Talksport are in a good place right now after surviving falling revenues. Their commercial rivals in the likes of Heart FM, Absolute and Capital Radio are not so healthy and the squeeze on advertising revenue in the recession is starting to hurt. The recent re-branding of local radios under the one Heart symbol was not only to make the product more profitable but the chance to erase the local radio tag and cull the poorer performers. If they could syndicate more chunks of the station to be played on more of the stations and so employ less staff then they can save what's left and hopefully leave local radio to the BBC. But Talk Sport are on a different tack, throwing up a  Read the complete review

I listen to several radio stations depending on what time it is and what day of the week it is, one of these being Talksport. At work I am fortunate to have a digital radio which makes the reception crystal clear, previous to this I could only listen on an analogue radio and as Talksport is broadcast on the medium wave the same as Absolute or Five Live it was hard to hear and enjoy at times. The schedule generally stays the same but there are a variety of presenters who either host their own shows or turn up to stand in for others on occasion or give their opinion on the topics of the day. The breakfast programme is presented by former Tottenham ...  Read the complete review

With an hours travel to work and an hour back each day on the bus I have recently started to take my personal DAB radio to allow me to listen to Talksport and catch up with the latest sports news, chatter and information and I must say that I am hugely impressed and remember now why I used to listen to Talksport so much. Talksport is one of the biggest commercial radio stations in the UK and is listened to by many millions of people each day. The station can be accessed through either analogue or digital radio or on the talksport website and this leads to it being listened to not just in the UK but all around the world. The format of the station is ...  Read the complete review

Sport is something I have no interest in, but even for people like me Talksport still holds some interest, because between 10pm at night and 6am each morning the station is given over to general talk radio. A few years ago the main talk show presenter was the ever-rebellious James Whale, with the excellent Ian Collins following on through the early hours, but after Whale was eventually sacked by the powers that be the show has struggled to find a suitable replacement presenter. Collins now regularly presents in Whale's own slot, and he is an intelligent, entertaining and wholly professional presenter who normally manages to make even the dullest topics seem ...  Read the complete review

As I work on shifts both days and nights, thanks to the beauty of the internet I have listened to all of Talksport's shows over the years so feel pretty well qualified to write about it! It does what it says on the tin i.e. it is talk radio with a sports leaning but is much more than that to me. Unashamedly aimed at "blokes" probably in the 20-50 years range it is a mixture of sport, current affairs, humour, phone-ins, competitions and general chaos at times. It is not a sexist station at all though, the "bloke based-banter" and "post-match debating" is done with tongue firmly in cheek and many female listeners do call in and have their say.  Read the complete review