A sample of people are asked to maintain a diary of what they have listened to whereas with TV, the sample have ome sort of device connected to their set. |
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Shocking omission - Dreary O'Dermott, totally agree about Steve Wright - Was funny years ago when on R1 but now well past sellby date and now v irritating. JOB on LBC is awful - never allows a debate with anyone pro brexit but just constantly interrupts with questions pretty impossible to answer and often out of context. Suspect he was a bully at school.
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1 Grimmy 2 Grimmy 3 Grimmy
Hopeless drivel for impressionable kids, the future is bleak |
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At the end of the day private radio companies are only there to pull in advertising revenue.
The BBC are not saddled with stuff like that. Their presenters have to pursue an agenda set out for them by the BBC. It's all propaganda of one kind or another from the lot of them. I wouldn't be surprised if James O'Brien voted Tory. Such is the contempt I have for presenters and their opinions. |
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James O'Brien is no fan of Corbyn. He (JOB) has said many times on air that he's voted for all three main parties at one time or another.
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John Humphreys - such a miserable old man. Always looking to put a negative slant on anything.
When interviewing Carney last week he used the words 'disaster' and Armageddon' to describe Brexit and the rise in Interest Rates (to 0.75%....) |
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I listen to LBC a lot. James O'Brien does tend to interrupt and can be very rude. Although not rude, in recent weeks Maajid Nawaz seems to be adopting the tactic of interrupting the callers he disagrees with.
That said, I like listening to both of them as they cover intersesting topics. Ian Payne, for me, is the least knowledgeable. I find Nick Ferrari extremely irritating. He hosts the 'flagship' show yet is forever stubling over his words, mispronouncing them or mishearing callers. Ian Payne is on now. Count the number of times he says "I don't know". Sometimes it's more of a verbal punctuation mark but he's still the weakest presenter imo. |
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I'll throw the nauseating Zoe Ball at the top of the resurrected list.
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Can't find the awful, vile Vanessa Feltz on this list, one woman who just loves the sound of her own voice and speaks down to people even experts in their field who she doesn't agree with.
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Jim white on talkSPORT
Fence sittting changes his opinion in a second can’t stand the fella Moyes can’t stand his chat on x boring |
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Alex Jones
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the yank nutter not the Welsh TV presenter.
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Nick Abbot can be funny, but he's obsessed with insulting Trump, which is so boring.
And when he isn't insulting Trump he's ridiculing his callers. A wasted talent. |
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nick abbot the worst presenter on the radio just a very boringgggggggggggggg man
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Zoe Ball fackin hopeless.
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All the daytime/early evening women on radio 2, they seem to think they are entertaining by talking endless very childish drivel as if the average age of their listeners is 5.
Vine is also a bit thick, whenever he interviews people on his show he asks them a question that they had explained a few seconds before, which shows he isn't listening to them, just waiting to talk himself. |
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Another vote here for Feltz - she is atrocious but 3 seconds of her voice at 5.30am gets me out of bed
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Adding Steve Allen on LBC to the list...probably the most inarticulate presenter on the air waves.Spouts utter garbage for 3 hours every weekday morning.
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he keeps on saying l.b.c got lots more people listening only saying that for adverts they need steve another boring old man
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Regional not mainstream i know but that Alan Partridge on Radio Norwich early morning shift does seem to be a bit of a plonker
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Dotem by a country mile
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Shelagh Fogarty -toned down version of James O'Brien but with more whingy voice.
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She is quite awful.
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I'm with saddo - Zoe Ball NAP
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Jimmy Saville
Noel Edmunds Jobby o brien |
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Radio 5 live with Campbell and Bannister put me offorward talk radio for life and that was about 15 years ago
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My dislike of James O'Brien is such, that if he wrote for a newspaper, I would not buy that newspaper.
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Nicky Campbell is immensely overrated, yet he's one of the highest paid gravy trainers working for the BBC.
The BBC could replace the lot of their presenters, and start the new ones on a quarter of the money and we wouldn't notice any difference. |
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Apart from the obvious improvement
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Have I missed something as I can't see the token Welshman/Man U fan (the excruciating Robbie Savage)
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My dislike of James O'Brien is such, that if he wrote for a newspaper, I would not buy that newspaper.
He does. The Mirror, I think. He also writes for the TES and possibly some magazines. Not sure if he does any of this on a regular or ad hoc basis. Did you know that the founder and president of Global, which owns LBC, Capital, Heart and several other radio stations, is Michael Tabor's son, Ashley? |