How to Use talk radio in a Sentence

talk radio

noun
Definition of talk radionext
  • He listens to business talk radio in the car.
  • This led me to share with my wife my aperçu about talk radio.
    — David Mamet, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Before the vote, Clary took to talk radio to speak against the idea of a censure.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • She is best known as the sidekick of Howard Stern and a co-host of his long-running talk radio show.
    — Magi Helena, oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • His steady stream of commentary washed over me like sports talk radio.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • That led to the rise of conservative talk radio, Fox News, and (most recently) the alt-right.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 31 Aug. 2018
  • 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
  • Travis, 42, and Sexton, 39, bring a slightly different style and background to the world of talk radio.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 27 May 2021
  • In 2011, Román moved to Madrid and befriended talk radio host Enrique de Diego.
    — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
  • 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 again, the prevailing sense is if Soros didn't exist, Fox News and talk radio would have had to invent him.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The former talk radio host has a calm, smooth delivery and is rarely rattled.
    — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Then there’s right-wing talk radio and Christian radio.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Think The Gist but for a specific city, or sports talk radio but for city civics, or perhaps something that isn’t quite a metaphor.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2021
  • Zo Magic lasted one more week with a win against the Jets, but the future sports talk radio host was sent back to the bench after a blowout loss to the Falcons.
    — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • On Wednesday, Bevin took to talk radio to imply, yet again, that some form of voter fraud had cost him a second term.
    — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 6 Dec. 2019
  • 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 race to recreate talk radio online continues to heat up.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 19 Apr. 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
  • Later in the evening at the rally, a local talk radio station asked her to do an interview.
    — Nic Garcia, Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2020
  • Callahan asked Gonzalez in the 9 a.m. hour of the popular talk radio show.
    — Joshua Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
  • 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
  • Largely dismissed as a nuisance suit, it was relegated to talk radio, tabloids and the dank recesses of a new realm called the World Wide Web.
    — David Friend, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
  • Williams and talk radio host Jeff Crank are running in the primary, with the state party chairman receiving Trump’s endorsement.
    — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 June 2024

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