Micky Quinn on talksport

[Mullers]

You can press undo

I can't, I am using a iPod.

 

[tototoner]

No worries Mullers, thought u hit it in error

 

[parklane1]

Talkshite says it all.

 

[Shea]

People always say this about talksport. It costs 10p a minute to call them, so if there are calls for the entire day they make £144.00

Loaded!

They're not making the money from the calls, they're making the money by being wind up merchants and sparking greater debates that retain audiences and grow audiences leading to more advertising revenue

 

[absolute bobbins]

They're not making the money from the calls, they're making the money by being wind up merchants and sparking greater debates that retain audiences and grow audiences leading to more advertising revenue

I'll say one last thing about them as a station, The Matterface and Collymore commentating team is usually brilliant

 

[Bobbins]

People always say this about talksport. It costs 10p a minute to call them, so if there are calls for the entire day they make £144.00

Loaded!

That would make sense if they only had one telephone line!

They usually have around 15-20 people on hold at any one time, for every caller they put through (I know because I spent two summers doing the phones/assistant producer job (read: tea boy and general gimp) for Hawksbee and Jacobs). People on hold spend an average of about 15 minutes on hold, usually to be told 'thanks for your call sorry we couldn't put you on air today'.

So they'll have, say 5-10 callers for each phone segment actually get on air, which usually equates to around 150-200 callers in total, they get roughly 2k-4k calls a day, with shows like Adrian Durham generating the high multi-hundreds every day, and obviously they get more on Saturdays and around big games.

All their calls are tracked and the info given back to the advertising companies and the more calls they get the more advertising revenue they get, as they extrapolate 'active listener' numbers from those stats (e.g., someone who is actually listening attentively to the show and interacting with it in some way, is more likely to listen to the adverts, rather than say someone who just has it on in the background).

Calls are entirely used to generate advertising revenue, which is why it's so cheap to call them, but it's a nice little daily earner for them nevertheless.

 

[StartingPrice]

Why would folk get wound up by a bloated retarded turd who had some minimal ability with a football on an exploitative rip-off sensationalist radio station that gleefully relies on winding folk up to attract calls and give them profits?

 

[FITZ]

Micky Quinn is like that guy at the pub that tells you your own joke back and expects you to laugh. Moron.

 

[timfrancis]

I'll say one last thing about them as a station, The Matterface and Collymore commentating team is usually brilliant

Matterface is good, but Collymore is awful.....he just shouts "Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhh" when there's a goal and its usually over the commentary so you don't hear the description of the goal.

 

[Gambler]

3 times in last 2 days I have heard him come out with this.

"There will be 3 Welsh teams in the Premier League next season, Cardiff - Swansea and Gareth Bale "

He pinched that gag off the H&J show.

 

[SteveH]

Why would folk get wound up by a bloated retarded turd who had some minimal ability with a football on an exploitative rip-off sensationalist radio station that gleefully relies on winding folk up to attract calls and give them profits?

That was a rhetorical question.

 

[absolute bobbins]

Matterface is good, but Collymore is awful.....he just shouts "Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhh" when there's a goal and its usually over the commentary so you don't hear the description of the goal.

I kinda like that though, makes me more inclined to watch the match when I get home

 

[hutchiniho]

that would've almost made me want to ring up

That's the only reason they say such things!

 

[EastLondonYid]

He pinched that gag off the H&J show.

What a theiving scouser? .....

 

[StartingPrice]

That was a rhetorical question.

That would be an ecumenical matter

 

[absolute bobbins]

Drivetime tomorrow will either be "Are city all that?" or "Spurs won despite AVB not because of him"

EDIT:
There may be a bigger story for Durham to sink his teeth into now