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Limited value? Seemingly like your contributions to this forum. Nice of the forum troll to drop by.

You've got a fair point there - LBC don't claim to be a 'Nation Station', they don't need a taxpayer bailout and they don't claim to be an emergency service. I've also had visitors come from the UK who found it entertaining... But not in an informative way. They thought it was some kind of sketch show... Royston Vasey FM I think was how they described it.

Being extremely disrespectful to the emergency services.

Sadly to be expected. If anyone listens to any phone in show on LBC you'd quickly realise how poor the content on Manx Radio is.

Still waiting for that apology to the emergency services from Alan Partridge Mr Peters!

Use whatever colour and thickness of crayons you like. The facts remain the same. There is literally no comparison. The Isle of Man could continue to function perfectly fine (probably even better) without the sloppy, amateurish excuse of a 'national broadcaster' that is Manx Radio. However, I suspect we would all notice a difference if the police, fire and ambulance service disappeared. I'm sure there must be some people (although an ever decreasing number) that still like Manx Radio, so please don't get ideas above your station and start comparing your station to something of national importance. Manx Radio should recognise it's place, and not get above its station.

And that can't be put out to tender, because?

The point is Barrie that there is no need for the massive amounts of taxpayers cash being pissed away on Manx Radio to be wasted in this manner. And the fact that a talk show host feels his job is on an equal footing to those of the Police, Fire and Ambulance service is equally laughable as it is offensive to the emergency services. Although maybe it's easy to make that mistake when the output would actually be fit for a mediocre hospital radio station - that's about as close as they will ever come to being an emergency service.

Someone has to get through their hermetically sealed bubble up there on Douglas Head. There's no point pussy footing around the issue. It has to be said though that a large part of their content is utter dross. It's what happens though when your operation is bailed out by the taxpayer year after year, existing in some kind of alternative reality so far removed from the reality of budget cuts and having to meet budgets. I have yet to go into a shop, office or restaurant over here that has Manx Radio playing in the background. It's either 3FM, Energy FM or one of the UK national stations.

You can be under whatever impression you like. I guess by 'civil defence function' you mean sharing a few posts from the police on Facebook or re-tweeting the Steam Packet. Or you could just be talking bollocks as usual Barrie.

Are you honestly comparing yourself and Manx Radio to the Emergency Services? It shows the self-righteous regard that you lot up on Douglas Head hold yourselves in. All you lot at Manx Radio do is provide a crappy radio broadcast with an identity crisis. You lurch from trying to be some kind of current affairs service, to a Butlins Holiday Camp show through to some weird 1960's extinct radio station. It's a shame the Quayle Administration doesn't have the balls to pull the plug on that shower of utter sh*5e!