I am asking everyone what is their favourite radio programme in south yorkshire?

I am wondering, as I dont think that there can be anything other than "Nick At Night" an Hallam FM between 11pm and 1am. I have been tuning into this show and I think that it is getting better and better.

This is my opinion though.

i like nick to but hursty and danny and jo jo in the mornings is well funny thay got to be the best i been on nick at night to chat about what he was saying about fat women cant be mothers i had a right go at him cos my mum is big and she is a good mother he is gd but he upsets alot of people

He was good when he actually hosted real debates when he first started, but I get the impression this didn't suit the station much.

He's gone all 'ugg' since, so I've given up listening.

The trailers for his show have improved in the last month or so, but not enough for me to want to be agitated by eejits at bedtime :D

I can come here and choose what I get involved in ;)

I find big john @ breakfast funny particulary the stuntman i also like phoneboy in the evening

What about the Toby Foster show on Radio Sheffield.

It puts a smile on my miserable face of a morning.

I dont listen to Hallam much as the adverts get right on my nerves. When you're stuck in a van most of the day, listening to the same ad's repeated over and over gets too much.

Is nobody going to vote for me, Boppin Bruce on BBC Radio Sheffield, Saturday mornings for 7 years playing Rock'n'Roll music.............I guess not

Do you know I have suddenly realised I don`t listen to the radio enough.

Will try to catch what you have all recommended.

Thank you

My favourite radio is radio 2 on a saturday morning from 10 am you have got Johnathan Ross then two further comedy shows between 1 & 2 excellent Radio.

i just love big john @ breakfast on Hallam in the morning and the afternoon a bit of Colin and Edith on Radio 1 - Brill. :-)

It has to go to Scotty McClue (of yesteryear!)

I dont get on with Radio Sheffield anymore, its not the same without Cappo.

Radio Sheffield would be ok with a bit more music and a lot less left wing politics. Rony Robinson never shuts up about Royal familly, miners strike etc. Should licence money pay for broadcasters own opinions or entertainment for the people who listen?

Praise or Grumblep BBC Radio Seffield - on y eighth pint of Stella - so appologies for misreading the Q - if i have :S

Ive just thought of another good one...The Now Show on Radio 4 sat 12:30 pm.

Im usualy out and miss it so I listen to it on listen again through the BBC web site.

Good stuff.

Sat morning Radio 2 - gotta agree with that.

Local radio - Scottie McClure is a legend (i have his video somewhere, 50p form a charity shop) or there is a camp guy on Real radio in an evening which if im out in the car i will put on, he's quite funny and lets face it there there is only dingle sorry phone boy on Hallam

Originally posted by tom_a_west
I am asking everyone what is their favourite radio programme in south yorkshire?

I am wondering, as I dont think that there can be anything other than "Nick At Night" an Hallam FM between 11pm and 1am. I have been tuning into this show and I think that it is getting better and better.

This is my opinion though.

Are you serious? This guy thinks he's an authority on everything and he only talks to callers with a low intellect. As soon as anyone challenges him with a tiny bit of knowledge he just cuts them off or worse still talks his argument and mutes them so as to make it sound like they are stunned into silence by his amazing revelations.

He's just like a spoilt kid that thinks he knows everything.

There's miles better phone in programmes that this self indulgent drivel.

I agree that Radio 2 seems to have it spot-on, certainly for us thirty-somethings, but as it's a National Station it doesn't answer the initial question here.

So what have we got? Hallam - predictable and noisy; Real, better choice of music but still the same songs all the time. (Have they changed what records they play on their Golden Hour since the station came to air? I think not!)

Radio Sheffield, it could send me to sleep. The average age of Rony Robinson's listeners must be 78. For a brilliant local BBC station try BBC Radio York. Unfortunately, they're not going digital yet so the only place I can listen is in the car and at home.

I cannot listen to talk shows at night whilst trying to get to sleep. So really, I think - on a local level at least - that leaves Magic which caters for my musical tastes and yet which, along the lines of Radio Sheffield could and should be so much better.

Frankly, I gave up on Radio Hallam around the time of the Royal Wedding - Di and Chuck!

Originally posted by Ousetunes

For a brilliant local BBC station try BBC Radio York. Unfortunately, they're not going digital yet so the only place I can listen is in the car and at home.

! [/B]

Radio York can be found on the internet

:thumbsup:

You sure owdlad? Last time I looked I could only get their local news bulletins. I'll have to have another look. Thanks:thumbsup:

Owdlad - you are a star! I've found it. Wahoooooooooooo!! I'm now going to pretend I'm sat outside Bar 38 overlooking the Ouse.

Have an interactive pint on me.:clap: :clap: :clap:

Martin Kelner!

Fri & Sat Nights from 10 on R. Sheffield.

He's a local legend, originally on Hallam.

Wonderfully rambling, unnecessary pointlessness. But somehow compulsive listening...

Radia sheffield 2pm-6pm on saturdays- that the only thing u need to listen to :D

Used to love listening to Scotty McClue! That was ages ago, wonder what happened to him?

For me it has to be Toby Foster. He's given the Classic Rock Bar so much free publicity over the last year through texts to the station and through putting Sass on air from his hospital bed - a classic! Although he kept promising him grapes and they never turned up! Booo hisss.

They must have gone to the wrong ward.

although it is a few years ago without doubt the best radio presenter to ever grace the airwaves has to be james h reeve. james presented the phone in program on hallam at night from 1994 to 1995. he replaced roger kirk who started the phone in in 1991. although not to everyones taste james was a true showman who was highly intelligent and deeply amusing. there was not a subject he did not have an understanding of. it would be great if he were to return to hallam sometime in the future.

Think Hallam FM generally does quiet a good mix of music, as does Galaxy 105.

But how annoying is Jo Jo of Galaxy's breakfact programme? The sound of her voice has the same affect on me as nails down a blackboard. She sounds so common and dumb!

I meant quite.

Quiet is what Jo Jo should be!

To be honest I now listen to Sheffield which I have rarely done in the past.
Rony's an old warrior who was on in the 70s which is probably the last time I tuned in until about a year ago or so.
Radio Sheffield has changed for the better in my view, Jimmy Carroll and Toby Foster are usually the ones I listen to simply for there sense of humour.
Nicks alright (Margr) but thinks he's the only intellegent person in Sheffield which he is not.
I am a fully paid up listener to radio 2 on Sunday, must be my age but I like radio a lot.
Oh and old Bernie Clifton is a good bloke to.
Does he still have the joke shop in Chesterfield.

has to be toby foster ,top bloke .if only for winding up the entire teaching population of south yorkshire when it snowed and cheering me up for the last 13 weeks while ive been of work with a broken wrist ill miss him now im back at work :(so if you read this mate ta

For my choice of music I choose digital radio [Planet Rock and The Arrow] but sadly I dont reckon the presenters. Hallam and Gallaxy are just rubbish, rap and RnB get right up my nose. Now I just keep swopping channels. Sad intit ?

if i gave my most fave radio progs, it would b kerrang radio untill 11 in the weekdays and untill I go 2 bed.
Nick at night only on hallam, no other part of hallam.
Talksport while i am in bed falling to sleep and hoping that I do b4 the timer on the PC turns itself off

Roger Moffett’s morning programme on Radio Hallam used to be quite entertaining. The old bugger used to love to rant on about anything and everything....and when Anthony Blunt was exposed as a traitor…..Roger’s blood pressure went through the roof……. :rant:

Best Radio, Saturday Mornings BBC Radio Sheffield, Jimmy Carrol, dead funny punters, quick and sharp presenter who unlike Johnathan Ross, lets & likes his guests/callers to talk and finish ! It's a brand new show every week, it's laugh out load, and brill.. even NickleArse.. agree's give him a go.. you'll get hooked.. dead funny..

These radio presenters seem to all be the same. All gob****es and extreme left-wing in their political persuasion.

Originally posted by wayne2440
although it is a few years ago without doubt the best radio presenter to ever grace the airwaves has to be james h reeve. james presented the phone in program on hallam at night from 1994 to 1995. he replaced roger kirk who started the phone in in 1991. although not to everyones taste james was a true showman who was highly intelligent and deeply amusing. there was not a subject he did not have an understanding of. it would be great if he were to return to hallam sometime in the future.

Oh yeah - forgotten about James H Reeve. He was so sarcastic. He had to be one of the first 'shock jocks' on South Yorks radio. When he first took over from Roger Kirk he had a right go at all the old dears who rang in for help finding Rover or Tiddles. What happened to him?

There was another one I think just after James H Reeve who did the night show but left very quickly and it was all very odd and hush-hush. Any scandal there?

Love Toby and his producer Jamie is brilliant but wish they'd go back to the afternoon spot. Toby never seems fully on form in a morning as he used to - are you not fully awake Toby?

Is that bloke on his ostrich still doing the afternoon show?

The news output on Radio Sheffield has deteriorated in the past year.Poor old Everard.He is dragged out on the hour to read a pathetic jumble of PR-led stories that ought to be binned.
Yesterday I switched on to the 8am news bulletin to find out what had happened in the region since the day before.A
million people out there doing so many things.And what did we get:four items.
Boots the Chemist ...a survey reveals blah blah.
Chesterfield ...a new park opens blah blah
House Prices ..a national survey shows that prices blah blah
And finally in Barnsley a viewing platform has been built blah blah..
That was it.
I suspect that sport so dominates the schedules that local and regional news is just an irritating intrusion among the hysterical
yelps of the football commentators.
It's a sad station these days.

Originally posted by BAZZO
The news output on Radio Sheffield has deteriorated in the past year.Poor old Everard.He is dragged out on the hour to read a pathetic jumble of PR-led stories that ought to be binned.
Yesterday I switched on to the 8am news bulletin to find out what had happened in the region since the day before.A
million people out there doing so many things.And what did we get:four items.
Boots the Chemist ...a survey reveals blah blah.
Chesterfield ...a new park opens blah blah
House Prices ..a national survey shows that prices blah blah
And finally in Barnsley a viewing platform has been built blah blah..
That was it.
I suspect that sport so dominates the schedules that local and regional news is just an irritating intrusion among the hysterical
yelps of the football commentators.
It's a sad station these days.

That will be the same station that's just won an industry -recognised nomination for the high journalistic quality of its morning news, and specifically for Everard Davy as News Journalist of the Year.

http://www.radioawards.org/winners05/win05_b7.htm

I listen virtually every weekday morning and I've never heard a "pathetic jumble of PR-led stories" - just very well presented interesting local and national news.

Originally posted by tom_a_west
I am asking everyone what is their favourite radio programme in south yorkshire?

I am wondering, as I dont think that there can be anything other than "Nick At Night" an Hallam FM between 11pm and 1am. I have been tuning into this show and I think that it is getting better and better.

This is my opinion though.

Instead of tuning into a South Yorkshire station between 11pm and 1am on weekday nights try tuning into Minster FM on 104.7. You should be able to pick it up very well especially if you live in North Sheffield. At this time they join up with radio stations from all over the country for a phone in called North versus South Divide. It's very entertaining and they seem to filter out the brain dead louts which ''Nickelarse'' appears to think are compulsive listening.

Originally posted by JBee
Think Hallam FM generally does quiet a good mix of music, as does Galaxy 105.

But how annoying is Jo Jo of Galaxy's breakfact programme? The sound of her voice has the same affect on me as nails down a blackboard. She sounds so common and dumb!

Tell you what though, Jojo Moorhouse is the most loveliest person you could ever meet! Really down to earth along with Danny and Simon, which is more than can be said for John Harrison, who seems to think that he is Mr Hallam.

Umberto on Real Radio is so embarrasingly cringeworthy it's sickening. The man is sooooooo fake, his pretend camp/yorkshire voice makes me want to bite my arm off. :gag: :gag:

real radio is good but they could do with putting more heavy rock on as would all the other radio stations but they can do that it would upset too many people. what this city needs is a radio station that just plays heavy rock music. there is other stations what plays the same boring crap music, hallam fm is bad radio sheffield as got worse it as never been the same since they got rid of tony capstick now he was a true music man. radio 1 plays bands what people have never heard of and galaxy 105 now that should be on another planet somewhere like mars. real radio plays all the golden oldies some I quite like especially the ones from the 1960's -1970's the rest is crap and as for umberto he is a superb chap he always makes me laugh he reminds me of somebody I use to know he was like him very camp. I have heard that there is another new radio station as gone on the air waves and that is rother radio it is running for a 3 month period just to see how the radio mast lies. but give the people what we want and that is a radio station that plays non stop rock music.

real radio is good but they could do with putting more heavy rock on as would all the other radio stations but they cant do that it would upset too many people. what this city needs is a radio station that just plays heavy rock music. there is other stations what plays the same boring crap music, hallam fm is bad radio sheffield as got worse it as never been the same since they got rid of tony capstick now he was a true music man. radio 1 plays bands what people have never heard of and galaxy 105 now that should be on another planet somewhere like mars. real radio plays all the golden oldies some I quite like especially the ones from the 1960's -1970's the rest is crap and as for umberto he is a superb chap he always makes me laugh he reminds me of somebody I use to know he was like him very camp. I have heard that there is another new radio station as gone on the air waves and that is rother radio it is running for a 3 month period just to see how the radio mast lies. but give the people what we want and that is a radio station that plays non stop rock music.

Originally posted by samc
Oh yeah - forgotten about James H Reeve. He was so sarcastic. He had to be one of the first 'shock jocks' on South Yorks radio. When he first took over from Roger Kirk he had a right go at all the old dears who rang in for help finding Rover or Tiddles. What happened to him?

There was another one I think just after James H Reeve who did the night show but left very quickly and it was all very odd and hush-hush. Any scandal there
?

james h reeve left hallam and went back to manchester and presented an afternoon slot on bbc gmr. he later presented on talk radio at the weekend but at present i dont think he is on the radio what a travesty!! what a waste of talent!!

the guy that took over from james h. was called mark meadowcroft he was a smug southerner and was not nearly as good as he thought he was. in some ways he tried to copy james h reeves clever and sarcastic style but he never really managed to pull it off. he left very quickly after publicly saying that the single that was released after the dunblane massacre was sick and inane. the controller of programming at hallam went to the studio late at night and removed him from the studio. he was never heard of again.

Thanks Trainwalker for filling in the memory gaps - it was Mark Meadowcroft who left under a cloud - never knew why until now.

I was a big fan of James H Reeve.
I think he quit Hallam because he got bored of commuting from manchester area every time he did a show. He is a minor celebrity in Manchester I believe and has a busy schedule of hosting events and after dinner speeches. He was also used by Manchester City Football club for hospitality.

He did go a bit strange though, and got involved with a seedy court case with a girlfriend who was very young.

I have a web page full of james h reeve jokes and details about his court case and occasional updates about where he is working now.
He also got extremely upset with the BBC who sacked him for something he didn't say. You can find links to that too - I'm sorry but it seems that some of these external links have now gone.

James H Reeve Website (http://www.rocknroll.f9.co.uk/comedy/james.html)

thanks for the input guys. james h. was sacked from greater manchester radio (gmr) for allegedly making racist comments but this was not true. he also ended up in court for allegedly stalking his former girlfriend (which james denied).

although james was not liked by all listeners of hallam he was brilliant. i hope that one day he returns to the airwaves so that we can hear the genius broadcasting again.

a fact that not many people know is that the h in his name stands for hengist. so know you all know he was james hengist reeve.

Im so glad to hear that J.H. Reeves is still around! he was a truly class act - I used to laugh myself to sleep listening to his late night chat on Hallam FM.

I also remember Roger Kirk, he presented 'Nightowls' on Hallam and halfway through his show he would play a request song for somebody, I remember as I sent in a request for a song for my sis's birthday and he played it!! he was the nice guy chat show host. Abit like Jack Killian or 'Midnight Caller - remember that!:cool:

Mark Meadowcroft was a smug git, he thought he knew everything about everything and just didn't have a sense of humour at all.

aaaaah the memories . . . . :rolleyes: I started off the thread in the link below to try and find out about all these guy's and am so glad that this thread has answered a few questions.

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40732

Galaxcy 24/7 in my house
fri/sat nites great tunes love it
iv even recorded my telly programes rather than switch galaxy off sad arnt i lol (only wkends)

............

I was going to do a Poll (I like polls) on fav radio station, but I used the search facility (it worked) and found this thread.

I listen to GalaxyFM, the only station I listen to, I am a big fan of dance/R&B/soul, although you wouldnt guess if you saw me.

Fav DJ`s on the station are :

Steve Sutherland (one reason why I dont go out on Saturday night)

Andi Durrant (Another reason why I dont go out on Saturdays)

Dave Kelly (he is on every night)

Galaxy FM (http://www.galaxy1056.co.uk/default.asp)

Originally posted by duran36
Best Radio, Saturday Mornings BBC Radio Sheffield, Jimmy Carrol, dead funny punters, quick and sharp presenter who unlike Johnathan Ross, lets & likes his guests/callers to talk and finish ! It's a brand new show every week, it's laugh out load, and brill.. even NickleArse.. agree's give him a go.. you'll get hooked.. dead funny..

Ooh, can't agree with this I'm afraid. Jimmy Carol sounds like a desperate old man, trying to be "on the edge" who just doesn't get it. It's like teaching your nan to text, they might eventually be able to do the mechanics, but they'll never get dead comfortable with it.

Daryl Denham on Hallam FM is great Saturday morning radio, truly inventive. What does Jimmy Carol do, the same boring competitions every week. He just gets old people on the phone and asks them what they're going to do that afternoon.

And, I tuned in after a four month break, and he was still doing that silly Conect 3 (like Hallams Connect 4, only one less).

I studied radio at Uni, and we were told that BBC local radio can do reasonably well in the listening figures because so much of their audience are old people, who don't retune out of habit.

Having listened to Radio Sheffield for two years (Im from Glasgow, where we just get BBC Scotland) I think that Toby Foster in the morning is far and away the talent on there. Inventive and creative, and totally natural. He'l not be there long.

Roni Robinson is OK but the rest? Puh-lease.

Antonia Brickell sound like some kind of Alan Partridge character. She reads all her links, which is a real problem as it sounds like she cant read!

I listen to Hirsty (Galaxy), Toby (BBC), Go to work, come home, telly, Nick at Night (Hallam)

Plus, if you ever go to Manchetser, listen to Justin Moorehouse on Key 103. Like Toby, only with adverts.