Ken Bruce....Will you miss him?

[Taipan]

I haven't listed to BBC radio since Simon Bates, DLT, Steve Wright and Peter Powell were on there!

[Skub]

I haven't listed to BBC radio since Simon Bates, DLT, Steve Wright and Peter Powell were on there!

I haven't owned a radio since the Postmaster General,one Anthony Wedgewood Benn (yeah that one) pulled the plug on Radio Caroline and the other pirate channels.

[Bigjawa]

I haven't listed to BBC radio since Simon Bates, DLT, Steve Wright and Peter Powell were on there!

I haven't owned a radio since the Postmaster General,one Anthony Wedgewood Benn (yeah that one) pulled the plug on Radio Caroline and the other pirate channels.

I have a load of them, from old valve stuff right up to DAB including a pukka communications receiver but t'internet has killed radio stone dead, nearly every station on the planet has online listening now.

I still remember the whole "Down-town 293" jingles form the early 80s, when people used wavelength instead of frequencies.

[Skub]

t'internet has killed radio stone dead

Doesn't have the same ring to it as the Buggles version.

As a pre-teen youth I loved my radio,but now the first thing I do in the car,if Mrs.Skub has been driving it,is turn the radio off! Anything with adverts is unbearable,which is why my tv viewing is always recorded.

[gremlin]

Mrs. G has started listening to LBC. I scoffed at her lack of hipness for the first few weeks, but it's growing on me massively.

[Yorick]

Mrs. G has started listening to LBC. I scoffed at her lack of hipness for the first few weeks, but it's growing on me massively.

Pipe n slippers time.

[Rockburner]

Radio DJs are why I mostly listen to music via an mp3 player in the van. Even R3 has presenters that blather on and on, very annoying.

Can't say I disagree with that - but I think the main reason I listen to BBC-Radio is that I simply loathe the incessant adverts on every other radio source.

That being said, Planet Rock (workshop listening) is just about bearable on the advert front.

[Yorick]

Radio DJs are why I mostly listen to music via an mp3 player in the van. Even R3 has presenters that blather on and on, very annoying.

Can't say I disagree with that - but I think the main reason I listen to BBC-Radio is that I simply loathe the incessant adverts on every other radio source.

That being said, Planet Rock (workshop listening) is just about bearable on the advert front.

I pay £3 a month for advert free. I have it on 6 - 8 hours every day.

[gremlin]

Absolute have the 'No repeat guarantee' between 9 - 5 every weekday, which is great, but the adverts grate me, as they repeat every bloody 10 minutes, it seems.

[Yorick]

Absolute have the 'No repeat guarantee' between 9 - 5 every weekday, which is great, but the adverts grate me, as they repeat every bloody 10 minutes, it seems.

Pay 3 quid ya tight git

[gremlin]

Absolute have the 'No repeat guarantee' between 9 - 5 every weekday, which is great, but the adverts grate me, as they repeat every bloody 10 minutes, it seems.

Pay 3 quid ya tight git

Then I'd have fewer things to get annoyed by, and I'm officially a grumpy old man.

[Rockburner]

Radio DJs are why I mostly listen to music via an mp3 player in the van. Even R3 has presenters that blather on and on, very annoying.

Can't say I disagree with that - but I think the main reason I listen to BBC-Radio is that I simply loathe the incessant adverts on every other radio source.

That being said, Planet Rock (workshop listening) is just about bearable on the advert front.

I pay £3 a month for advert free. I have it on 6 - 8 hours every day.

I'd be tempted to do that if I had an up-to-date radio in the workshop. Currently using an old Pure 'Bug' which is 'pre-bluetooth' so it's 'dumb' and isn't internet connected.

Use Spotify for most of the day when working in the study. (which I pay for)

[Yorick]

Can't say I disagree with that - but I think the main reason I listen to BBC-Radio is that I simply loathe the incessant adverts on every other radio source.

That being said, Planet Rock (workshop listening) is just about bearable on the advert front.

I pay £3 a month for advert free. I have it on 6 - 8 hours every day.

I'd be tempted to do that if I had an up-to-date radio in the workshop. Currently using an old Pure 'Bug' which is 'pre-bluetooth' so it's 'dumb' and isn't internet connected.

Use Spotify for most of the day when working in the study. (which I pay for)

I just play from my phone. To Bluetooth headphones or speakers

[ace llani]

Always found him annoying, cheesy OAP humour, not my cup of tea.
Vernon will be better, but maybe that's damning with faint praise.