talk radio

noun

1. a radio format featuring talk shows and listener call-ins.

Word History and Origins

Origin of talk radio¹

First recorded in 1985–90

Example Sentences

“I gave it everything I had,” O’Kelly said in an interview Tuesday, adding that he was proud that his show “was a true representation of what I wanted talk radio to be. ... I wanted to bring voices of people less often heard, viewpoints less often expressed and communities less often featured.”

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Erick Erickson, a talk radio host based in Macon, Ga., landed in the emergency room with severe clots in his lungs nine years ago.

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“Suddenly you’re on their Instagram, they’re commenting about you—nice stuff,” said the Brooklyn-born Sliwa, who has remained a New York fixture for decades through frequent TV appearances and as the host of a conservative talk radio show where he frequently railed about city politics.

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He was a popular Southern sports talk radio host by the ’90s, operated his own syndicated network in the 2000s, and by 2013 had become an inescapable presence on ESPN.

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Talk radio was just coming on board and they were on me.

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