How poor is local radio

miracleboy · 19 Jun 2007 at 12:27

I don't normally listen to local radio, but my wife does and the quality seems to be really poor.

Our local station is Invicta FM, and despite their claim to be "Kent's best mix", they play the same songs several times a day.

With the wealth of great music out there, they seem to have just prostituted themselves to the highest bidder, playing rubbish just to get it high in the charts.

At the moment, if you listened for a few hours you would hear the same Mika, Snow Patrol and other songs several times. When they get a bit adventurous and play a 'classic' they always play that song from Dirty Dancing!

The DJs are the bland no-opinion of their own type, who think everything is fabulous. I seriously can't believe they like every song they play but never, ever criticise anything.

They just though of a new idea, which is some retarded guy on the phone who they poke fun at, I seem to remember Moyles doing that 5 years ago, hardly original.

Everything is sunny, and you can bet that as soon as the sun comes out they stick on Will Smith - Summertime!

It really is poor quality, dumbed down, bland and repetitive - nothing more than a mouthpiece for whichever record company is paying.

And if I hear the phrase "Love the show" one more time I will smash the radio!

/ rant over

Gilly · 19 Jun 2007 at 12:29

Very.

Johnnytoxic · 19 Jun 2007 at 12:29

I hate local radio presenters, It's just pure cheese

Male Presenter : Stay tuned and I'll tell you how I ordered a big mac last night.

Female Presenter : OHHHH LOL your so funny your so funny.

Freda plays pop ARRGGH, for all those who live in stoke.

scorza · 19 Jun 2007 at 12:30

Yeah local radio is usually rubbish. At least its better than Radio 1 though

iCraig · 19 Jun 2007 at 12:30

Not to mention the adverts for Car Craft every 2 minutes.

Gilly · 19 Jun 2007 at 12:31

scorza said:
Yeah local radio is usually rubbish. At least its better than Radio 1 though

Lies.

Without Whiley and Bowman Radio 1 would be excellent.

scorza · 19 Jun 2007 at 12:32

On another note, do we actually need DJs? Does anyone actually think they contribute anything to radio? Could we not just have a technition queuing the songs and ads, and just have a presenter to do the news/weather?

Sone · 19 Jun 2007 at 12:34

johnnyfive said:
I hate local radio presenters, It's just pure cheese

Male Presenter : Stay tuned and I'll tell you how I ordered a big mac last night.

Female Presenter : OHHHH LOL your so funny your so funny.

Freda plays pop ARRGGH, for all those who live in stoke.

Quite like Signal1, although freda plays pop is absolutly terriable

miracleboy · 19 Jun 2007 at 12:35

LOL here is their playlist, it says new additions - but that's actually about their entire playlist. I think they just have an iPod on shuffle tracks.

I was even in the car for the switchover from one show to the other recently and they played the Fray 10 mins before the end of the first show and then again 10 mins into the next show - at least they didn't have to change the CD I guess.

Mr Nice · 19 Jun 2007 at 12:36

Local radio is rubbish. That's why I listen to TalkSport..

Phaser · 19 Jun 2007 at 12:40

All about pirate radio.

iCraig · 19 Jun 2007 at 12:43

Phaser said:
All about pirate radio.

"Up next, The Clams. Yarrrrr"

elevenseventysix · 19 Jun 2007 at 12:44

'It's Friday and we're getting you ready for the weekend.'

ARGH! :mad:

lookitsjonno · 19 Jun 2007 at 12:46

IMO radio1 has turned really poor atm, it's the same songs whenever i turn that goddamn station on

also, does it make anyone elses teeth grind when they play a totally awful song and the presenter says something like "i love that song" :mad:

Gilly · 19 Jun 2007 at 12:47

jonno.co.uk said:
IMO radio1 has turned really poor atm, it's the same songs whenever i turn that goddamn station on

The songs are the same as any other non-specialist radio station. You're going to hear the same anywhere.

The radio presenters are, however, far better.

Whitestar · 19 Jun 2007 at 12:52

Radio 1 is only good in the morning and at night, the rest is rubbish.

Would you count community radio the same as local radio? Im a tech for a community radio station that plays all different sorts of music and has lots of interesting things on the go. We have just been granted a full time license by ofcom and are due to start broadcasting in autumn this year.

ruffneck · 19 Jun 2007 at 12:54

Gilly said:
The songs are the same as any other non-specialist radio station. You're going to hear the same anywhere.

The radio presenters are, however, far better.

plus no adverts!

CF93 · 19 Jun 2007 at 12:55

A lot of local radio stations are actually the same. That is, the music is piped from a central source for non-call-in/request shows, as is some of the news.

Only the presenters and traffic bulletins vary.

For one of our local stations, the presenters on the morning show are in different towns and linked to the studio by t'interweb - they're all at home, prob lounging around in pjs! - so it sounds like they're all in one place when it's broadcast, and the overnight programmes are all pre-recorded on the day before (with the news bulletins piped in from the central provider so it sounds live...)

iCraig · 19 Jun 2007 at 12:55

ruffneck said:
plus no adverts!

Apart from the BBC in-house ones. But at least they change frequently and are short and sweet.

scorza · 19 Jun 2007 at 12:55

Maybe its just that I've reached a certain age, but I find the radio 1 DJs behave like cretinous teenagers. If I'm travelling outside of the south-east and can't get XFM (the DJs still suck but at least the musics good) then I prefer to put radio 2 on these days. At least Wogan and Ross are genuinely funny and you actually get some intelligent debate on the Jeremy Vine show.