Talksport

chesterbells said:
Yes, agreed, there's much in truth in that, but they also devote a lot of time (more time) to sports news based content ie not relying on opinions. For example, in direct competition to brazil, the morning show it much more refreshing, although a bit repetitive if you listen for long periods. I'm not saying its perfect by any means, and I have got into the habit of listening to the footy podcasts every Monday and Thursday. But I think you're also being a bit disingenuous or naive about them having 'lost touch with the mainstream' - whether they take the twitter or non-twitter audience, the supporters of the 'red teams' still represent the biggest chunks of the footy supporting population, and they will still pander to them. It's just numbers.
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I agree that most of the media has always focused heavily on United and Liverpool because they are the largest potential audience but these days they seem to target the overseas fanboys more than matchgoing fans. The content (especially online) is largely trivial and juvenile. This is not good economic sense because you make money by selling targeted adverts online and the fanboy demographic is not attractive to most advertisers because they don't have much spending power.
I have no doubt the tabloid press and Talksport has alienated its core support. I make a point of meeting opposition matchgoing fans as much as possible and they usually complain about media coverage (and not just of their teams). In this country a lot more people hate Liverpool and United than support them.
The reason why Netflix is the world's most successful company at present is because it has produced high quality intelliegent content. Thankfully most people are not morons.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Most of the BBC's output is watched or listened to by virtually no one. A lot of it just replicates what is already out there and TV is dominated by repeats. The BBC needs to slim down dramtically and just focus on high quality content. It has been overtaken by Sky drama as well as streaming services like Netflix. Its news coverage needs to get out of its metropolitan bubble and start providing a service for the 55 million people that live outside London. It's just not relevant anymore and that includes its football coverage. The website is obsessed with social media fanboy culture which is a minority demographic.
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Fortitude averaged 722k viewers per episode for sky - Tin Star 1.7m. Les Miserables gets 4.5m an episode for the BBC on Sunday night.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
I agree that most of the media has always focused heavily on United and Liverpool because they are the largest potential audience but these days they seem to target the overseas fanboys more than matchgoing fans.
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I'd guess partly because an awful lot of people in the media in influential positions grew up dippers and rag fans - well glory hunters to be accurate - and I bet their age relates to the periods of success - i.e. the older ones will be dipper fans. That then brings an in-built bias that will take time to dissipate - expect some more Chelsea leanings to come through as their fans climb the greasy pole of media success.

As for the overseas challenge - well I suppose here in the UK we are at saturation and all they can hope for is audience churn as people move from platform to platform and provider to provider. The money is now overseas - on-line content can be accessed almost anywhere so the heat is on to get those viewer who are hungry for PL coverage and news - they will base that content on the number of fake shirt sales in that country I suppose lol.
 
Only just heard five minutes in the car. Durham player of the season so far-reaching Rashford. Ooh, that should provoke some debate.

Whoever it was on this thread the other day who said he had become a parody of himself was absolutely correct. What a waste of apparent intellect.
 
bluethrunthru said:
Fortitude averaged 722k viewers per episode for sky - Tin Star 1.7m. Les Miserables gets 4.5m an episode for the BBC on Sunday night.
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I'm not talking about peak time TV. A lot of BBC programmes on radio are lucky to get a few thousand viewers and some get even less. It was reported recently that some of the CBBC output (Blue Peter) had viewing figures in the hundreds. The BBC needs to focus on high quality content not quantity. We pay for it and it is just too big. Perhaps it should become a subscription service like Netflix. I believe broadcast TV is doomed in the long-term.
 
journolud said:
Only just heard five minutes in the car. Durham player of the season so far-reaching Rashford. Ooh, that should provoke some debate.

Whoever it was on this thread the other day who said he had become a parody of himself was absolutely correct. What a waste of apparent intellect.
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To be honest pal I think this guy's state of mind needs to be seriously questioned.
 
journolud said:
Only just heard five minutes in the car. Durham player of the season so far-reaching Rashford. Ooh, that should provoke some debate.

Whoever it was on this thread the other day who said he had become a parody of himself was absolutely correct. What a waste of apparent intellect.
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Heard that and turned off......
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
I'm not talking about peak time TV. A lot of BBC programmes on radio are lucky to get a few thousand viewers and some get even less. It was reported recently that some of the CBBC output (Blue Peter) had viewing figures in the hundreds. The BBC needs to focus on high quality content not quantity. We pay for it and it is just too big. Perhaps it should become a subscription service like Netflix. I believe broadcast TV is doomed in the long-term.
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so you accept that the BBC is in fact attracting and audience rather than being watched by no-one? If you want to single out programmes and times look at Sgorio on Welsh TV
and Talksport 3 on radio and so on. Your dislike of the BBC is no reason on its own to be rid of it.
 
mac said:
In the 80s they had below 5k average attendances. TThere are a lot of deluded wolves chomping at the bit atm. A lot live in our town and they think with all this money they will knock us out of the top places. They don’t even mention the other teams..
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I'm no apologist for our odd-accented friends from Wolverhampton, by any stretch, I don't especially like them even, but I remember them regularly getting crowds of 10k+ in the 4th division, at a time when a great top division attendance would have been about 25-30k.
They were there when they were shit .Sounds like some of them have just fallen for the old stereotype of the modern city fan. Blame the media more than them imo.
 
journolud said:
Only just heard five minutes in the car. Durham player of the season so far-reaching Rashford. Ooh, that should provoke some debate.

Whoever it was on this thread the other day who said he had become a parody of himself was absolutely correct. What a waste of apparent intellect.
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Got in the car after work yesterday and that was the first line I heard "Rashford player of the season so far". It then cut to adverts and I assumed that Durham was taking the piss out of the previous caller. But no, he then explained that it was because a) he's scored a few goals in the last month or so (no mention of who against of course), and b) he's had a lot to put up with this season with Jose being a cvnt and all (my words, not his). What the fuck? I thought player of the season was about performances on the pitch, not about difficulties in your private life. Fuck me, Joey Barton should have won it 10 years running by that logic!
 
AndyTheCatalystMorrison said:
Got in the car after work yesterday and that was the first line I heard "Rashford player of the season so far". It then cut to adverts and I assumed that Durham was taking the piss out of the previous caller. But no, he then explained that it was because a) he's scored a few goals in the last month or so (no mention of who against of course), and b) he's had a lot to put up with this season with Jose being a cvnt and all (my words, not his). What the fuck? I thought player of the season was about performances on the pitch, not about difficulties in your private life. Fuck me, Joey Barton should have won it 10 years running by that logic!
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When Ranieri took over at Fulham, he said they would win the premier league next season, After 2 months of De Maria at rags he said he was player of the season, Maria didn't last the season. He has sold his soul to fake news, I cannot even get angry with the Parody
 
asahartford1 said:
When Ranieri took over at Fulham, he said they would win the premier league next season, After 2 months of De Maria at rags he said he was player of the season, Maria didn't last the season. He has sold his soul to fake news, I cannot even get angry with the Parody
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It's a shame really that he has turned into a caricature of himself.
He used to the only one worth listening to on that snivelling excuse
of a radio station. I guess its a matter of doing anything to keep
the calls coming in and the ratings up. He has let himself down though.
Pretty badly.
 
Bert Trautmanns Helemet said:
It's a shame really that he has turned into a caricature of himself.
He used to the only one worth listening to on that snivelling excuse
of a radio station. I guess its a matter of doing anything to keep
the calls coming in and the ratings up. He has let himself down though.
Pretty badly.
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He wants to keep his job
 
waspish said:
He wants to keep his job
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He's always been a 'company' man - when Mike Parry was pushed aside to accommodate Keys and Andy Gray who had just been sacked by Sky Durham was on saying it was just sour grapes from Parry who wouldn't be missed

Also seem to remember the BBC tried to poach him a few years back - presumably for 5 live - but he backed out (again presumably) because he didn't think he could cut it
 
uncle fester said:
He's always been a 'company' man - when Mike Parry was pushed aside to accommodate Keys and Andy Gray who had just been sacked by Sky Durham was on saying it was just sour grapes from Parry who wouldn't be missed

Also seem to remember the BBC tried to poach him a few years back - presumably for 5 live - but he backed out (again presumably) because he didn't think he could cut it
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He blocked me on Twitter cause i told him if he didnt play the clown he'd have a job at a serious station.
 
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