How to Use talk radio in a Sentence

talk radio

noun
  • He listens to business talk radio in the car.
  • The idea of sports talk radio was a novelty at the time their show took off.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
  • O’Brien, 33, has graying hair, sharp blue eyes, a thick beard and a husky voice fit for sports-talk radio.
    Zach Schonbrun Desiree Rios, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • And both teams have less than two weeks before the Bears start training camp and suck up all the oxygen on talk radio and in the media.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2023
  • Garrison, a former talk radio host, and Pence have been friends for more than two decades.
    John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The headlines might get smaller and the chatter on sports talk radio will likely decrease once the new coach is hired.
    Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 26 Jan. 2022
  • In a sign of the times and the end of terrestrial talk radio, the announcement was issued on Twitter.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Then there’s right-wing talk radio and Christian radio.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 21 Aug. 2023
  • On sports talk radio, there was passionate debate about whether Fields had earned the stature to take even a passing jab at fans.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
  • But the remarks hit a little wrong, and Garrett took heat on social media and on talk radio for them.
    Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The world of talk radio and podcasting is huge, and anti-vaccine sentiment is a small part of it.
    New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • But both formats — progressive talk radio and smooth jazz — have been off the air locally for a while.
    Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2022
  • That latter point may not be evident from the discourse in the Twitterverse and on sports talk radio.
    Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Listeners phoning in on sports-talk radio shows were fired up.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 2021
  • On New York sports talk radio, fans began to resign themselves to losing Judge.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The comedians — who met in the Bronx as teens — bonded over Yankees talk radio and Nineties hip-hop growing up.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2022
  • Once a sports talk radio host, Drew Forrester is now thriving in a sport that values the tradition of silence.
    Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 7 July 2021
  • This group of Fox News, Newsmax and talk radio fans needs no introduction.
    Nate Cohn, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Elder read aloud from Ang’s article on his talk radio show.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The ad is the latest to take aim at conservative talk radio host Larry Elder, who jumped into the race just six weeks ago.
    Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Around the time that Newsom was calling him out, talk radio host Elder was making his own rush of appearances to round up votes a few hundred miles to the south.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2021
  • There was some blowback to Bitonio's comments on social media, as well as on sports talk radio.
    Chris Easterling, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Post, a former talk radio host, has served in the Oregon House of Representatives since 2015.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Mark Levin, the talk radio host, scoffed at the notion that Mr. Trump had tried to overturn the election or instigate an insurrection.
    New York Times, 24 July 2022
  • Meanwhile, talk radio host like the late Rush Limbaugh waged attacks on climate science.
    ABC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Savage, a former conservative talk radio host who now has a podcast, served only a year on the board.
    Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 June 2021
  • Sports talk radio filled the airwaves with criticism of the move again Friday while local columnists derided the trade.
    Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Sports talk radio immediately ran with this hot take, suggesting Belichick was putting the blame on the Krafts.
    Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2023
  • But fans never full embraced Hall and routinely second-guessed and even savaged him on sports talk radio.
    Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Ebo makes effective use of faux TV news clips and especially of a Greek chorus in the form of fictional callers to a Black talk radio show.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2022

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