This debacle was the finest example of the inadequacy, ineptitude and weakness of CPS and police leadership. Most notoriously,heindulgedthepatently absurd liestold by Carl Nick Beech about VIP paedophile-rings, a conspiracy theory that hurtactualpeople. We only mention this because a Talk Radio listener took to Twitter to troll James OBrien, a presenter on rival talk station LBC, to ask who else has been switching over to the News UK-owned home of grow-your-own concrete. LBC Radio - Nick Ferrari and James O'Brien 52 replies . Im surprised TalkRadio havent snapped him up. "How could she have manufactured all the evidence that led the met police to issue 126 fines?". OBrien is very biased ..we can dress it up with chin scratching waffle about the media today and the feedback loop between MSM and Social media..and the need for journalists to expand beyond the brand and all that..but at the end of the day he is just a nasty person. Years ago I switched off LBC at 10am and rejoined at lunchtime. Also once, hilariously, he was being his usual patronising obnoxious oafish self. It couldnt possibly have been Labour ?? Its truly humbling and a testament to the hard work of every Globaller who has strived to keep our audiences informed and entertained with the best music and highest quality news and analysis. Im delighted that Global, in some of the most challenging times ever, has scored record audience numbers, both overall and also for many of our individual brands and shows. And it wasnt any notions of fair play that stopped their persecution of one smaller pupil, it was being belted (with the tawse) by the then Headmaster rather heavily a move supported by almost everyone I talked to at the school). He nearly did with Frank Lampard. O'brien knew that by installing the Tories it would only help his listening figures. Please tell me Im wrong, he pleads. A leader column in the, spelt it out: This is racism, pure and simple: Romanians, he is suggesting, are criminals to be feared. Indeed he was, and he might reasonably have expected the. You should be able to make their argument well and then explain why its wrong. Most notoriously, he indulged the patently absurd lies told by Carl Nick Beech about VIP paedophile-rings, a conspiracy theory that hurt actual people. The numbers, the stations third RAJAR results, are its best yet. Oh ! Thats whats destroyed it. The LBC brand stations also all saw increases in total time spent listening to their programming. OBrien long since drove away most of those who might not share his views on such subjects as Trump, Johnson, and Brexit, and his show resembles a familiar social media echo chamber. he allows a far greater diversity among those who get put on air I could put up with almost any presenter, however one-sided, possibly even OBrien, if they werent so controlling over who gets to call in and talk. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973 02.28.2023 Rishi "look at what you could have won" Sunak This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. He has no idea how offensive and arrogant this is. Lampard gave rather better than he got, though it is possible that he didnt quite grasp the nature of the phone-in. LBC 529K subscribers Subscribe 280 views 7 minutes ago #jamesobrien #religion #LBC A Christian caller phones LBC, citing a familiar passage from Leviticus - and James O'Brien is on hand. Talk Radios Insulate Britain gotcha was a magnificent self-own, 2023 The Poke. Im immensely proud that so much of that increased listening is driven by the great work of our teams in growing Globals brands. James is a very skilled, sensitive and well-informed interviewer. And he remains courteous to all but the most extreme, giving the impression that he means it when he says, I want to hear your calls. Emily Sheffield Podcast streaming numbers or 'plays' are notoriously tricky to find. Sometimes first impressions count for more than a broadcaster would like. From European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's "dear Rishi" to the enthusiastic response of the . Fr unsere Konzernzentrale in Kelkheim/Taunus (nahe Frankfurt am Main) suchen wir zum frhestmglichen Eintritt einen (Senior) Einkufer (m/w/d) accessibility LBC, the UKs largest commercial talk brand, meanwhile also grew its audience for the ninth RAJAR in a row. James continued to tell listeners that the Daily Mail reported that Katy attended a school with tuition fees of "excessive" 11,300 per term. He is, in short, a master of the new media world, one in which opinion and tribal values count for more than a pursuit of the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I worked as a Broadcast Assistant on the Jeremy Vine show. Copyright 2022 New Statesman Media Group Ltd. Weekly insight into the big strategic issues affecting the future of the news industry. But the pandemic has changed the way we listen to radio. James loves sneering at people who dont live in the same woke, hyper-intelligent universe he imagines himself to inhabit. OBrien is a particularly egregious example of the host who doesnt argue in good faith. Beechs lies ruined peoples lives. Windsor Framework released as update to Northern Ireland Protocol ciltuk.org.uk 10:36 1-Mar-23. cookies O'Brien on top Meanwhile O'Brien has hit 1.307 million. Of course Hitchens eventually changed Grahams mind. Obviously. He often comes across as sanctimonious, superior and smug, of course, but thats part of the schtick, integral to his appeal. Actress Amanda Abbington, star of Sherlock and Netflix thriller Safe, speaks to James about her misdirected early attempts at dancing, the moment she realised she was an actor and the adrenaline rush of the stage. The Ukip leader had recently remarked that hed be concerned if a group of Romanian men moved in next door, and OBrien demanded an explanation. Just a decade ago LBC was a London-only talk radio outlet known for its bellicose phone-ins. When Beechs lies were exposed, did we hear any apology from OBrien? Trending videos, tweets and news from the UK's biggest humour site. For the first time, OBriens listenership has overtaken Ferraris. LBC has decided that the requirement for balance in broadcasting can be made right across the schedule, rather than within any one show, so that each presenter is allowed, indeed encouraged, to be one-sided. James Edward O'Brien (born 13 January 1972) [citation needed] is a British radio presenter, podcaster, author, and former tabloid journalist and television presenter. The audience for my three hour show is now almost three times the size of the total audience for the entire station you mention here. Well put. I remember that being said on the BBC, but not which BBC berk had said it. or James O'Brien spoke to listeners after a Tory MP controversially used his staffer as an example of a person who can get by living in London on less than 30,000 a year. He sits in his echo chamber and most of us would rather hear all sides of discussion. This requires a different attitude, which is why OBrien never really made the grade when presenting. The vast silent majority would not bother to ring in. 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Whats the difference between that situation and a group of German children moving in next door? . Times Radio, which is owned by News UKs radio division Wireless, saw the biggest quarter-on-quarter boost of the major talk stations, reaching a weekly audience of 703,000 people in the first three months of the year, a 40% gain on the last quarter of 2021. I ask you, Eamonn Holmes and Anne Diamond. LBC Radio presenter James O'Brien is either the stupidest motherfucker alive, or the biggest shill who has ever opened a microphone. OBrien was like the clever bullying 6th former but with a seriously nasty streak. I just dont. But he is happy to suggest that democracy is dictated by a small group of press barons the non-dom billionaires who installed Boris Johnson in Downing Street and even to allude to the one at the back of the room, pulling all the strings. Speech radio stations saw a large audience boost in the first quarter of 2022 with a number of stations seeing record reaches, according to the latest RAJAR radio listening figures. "Go on seriously, riddle me that", he added. View our Privacy Statement for more details. O'Brien is back at it in January 2015, telling his listeners: 'It gives me a great deal of satisfaction to see many other areas of the media. Schoolmasters at the academy rated as 'outstanding' by Ofsted have banned . Unless your life was horribly affected by Beechs fantasies, this is mostly good knockabout fun. privacy He has told us so often that Boris Johnson is Britains Donald Trump, that the two have eventually blurred into one, and a diatribe against the former is invariably laced with references to the latter. Fortunately there are still strong hosts who do not screen out dissenters and seem to enjoy the challenges that OBrien cant cope with. He has a fan club of Remoaner leftards, doffing their cap as he would put it. LBC News or His biggest story came in 2009 when he joined in the tabloid baiting of Frank Lampard over his treatment of his ex-girlfriend, only to find the footballer, somewhat enraged, calling in. LBC His political analysis is broad-brush, to put it politely. modern slavery IS LONDONS BIGGEST COMMERCIAL MUSIC BREAKFAST SHOW. Ive been addicted to the phone-in for forty years, ever since I first heard the magnificently irascible Brian Hayes in what is now OBriens slot. Nick Abbott is quality though But he is at least aware of his own humble place in the pantheon of polite society: he fawningly asked the fox-killing, kimono-wearing. (After Farages departure in 2020, OBrien tweeted in triumph: Others have fallen by the wayside. Good summary I was actually listening to Nick Ferrari when this article appeared. Broadcaster Terry Christian grew up in a large Irish Catholic family in Manchester where not attending mass or university was out of the question. His ratings have, however, since fallen reaching a low of 40,300 earlier this week according to Broadcasters Audience Research Board (BARB) reported by the i. GB News which recently started simulcasting its audio feed as a radio station reached 239,000 people a week, eclipsing, said GB News, talkRADIOs launch. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973. I see the psychopathology of James OBrien as the archetypal guilt of the public school class. Olivia Williams, 15, a pupil at Trinity Academy Cathedral school in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, was told her trousers should not be tight and she had to cover her ankles to avoid 'drawing sexual attraction'. But OBrien is more serious than that nowadays. He reserves a good deal of his scorn for the cap-doffing, forelock-tugging types who arent as articulate as him. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have drawn headlines amid their Netflix docuseries - but now, one angry caller has ranted to LBC's James O'Brien about why Meghan Markle reminds him of his exes.. Richard in Chelmsford said he had been "looking forward" to the call before sharing the different reasons as to why he wasn't a fan of the royal and certainly didn't hold back. People like JOB insinuate it must be corrupt Tories who cover up child abusers, as if that is what it means to be right wing when we all know a lot of that goes on on the left, from Cyril Smith and PIE to the systematic cover ups of Muslim grooming gangs overwhelmingly in Labour constituencies. Ferrari's audience figures were back up after. Add message. Fr unsere Konzernzentrale in Kelkheim/Taunus (nahe Frankfurt am Main) suchen wir zum frhestmglichen Eintritt einen Teamleiter (m/w/d) Transportmanagement LBC and BBC radio see dips in listeners Meanwhile, RAJAR figures show LBC was the biggest commercial speech radio broadcaster in the UK in the second quarter with weekly reach of 3.3 million, down . Sometimes you should think about things before you speak about them, he said, which isnt really how it works. his offensive comments made on his show claiming 'Those who support the likes of Donald Trump, Viktor Orbn and Marine Le Pen have switched sides and have joined forces with Nazis and have no right to wear the poppy' his comments should be retracted and he The point was not to explore the issue, but simply to display open hostility to Farage, and maybe even trap him into saying something overtly racist. Aisha Majid is a data journalist at Press Gazette and New Statesman, having joined New Statesman Media Group in October 2020. James O'Brien absolutely destroys Conservative MP '30p' Lee Anderson for using his staffer 'essentially as a human shield' as he slammed food bank users. He is not a serious political commentator rather an entertainer. Read the latest listening figures for Global's radio stations, reporting on Q3 2021 and collected by RAJAR. O'Brien claimed this morning that the greater the uptake of the jabs and the boosters, the less chance there is of a fourth or a fifth wave of Covid-19. Although the BBC continues to dominate the radio market including speech radio, the corporation fared less well than its commercial rivals when it came to audience growth. Its audience tuned in for an average of 6.3 hours a week each, ahead of Times Radio (5.2hrs) but behind talkRADIO (8.8hrs) and LBC (9hrs). Now an activist for the anti-fascist organisation, Hope Not Hate, he tells James his remarkable story. Comedian Phil Wang has decided he's got to start being silly in response to a world which he thinks is getting serious. Earlier this year presenter Maajid Nawaz was asked to leave the broadcaster after tweets he posted linking Covid-19 vaccinations and conspiracy theories. GB News Chief Executive Officer Angelos Frangopoulos said: "NAfter just one quarter on air, we are already at 37% of our closest competitor's weekly reach, so this is an excellent debut, especially as we havent promoted the station yet.". If you like talk radio, then Ferrari followed immediately by Mike Graham is the way to go. I struggle to credit that either OBrien or (the then) Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Tom Watson, could have been taken in by such obvious fantasy, but they seemed to be so keen to believe that prominent people were involved in the rape and murder of children that they put aside all their critical faculties in order to convince themselves. Radio call-in shows generally only attract the weird and the extreme. Accessibility mode is off Are we all going to pretend that it isn't every bit as awful as most 'Project Fear' predictions? ", He finally asked: "How does Keir Starmer giving her a job somehow make her responsible for all of those things that led the metropolitical police quite independently to issue 126 fines? I like TalkRadio because, though there is a clear editorial line, they give air time to different points of view. Award-winning LBC presenter and best-selling author James OBrien hosts a series of compelling conversations with fascinating people. Audience figures released last week showed that home-working means were tuning in later, with breakfast shows no longer the biggest beasts in the broadcasting jungle. Ask why the vaccine manufacturers need legal indemnity or try to explain that the young and healthy appear to face greater risks from the vaccine than from Covid and your call will be terminated by medical experts such as Ferrari. We welcome applications to contribute to UnHerd please fill out the form below including examples of your previously published work. Ive better ways to spend my time than listening to an opinionated, intolerant, unpleasant host. Jobby did a comical handbrake turn and started being polite. Exactly. terms of use So although hes the best at it, OBriens not the only one on this tack. There is no room for any changes to be made to the new Brexit deal, No 10 has indicated following the announcement of the "historic" agreement. Ferraris audience figures were back up after slumping slightly at the end of last year. Subscribe for more: https://l-bc.co/subscribeThe latest videos from LBC: https://l-bc.co/LatestListen live to LBC on Global Player: https://l-bc.co/ListenNowNick Ferraris latest show: https://l-bc.co/3biHVvMJames OBriens latest show: https://l-bc.co/3ONyPVIShelagh Fogartys latest show: https://l-bc.co/3JkNEhaJoin in the conversation and listen at https://www.lbc.co.uk/ Sign up to LBCs weekly newsletter here: https://l-bc.co/signupLike, follow and subscribe to LBC!Website: https://lbc.co.uk Facebook: https://fb.me/lbcTwitter: https://Twitter.com/lbc Instagram: https://instagram.com/lbcThis is not your ordinary talk radio stream. The din created by the half-baked talking to the half-educated is horrible.. Why did LBC get rid of Maajid Nawaz and keep James OBrien? You know, open, honest debate. The exception was the BBC World Service which saw a large audience gain of 1.5m weekly listeners - a quarter-on-quarter rise of 22%. The only way this can possibly get better is if @photomikeyhere gives OBriens show a call. We know this because theres a simple measure of how a radio station sees its presenters: the calibre of the person chosen to sit in for them when theyre away. He has told us so often that Boris Johnson is Britains Donald Trump, that the two have eventually blurred into one, and a diatribe against the former is invariably laced with references to the latter. But after one particularly violent incident in South East London, Collins began passing on his secrets to the other side. Mike Graham on TalkRADIO is so much better. Pity as I was into talk radio at the time and was looking into alternatives. acceptable use Its no wonder our political culture is so pathetic. . Well he is wrong, always and about everything. He did know. Obviously. Most notoriously, told by Carl Nick Beech about VIP paedophile-rings, a conspiracy theory that hurt, But theres no doubt that this is the future of the format in a fractured and partisan world. I know this because I used to be one of them.. For years I really enjoyed his Thursday Mystery Hour but the constant belittlement of, and his hatred for, Leavers just did it for me. This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. LBC - listening figures How many people listen to LBC? James said: "What he did to this young woman by using her essentially as a human shield is that he turned the spotlight onto her. No. We also use cookies on for personalisation, analytics and ads. A proper debating arena demands that you can understand and describe to a sufficient extent the argument made by the other side. The latter comment seemed to be straying into conspiracist territory, a sometimes unclear but always present danger on social media. "She is single & earns less than 30k, rents a room for 775pcm in Central London has student debt, 120 a month on travelling to work saves money every month, goes on foreign holidays & does not need to use a food bank.". lbc listening figures by presenter 2021. Update: Q2 2022 RAJAR figures show growth at Talkradio and GB News. And were very glad they did because the response from OBrien no stranger to schooling people on Twitter was 10/10. In 2004, OBriens cover on Easter Monday was James Hewitt, famous for having committed adultery with Princess Diana; fifteen years later, it was Labour MP Jess Phillips. Lampard gave rather better than he got, though it is possible that he didnt quite grasp the nature of the phone-in. A leader column in the Sun spelt it out: This is racism, pure and simple: Romanians, he is suggesting, are criminals to be feared. Indeed he was, and he might reasonably have expected the Sun to be onside, given some of its previous headlines: Our crime wave is good news for Romania, Beasts from the East, Capital hit by 28,000 Romanian criminals. Apparently not, Mikey. REACHES A MASSIVE 2.8m LISTENERS, RADIO XS CHRIS MOYLES GROWS HIS BREAKFAST AUDIENCE TO A Your morning brew of news about the world of news from Press Gazette and elsewhere in the media. Was it? Essential reading for media leaders every Thursday. Katie Hopkins in 2017 and Maajid Nawaz this year both lost their LBC shows for Twitter offences. he asked, and Farage was nonplussed. Thats whats destroyed it. 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