Radio 2 drivetime - another show ruined

Radio 2 drivetime - another show ruined

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soxboy

6,345 posts

220 months

Tuesday 26th March 2019
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Stan the Bat said:
So you are saying all these "love the show Steve" messages aren't real.

weeping
Oh they are real messages, it's just for every "love the show Steve" message, he doesn't read out the 20 "your show's a pile of st Steve" messages.

Johnspex

4,352 posts

185 months

Tuesday 26th March 2019
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soxboy said:
Stan the Bat said:
So you are saying all these "love the show Steve" messages aren't real.

weeping
Oh they are real messages, it's just for every "love the show Steve" message, he doesn't read out the 20 "your show's a pile of st Steve" messages.
You don't get your message read if you don't say loving the show'

Why, for the love of God does he have to sing over the end of songs?

SpeckledJim

31,608 posts

254 months

Tuesday 26th March 2019
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Gary29 said:
Johnspex said:
Richie? The one who says "stationERy' when talking about standing traffic.
Get rid of him and let him take sub-Terry Wogan Kem Bruce with him.
Ultra camp, shaking pom poms, ........'ooooo Jason has been on, he says: bad news on the M6 in Wulver'ampton (he does say it like that) a family of 4 has been killed by a big nasty lorry....how am I to get my skinny latte before work now Richie?!'

People just want the fking traffic news, you're not a 'performer'

Also, whilst I'm in therapy, Tina Daheley, the news reader, can't pronounce her 'R's' and when every other word is bRexit, it gets annoying very quickly. bWexit this and bWexit that. I'm sure she's a lovely person, but just find someone who can talk properly to read the news, it can't be that difficult surely.
He's done some stand-in work for regular DJs on our local BBC station. Didn't go well.

Richie seems to think being camp is a talent. It's not. Camp is an attribute. Funny is a talent.

Graham Norton isn't popular because he's camp. He's popular because he's funny.

Stop it Richie. Just stop it.

Gary29

4,180 posts

100 months

Tuesday 26th March 2019
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Johnspex said:
You don't get your message read if you don't say loving the show'

Why, for the love of God does he have to sing over the end of songs?
or say 'social meeeeja' or 'shaaaat ouuuuuuut' or call Jeremy Vine 'Ger'....EVERY single fking time

Stan the Bat

8,964 posts

213 months

Tuesday 26th March 2019
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soxboy said:
Stan the Bat said:
So you are saying all these "love the show Steve" messages aren't real.

weeping
Oh they are real messages, it's just for every "love the show Steve" message, he doesn't read out the 20 "your show's a pile of st Steve" messages.
What's worrying then is that there actually are people who 'love the show'.

SCEtoAUX

4,119 posts

82 months

Tuesday 26th March 2019
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Johnspex said:
CharlesdeGaulle said:
boyse7en said:
If he/she did, so far we'd have ditched pretty much everyone except Ken Bruce
Are you insane? Ken Bruce is the first (actually, second, after that insufferable smug tt Vine) to go.
Couldn't agree more. The stuff his listeners send in is just unbelievable. You know how, when you've got toothache you have to keep checking it just to remind yourself how bad it is? Well, that's what listening to Ken Bruce is like.

24 hour Johnnie Walker is what's needed. At least get rid of all celeb presenters. Elaine Page first. Then Rylan Clark Neal. Liza Tarbuck, Michael Ball too.
Ken reads out loads of the stuff I send in... seriously. Probably had 50 emails on the show last year.

AdeTuono

7,274 posts

228 months

Wednesday 27th March 2019
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SCEtoAUX said:
Johnspex said:
CharlesdeGaulle said:
boyse7en said:
If he/she did, so far we'd have ditched pretty much everyone except Ken Bruce
Are you insane? Ken Bruce is the first (actually, second, after that insufferable smug tt Vine) to go.
Couldn't agree more. The stuff his listeners send in is just unbelievable. You know how, when you've got toothache you have to keep checking it just to remind yourself how bad it is? Well, that's what listening to Ken Bruce is like.

24 hour Johnnie Walker is what's needed. At least get rid of all celeb presenters. Elaine Page first. Then Rylan Clark Neal. Liza Tarbuck, Michael Ball too.
Ken reads out loads of the stuff I send in... seriously. Probably had 50 emails on the show last year.
Oh dear...

Dr Doofenshmirtz

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15,291 posts

201 months

Wednesday 27th March 2019
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SCEtoAUX said:
Ken reads out loads of the stuff I send in... seriously. Probably had 50 emails on the show last year.


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RSVR101

827 posts

163 months

Wednesday 27th March 2019
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Is it possible to see the no. of listener figures anywhere? I’d love to see the figures for the slot since Cox has taken over, she’s bloody awful and I have spoken to lots of people who agree and have switched to an alternative.

mcelliott

8,713 posts

182 months

Wednesday 27th March 2019
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RSVR101 said:
Is it possible to see the no. of listener figures anywhere? I’d love to see the figures for the slot since Cox has taken over, she’s bloody awful and I have spoken to lots of people who agree and have switched to an alternative.
She's awful, but fk me old boots, Fearne Cotton standing in for Ball, good god.

Jambo85

3,322 posts

89 months

Wednesday 27th March 2019
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mcelliott said:
She's awful, but fk me old boots, Fearne Cotton standing in for Ball, good god.
Indeed - she plus that tt Richie must be giving Chris Evans on Virgin a boost! Certainly is in my house.

DoctorX

7,324 posts

168 months

Wednesday 27th March 2019
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Jambo85 said:
Indeed - she plus that tt Richie must be giving Chris Evans on Virgin a boost! Certainly is in my house.
My bedside clock radio wakes me up to Radio 2 because I’ve never been arsed enough to change it. Fearne Cotton and that horrendous traffic bloke have changed this - 5 live for me from now on.

mcelliott

8,713 posts

182 months

Friday 5th April 2019
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Bonnie Tyler on Ball, good god!!

JakeT

5,463 posts

121 months

Friday 5th April 2019
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I don't think I've listened to R2 in the morning this year. I now either go for my own music, an online stream of Classic21 by RTBF, or HotMixRadio 80's online too. Most English stuff just gets on my nerves at the moment.

From the sounds of things, I don't think I'm missing much.

Gary29

4,180 posts

100 months

Friday 5th April 2019
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mcelliott said:
Bonnie Tyler on Ball, good god!!
The show is hurting me this morning. Zoes' laugh is annoying me, and the arse kissing is on par with peak Evans.

I'm not sure how Bonnie Tyler still has a career in the music industry

mcelliott

8,713 posts

182 months

Friday 5th April 2019
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Gary29 said:
mcelliott said:
Bonnie Tyler on Ball, good god!!
The show is hurting me this morning. Zoes' laugh is annoying me, and the arse kissing is on par with peak Evans.

I'm not sure how Bonnie Tyler still has a career in the music industry
Sounding more like a chainsaw.

james_tigerwoods

16,291 posts

198 months

Friday 5th April 2019
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Gary29 said:
The show is hurting me this morning. Zoes' laugh is annoying me, and the arse kissing is on par with peak Evans.

I'm not sure how Bonnie Tyler still has a career in the music industry
I heard the new Cliff Richard effort last week too - Surely there's a point where they are just relying on their old fan base instead of actual talent?

rdjohn

6,231 posts

196 months

Friday 5th April 2019
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Gary29 said:
The show is hurting me this morning. Zoes' laugh is annoying me, and the arse kissing is on par with peak Evans.
I was happy when Chris announced he was going to leave. But Zoe, really does embody the worst of him, but manyfold. Added to which is her ability to start a sentence in a normal voice and end it as if on Hellium. She giggles through every other sentence and gabbles incoherently.

The highlight of the show is Richie, who does seem to be genuinely funny but can pass on information quickly but clearly. Perhaps they could sub him for the guy who took over from Zoe of Saturdays. He seems to be so unpopular he has to phone his mother.

The 1st quater RAJAR numbers must be out soon. Let’s hope the BBC reacts quickly.

TheGreatSoprendo

5,286 posts

250 months

Friday 5th April 2019
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I used to listen to the breakfast show every morning but rarely do these days. I can take or leave Zoe Ball (mostly leave) and the ghastly Fearne bloody Cotton standing in is worse still. However, on the odd occasion I do tune in, Zoe seems to be engaged in an inane phone conversation with a small child. In the name of God, why? Has it become children's hour? It's excruciatingly tedious!

Harpoon

1,886 posts

215 months

Friday 5th April 2019
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rdjohn said:
The 1st quater RAJAR numbers must be out soon. Let’s hope the BBC reacts quickly.
No chance, they'll just trot out the same lines they did for Mayo & Whiley - give the show chance to bed in etc etc