r5 has joined talks**te in the weeds

"let us know what YOU think"

Sacking staff and running hours & hours of phone-ins is MUCH cheaper than proper journalism.

In the last five years (roughly)
BBC1 has become ITV (e.g. strictly)
BBC2 has become BBC1
BBC4 has become BBC2
R5 has become Talks**te (po)lite

Posted By: Henclrikus on May 26th 2018 at 10:30:57

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Radio 5 is unbearable this morning. I'll be cheering Liverpool on tonight (General Chat) - Bravo win or die, May 26, 07:09:07
- Has really gone down hill. (General Chat) - avenging canary, May 26, 10:53:58
  - Standards are certainly slipping. (General Chat) - emmaroyds, May 26, 11:01:09
    - which is what happens when income is frozen for 5 yrs (n/m) (General Chat) - Henclrikus, May 26, 11:10:51
- I agree. I don't even recall this saturation of coverage (General Chat) - Azteca, May 26, 09:55:30
  - lol - good luck to anyone remembering radio coverage of a match 10 years. (n/m) (General Chat) - norway, May 26, 10:08:55
- Other radio stations are available (n/m) (General Chat) - The Mascara Creosote, May 26, 09:53:05
  - Yep. I've switched to the stuff I've saved up on iplayer (n/m) (General Chat) - Bravo win or die, May 26, 10:19:25
  - I switched on the news on R4 after but they were at the Hay festival. It's like the whole (General Chat) - Bravo win or die, May 26, 10:14:19
- To be fair, 5Live is a sport station in a way that Radio 4 isn't. (General Chat) - norway, May 26, 09:30:45
  - It's supposed to be news and sport though (unlike say, Talk Sport) and I wouldn't have (General Chat) - Bravo win or die, May 26, 10:17:48
    - Oh indeed - I broadly agree (particularly on the Irish referendum) (General Chat) - norway, May 26, 10:30:59
    - r5 has joined talkshite in the weeds (General Chat) - Henclrikus, May 26, 10:30:57
      - BBC1 has *always* had populist shows tbf. (n/m) (General Chat) - norway, May 26, 10:38:27
        
        .... (General Chat) - Henclrikus, May 26, 10:58:57
- I thought the same listening the other night. (General Chat) - bird table, May 26, 07:27:26
  - And while we're at it... (General Chat) - bird table, May 26, 07:29:59
    - Me too. They've barely mentioned THE MOST VALUABLE GAME IN FOOTBALL though (n/m) (General Chat) - Bravo win or die, May 26, 07:35:14
      - if the FL were trying to create brand awareness (General Chat) - Henclrikus, May 26, 10:33:04
        
        yes. I know. But not as many (General Chat) - Henclrikus, May 26, 10:50:57

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