To yell at the Radio when Steve Wright comes on then turn it off?

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Ta! Grrrrrrr, why does he have to start with Ta, everyday?

Why does he have all the ridiculous fillers with the crap about BBC content/non content, web cams etc in the stupid voices?

Why is his show popular, I really must be missing something in my psyche as it makes me switch off every time he comes on.

And what's even worse is when Dale Winton stands in for him.

Seriously, then I'm entering into wrist slashing region

I totally agree. Far too much laughing at absolutely nothing and all this "Hi Steve, love the show" is just so annoying. Keep winding my DH up about putting a message on Love Songs for him as he hates him even more than me.

Cant say he bothers me, i haven't turned radio 1 on since i herd some dreadful creature called Edith on who obviously was struggling to speak English language.Incomprehensible even my builders turned it off

glad it's not just me!

I CANNOT bear any of it, as soon as I hear the intro music I switch to Radio 6 (if I haven't already, as Jeremy Vine's callers sometimes send me over the edge too).

If only they'd kept Mark Radcliffe in that slot permemantly.

My brother once sent in a 'love the show' email to Steve Wright... signed from me

upahill and foxter I completely agree.

Perhaps it should become the MN campaign for this week?.

I quite like listening to his show when on the school run

(runs and hides before getting beaten up)

I'm comin' after ya Tjackson!!! Run fast!!!!

Glad it's not just me either. I cannot stand him and his show. Hate the singing over the end of a tune and he puts on a stupid voice. grrrr

tjackson- I listen to it on the school run because I like the oldies, and then the fecker starts singing along and a get all .

Don't think I can get 6 in my car. I'm too old for 1. Love radio 4 but only if you've got time to listen to it properly. And commercial radio is half ads. So a bit

I've given up running now uphill im not taht fit lol

The good thing about Steve wright being so shit is that I discovered Radio 4 (ahhhh culture heaven!)...

Its the cheering I can't stand. Also, does he think its grown up and clever to deliberately say words incorrectly??

I cannot stand to listen to him. I'm ancient enough to remember his Radio 1 show from the 80's with the 'afternoon boys' and 'Mr Spoon' - it was shite then and it's worse now.

Most of 'The Factoids' are utter shite which raises my blood pressure to dangerous levels and I can't stand that Trans-Atlantic accent. Worse than Tony Blackburn's!

Please Radio 2. Enough is enough.

If you don't like him turn it off.

Before DS came along I was a radio presenter on commercial radio for 10 years - actually it's about 17 minutes of ads in an hour so not 50 per cent at all.

He has all the disclaimers in the show because you have to have them these days. I had to read stupid disclaimers everytime I did an on air contest because these days no-one has any common sense and suddenly everything has to be done by the Ofcom rule book and bugger how shite it sounds on the air. They are done in stupid voices because otherwise you wouldn't hear them. They stand out and do their job.

Radio two's listeners are all in their 40s and 50s. They remember him in his and their heyday back in the 80s and it makes them feel good listening to him. That's the rationale behind him being there. He can be a bit self indulgent but can't we all. He has his catchphrases which have made him famous and he has sound effects that ad to the theatre of the mind. The applause, the old woman, Tim and Janey are there because it's a "zoo format" show. It's supposed to make you feel like you are in an office/amongst adult company.

It's also worth remembering that he has some incredible listening figures. All thanks to the fact that the BBC does not have adverts because we pay a license fee. They have unlimited opportunities for cross promoting radio on tv and the web at no cost to themselves and they have huge numbers of staff to work on the programmes and trailers. Oh and they also have an advertising budget.
All this and there are just a handful of women on BBC Radio as presenters. Women are only taken on to national stations if they are already famous - not if they are actually good at radio presenting. I can't name one female commercial radio presenter who has made the jump to mainstream BBC recently. Most local BBC presenters are journalists who got lucky and had a go at being presenters. Then they work their way up with the help of the corporation and their producers and journalist co-workers.
Last time I tried to get in I got turned down for maternity cover on a Sunday morning gig for a local BBC station - you'd think with 10 years presenting experience with good listening figures plus 8 years as a journalist I might know what I was doing - but I didn't pass the "board". This is an exam akin to the entrance exams for Eton... if you do not pass the board you don't get in. If you have no-one to coach you, you don't get in.
It pisses me off that no-one ever seems to notice that there are no female presenters on BBC radio let along mount a MN campaign.

I'll get me coat!

Blimey radiohen Shut the door behind you will ya!!!

We're only having a ramble about our likes and dislikes and Steve Wright being one of them!! And those that don't like him DO turn him off, we've said that!!

Still think Radcliffe is the best radio 2 presenter EVER!!!!!

The thing is that I don't turn switch him on if I'm in the car Planet Rock is usually on but then I miss if Radcliffe has stood in for him.

YANBU. Agree totally with all sentiments, and that nonsense on a sunday morning is even worse. "Love the show Steve" ... aaaaargh!

Radiohelen - I'm with you on the lack of female presenters. However all the regulations in the world don't make SW a good presenter. He's a pile of crap and what gets me more is the other presenters commenting on how good he and the big show are.

His show is more than just a bit self-indulgent, it's patronising, and irritating. And I always turn it off. Radio 2 would get great listening figures no matter who is on.

he's a prat

this is hilarious!

imagine setting up an alert so that whenever Steve Wright's name is mentioned on Mumsnet, you dive straight in to post

then imagine a famous Radio 2 DJ had the same name as a suspect in a multiple murder case

and that your alert made you dive into post again

that would just be weird wouldn't it!

Reminds me of the Alan PArtridge episode with the nutjob fan

HAve you got a room with a blow up STeve Wright, RadioHelen?

(OK, slightly unfair)

vine is far far worse though

He's bad, but that self satisified, smarmy, smug git on with him is even worse.

Over Christmas Craig Charles covered for him, and I thought he was really good, and played some good music - I actively switched on in the afternoon instead of off!