Had I gone to a bigger market, I would not have been ready for it. At the start of the day, for example, I have no opinions, really none, on West Ham. One of the most high profile female sports reporter in US, Charissa Thompson has worked for Fox, ESPN and a prominent figure in sports journalism. TalkSPORT man moots exciting PIF signing to make NUFC a "Champions 'He looks like a new player' - TalkSPORT pundit left blown away by And a large part of that is down to Moz Dee, the former Radio 5 Live editor, who this year won Sony gold award for Station Programmer of the Year. Talk:Talksport - Wikipedia I helped give me a foundation. I used to listen when I played. A circumlocution, I'd say: unless the tradition is crudity and pig ignorance. Hot is seriously overrated by the media nowadays. (Lead anchor for NBCs coverage of the Premier League as well as an anchor for the companys Olympics coverage.). If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. It was a bit of a culture shock, yes. the women are just as good as these men are , if not BETTER WITH THE ADDED BONUS OF BEING ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS . fter a couple of days of listening to talkSPORT's output, there's an awful lot of things I know. I have just modified one external link on Talksport. I literally graduated from university (University of East Anglia in Norwich, England) on a Friday and started that Monday at talkSPORT working for free, just to get some experience and to see if I could impress and get my foot in the door. I think #BreakTheBias to me, is just allowing everybody to go about their business and just not be criticised for really superficial things. I think thats something talkSPORT now do really well, where as in the past they didnt, is they recognise that everybody should have a voice.. He previously worked for 20 years for Sports Illustrated, where he covered seven Olympic Games, multiple NCAA championships and U.S. Open tennis. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window). I tried to fix myself a glass of water but the water had been turned off because I did not have enough money to pay the bills. DIGITAL SPY, PART OF THE HEARST UK ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK. We were in Singapore for the Olympic bid, and our show was cancelled because of the London bombings, so we had the afternoon off. "Still," I say. I have learned that if you want 18-mil, cell four MDF, Selco, "Where The Trade Goes", has opened a new warehouse in Catford. talkSPORT is the world's biggest sports radio station and has exclusive live coverage of Premier League games, broadcast in the UK and around the worl See more 2,624,088 people like this 3,034,873 people follow this http://talksport.com/ Radio station Photos See all Videos See all 4:00 Adrian Durham thinks Arsenal's success falls down to luck! Theres no other reasons. Were analogies drawn, for example, with AM talk radio in the USA? "He was a fantastically colourful, charismatic personality," says Moz, diplomatically. Then progress could be made. 5 Best talkSPORT Presenters Ever - Best Radios "I was programme director for a wee bit before I went to 5 Live and we'd just started a new presenter and he rang me up and he says, 'Who's that on air?' "blast from the past" and all the rest. Or at least, he was. I liked James Whale and Charlie Wolf, oh and Mike Dickin. Listen Live: The Hit Mix The biggest hits from the biggest artists. Chelsea's Mason Mount in action with Newcastle United's Jonjo Shelvey and Isaac Hayden TalkSport presenter Tony Cascarino has claimed that Mason Mount would "fit really well" into the Newcastle United team amid uncertainty over the player's future. He now does a show with Saggers "and we've talked about it all," Saggers says. Thankfully theres more support now, she said. Another mexican who appeared in beauty peagents before taking a full-time sports reporting job back in mexico with Televisa Deportes. Credulity (talk) 18:17, 12 September 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]. Being sacked by Sky "is not something I really want to talk about," says Gray. It's true that it is still referred to, in certain quarters, as "White Van Man Radio". This has been fantastic rehabilitation for us both, the station, and the people who work here. I had no fear then and I walked into a reception and literally in front of me was a guy bigger than life wearing sunglasses, a cigar on the right side of his mouth, wearing a bright yellow blazer. Steve Bentley - a superb list! They just vanished.". . She started out as reporter for ABC7 Washington but her career quickly gave her bigger opportunities and now works for ESPN as a reporter and also write for ESPN website. "Well, it wasn't exactly planned," says Gray. I was paid 18,000 pounds a year and for a 21-year-old I was absolutely delighted with that. He's done the job for 11 years. Unless my assumption that it is two separate programmes is incorrect in which case it would be worthy of note. I would literally die. It covers sports. talkSPORT - YouTube I have reworded it for the moment, but it is being repeatedly reverted or changed. And they know all the presenters. I really don't think we need to detail every single programme on the station it's just too unwieldy. 3.4K. It was a six-month contract with the BBC on television. Home. ", It's a point that isn't lost on Moz Dee. About Us; Staff; Camps; Scuba. talkSPORT announces 2020/2021 on air lineup and new - News UK Richard also hosts a weekly sports media podcast. Britt McHenry played soccer in division 1 for Stetson University. Mainly, it was to write a cheat sheet for every guest they had on the phone and they probably had three or four every hour. Starting off as a runner,. talkSPORT shakes up schedule as Andy Goldstein takes the reins of Drive I had the chance to present Dirty Tackle before Nick Hancock, after Nick Fisher but it was talkSPORT who put my show out against DT, I was originally broadcasting on Sunday evenings only. And as far as I'm concerned it's gone now. I was there for a little over a year. It would be unlikely that Talksport and the BBC would be broadcasting the same programme - i.e. I'm also looking at the ratings section as needing a good clearout, because it's so shamelessly POV and far too long for the average reader to give a damn. Can future editors of this article try to bear in mind what I've said here about recentism, and look at this station in a broader historical perspective in which everything notable that has happened from 1995 (and potentially before) to the present is equally important. But in October 2002, I got a letter saying I had gotten to the next round of this search for a football reporter. ", Football has broken out of its ghetto. A number of football players have had a second career as writers or commentators. Kevin Hatchard Mark Saggers, the veteran sports journalist, tells me at length how he was "unceremoniously dumped" by the BBC and he's just as fervent in his love of talkSPORT. Cheers.InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 16:52, 16 July 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply], An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect TalkSPORT.com. . As part of a recurring feature, The Athletic will provide reflections from sports media people on the first fulltime job they had in the profession. It was, inevitably, a controversial signing. Kelner has spent more than 40 years . Under the header "Controversies" on the first bullet point: "a call from someone who wanted to shoot the Royal Family" ALL THE MEN (accept 1 or 2) ARE PIGHEADED IDIOTS wearing the same boring suites like some clown of a politician with the same views analysts had back in the 80s . The station was originally launched as Talk Radio UK in 1995. Not a pirate-radio ship. Andy Goldstein is taking over as the lead presenter of talkSPORT Drive, bringing his. Excuse the lack of vocabulary here, I'm into Law not Literacy so much. Thats why. I want to be chosen because Im good.. pic.twitter.com/4pTljPGOkG. It's four months since the pair left Sky and the trauma is still fresh on their faces. Meanwhile, Woods described one of the many experiences of misogyny shes had to deal with during her career, explaining a review she received from a male journalist in a national newspaper after she presented her second ever FA Cup match. Olivia Wayne. But the job was incredible. "And he has to be credited for the vision. "Why talkSPORT?" Registered in England. She started her career as a radio presenter back in the day. The fact that the left wing "intelligentsia" will support any murderer (Saddam, Guevara), tin pot dictator (Chavez, Castro) or nutter (Galloway) provided they are anti-Semitic and anti-American should not get in the way of the truth. Galloway does support Hezbollah. John Isherwood. I meet up with Stan Collymore, who's another 5 Live refugee. It needs to be trimmed back to remove the, uh less notable presenters/programmes. She than moved on to ESPN where she co-hosted shows like Numbers never lie, SportsNation etc. And then there's Alan Brazil, the Glaswegian ex-top-flight footballer, who now co-hosts the breakfast show. It's Everyman radio. It's now the sport of brickies and prime ministers (Cameron claims to be a Villa fan, although Sean Dilley tells me he's checked Hansard and in 2001 he definitely wasn't). And we owe them a huge debt for coming along at a time in our life when we couldn't have been lower than we were. They put me on from 6-7, R5's audience bit the dust and that was the end of Nick. "There's so many stories for us," he says. We were considered 'red-neck radio'. I said hello to him but I could barely get any words out. Roy Keane described as "warm" and "generous" by TV presenter The presenters are mostly (but not entirely - listen to their news team) male due to it, oh, covering sports. When asked what advice she would give girls hoping to one day work in sports media and are fearful of the abuse they could receive for being female, Woods said she would say what she would love to say to her younger self. Yeah theres a few blokes around, but theyre probably looking at you and thinking Phew, Im intimidated by her. But she turned to sports reporting/presenting and her career really took off. And now of course all the politicians want to come on. I made the following changes: When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know. Tommy Boyd Mike Dicken Nick. 5 Live is very straight down the line, middle-class sports output, whereas most of the footballing public are working class. It's the reason afternoons exist. Laura Woods is an English presenter working for DAZN, ITV, Amazon Prime Video and Talksport. This is explicitly a violation of the biographies of living persons policy. And they phone us up. We are here because weve earned it. I'm trying to be tactful, so I go for what I think is an inoffensive opening question. --tgheretford (talk) 21:19, 18 January 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply], I surprised it wasn't mentioned that Steve Wright was a presenter on Talk Radio in 1994, on the same frequencies (1089, 1053 AM) that only a year earlier he was broadcasting his show for Radio 1 before it went to FM. "It's not like the old days where if a female listener rang in, everybody would be like" he puts on a cave-man voice, and beats his chest: "WOMAN!". It seems as though the . And then Rod Stewart phones in. Photograph: Richard Saker. Carole Cadwalladr meets the "renegades and ne'er-do-wells" behind one of. But within weeks I loved it. Do it. At launch, the station featured presenters Paul Ross, Julia Hartley-Brewer, Sam Delaney, Jon Holmes, Jonny Gould, and Iain Lee across its weekday schedule. For me, a talkSPORT ingenue, it is Bloke-ish for Beginners, with the presenters leading me into alien territory (football, basically, but so minutely dissected that they could be talking about hare coursing or trout tickling); while the advertisements open up a world of products I didn't even know existed, much less ever imagined wanting. If they gave you a landline instead of a mobile, you would be like, Do you have a mobile? so you would not wake up the whole house when you called the house. But actually, so does Tristan from Islington. I mean, I used to answer the phones there and get people tea and coffee and now I am sitting on set talking about my career. I was the bottom of the food chain. Early life and education [ edit] Woods studied print journalism at Kingston University. And that I now wonder if there's any way I can de-know. Theres a lot of visibility in terms of presenters on air, but in management positions there needs to be more women and there needs to be a lot more understanding as well. And yet he gets in, that light goes on, and bang, he's there, and he's brilliant.". PSG superstar Kylian Mbappe suggested his next career move could be a surprising one after being pressed on his future as he arrived at FIFA's The Best awards on Monday. --Kiand 17:01, 15 February 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply], errrr no, merely pointing out that he has a point. I don't want them on ANOTHER MINUTE.' Tuning into talkSPORT is, therefore, to enter a strange, parallel audio universe, but it's also one that has become the broadcasting phenomenon of recent times. We had to effectively write the show in two hours and provide all the different links for Alan and Mike. Visual things, like the way you look, your gender, the colour of your skin, anything like that.. Ben White's post-match interview after Everton win says it all about Sad End Of An Era - Bob Roberts - Fishing information for the complete She shrugs. Luigi30 23:47, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC), I think that the comment about Jewish presenters may not be intended as anti-semitic, but as a point that there are no female presenters because of the content. One of the most prominent reporter who cover different sports in the US. Talksport's original line-up included Alan Brazil, Mark Nicholas, Chris Cowdrey, Geoffrey Boycott, Alan Parry, Peter Shilton, Brian Moore, Brough Scott, Tom Watt, Gary Newbon, Ian Darke, Tony Banks, James Whale, Ian Collins, Derek Hatton, and Mike Dickin. I want them off! '", There's something of the Church of the Second Chance about talkSPORT and the loyalty it inspires. The station has no female presenters. Regular guests Danny Mills, Matt Holland and The Daily Mirror's Darren Lewis as well as special guests, including the great and good of British football. I thought it was the greatest job in the world. Darren Gough takes huge pay cut to leave talkSPORT and become - mirror Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.9.46.14 (talk) 19:45, 12 February 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply], Just what we need, another left wing apologist for terrorism eh? IT MAY BE A MANS WORLD but its a womans REALITY . There is no way I would have the job I have today with NBC without discovering at talkSPORT that I had a work ethic. ", And then, slightly less diplomatically, he launches into a pitch-perfect Kelvin impression. I have no agenda and please refrain from personal attacks, its quite rude. David Salt. Because to tune into 1089/1053 AM is, basically, to take a crash course in blokeology. The bosses of the companies [I work for] normally call me if something happens and say Are you okay?, and that really helps. Phil Foden bags a brace as Manchester City advance past Bristol City, Simon Jordan claims Manchester United are five times bigger than local rivals City . And that Paddy Power is an actual person. The station has changed, Dee says, "partly by building credibility and dare I use this word? On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Looks like this section of the page needs revision. --tgheretford (talk) 12:05, 27 July 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply], Mr Galloway has frequently gone out of his way while broadcasting on Talksport to defend Jewish people from 'hate speak' which many callers have aimed at them. And he lives in Walthamstow." past talksport presenters - isgho-sup.com Please take a moment to review my edit. Then I got to the next round and then the finals and I won it. Laura Woods spent day apologising to former Newcastle star after "awful List of British football commentators This is a list of media commentators and writers in the United Kingdom on the sport of Association football . I haven't even bothered touching the presenters section, but it's pretty clear there's way too much information there. And it's not the first time I hear it. I dont think many 21 years olds get up at half-past two in the morning every day, five days a week, after just graduating. I know that sounds like a clich, but I learned so much that year because I really did not have the opportunity to do much in college. Weve all had to prove were not here to make up the numbers. She can speak German, French, English and even Spanish and has worked in Sky Deutschland and currently working for SkySports UK. Sport is so popular it's a religion. James Whale, Ian Collins, Charlie Wolf, Mike Dickin, Howard Hughes, Mark Keen, Mike Mendoza and Duncan Barkes are not sports presenters, and any mention of sports issues is stricly forbidden on their shows. fr It was bizarre. For a first job I really appreciate it much more 40 years later than I did at the time. A TalkSport spokesman confirmed that Gaunt was dismissed . Laura Woods', Natalie Sawyer 's, Lianne Sanderson 's and Faye Carruthers ' experiences demonstrate that even those who make it to the very top of their game still have to deal with obstacles,. Way way better than half of these women. I would sooner sleep with a wet labrador than some of these so called beauty queens!! Talksport hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy "Moz offered me a job when he came over three years ago," Danny Kelly, who presents an evening slot, told me. For the producer job, I had to get up at half-past two in the morning. Compared to ten years ago, representation of women in sports broadcasting has taken enormous steps, but theres still so much to do. So Id have a swim, get back on the Tube, and then go home and be in bed by a quarter to seven in order to do it all again the next day. Try a week on us. Weve made massive strides. And I said, 'It's this new round-up of news and sport we're just starting.' It was free-flow talk. As I recall it started off as the local rate 0345 105389 and at some point became a free 0500 number, before changing back to something that charged (possibly more than a local rate), but I don't know when these changes occurred. Since than she has move on to bigger and better things and currently working for FoxSports as reporter for Atlanta Braves and also host shows on Fox network. She has been part of SkySports UK team on and off for a decade now. I think weve all having to prove ourselves. The Manchester United legend worked alongside Woods for ITV's coverage of Manchester City's FA Cup win over . He covered everything. About three months after I took the job, the aforementioned girlfriend sent me a Dear John letter, breaking up with me. Freelance Radio Presenter. One of the most high profile female sports reporter in US, Charissa Thompson has worked for Fox, ESPN and a prominent figure in sports journalism. It's just taken the world a little while to catch up. Who is talkSPORT Breakfast host Laura Woods? One campaign that has helped in mobilising normalising female voices in football in particular and helping facilitating the change is Her Game Too a fan led campaign aiming to stomp sexist abuse out of football. Along with many other talented females in the industry, they face discrimination, stereotypes and bias every day, and at times it can feel like fighting a losing battle. The main producer of the show, an Australian guy named Gary, taught me so much in three months and he had a huge impact on my career. ", "I were gutted I missed it," his co-presenter, ex-England cricketer Darren Gough (aka "Goughie") says. And the anti-semitism charge is a load of nonsense. So it does make me angry when people say, 'White Van Man. Fucking 'ell. Once known as redneck radio for white van man, talkSPORT is the underdog that barked its way to the top of the tree. Hugh Woozencroft - Radio Presenter - talkSPORT | LinkedIn Things I never thought I'd ever need to know. What's the latest on Mason. I could not enjoy the weekends because I was exhausted, my body clock was all over the place. "I saw his name flash up on the screen," presenter Adrian Durham tells me the next day. When I joined talkSPORT, I was just doing it to make some money while I waited for my friend who was a year below me in college, and then we would set the world afire with our amazing comedy on the stages of Londons West End. "And some of the wisest men I've ever met have been in the back of a van. talkSPORT's newly appointed England Correspondent and host of Women's Football W e ekly, Faye Carruthers, gets the Saturday night slot to digest all the GameDay action at 7-9pm, alongside former.