How to Use talk radio in a Sentence

talk radio

noun
  • He listens to business talk radio in the car.
  • That goes back to the talk radio.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 13 June 2026
  • That is what talk radio is all about.
    — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • This led me to share with my wife my aperçu about talk radio.
    — David Mamet, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • This column is their talk radio.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The idea of sports talk radio was a novelty at the time their show took off.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
  • His steady stream of commentary washed over me like sports talk radio.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • 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 former talk radio host has a calm, smooth delivery and is rarely rattled.
    — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • So with talk radio and media, people are going to second-guess you.
    — Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 18 Jan. 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
  • Internet chat rooms and sports talk radio shows across the state crackled with vitriol for much of the past week.
    — Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ultimately, gut reactions and draft grades are good for talk radio and clicks.
    — Mike Defabo, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • No angry sports talk radio fodder waiting to explode the next morning.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Right-wing talk radio hosts have been jumping into politics since roughly the dawn of mass media.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • However, he was asked whether the same rules would apply to talk radio shows, which tend to skew more conservative.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026
  • In Massachusetts, a talk radio host and a sign painter teamed up to repeal their state’s seatbelt law.
    — Christine Hauser, New York Times, 15 Oct. 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
  • Because for a long time there were basically three mainstream media networks, the right got good at talk radio.
    — Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 17 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • In the early 1980s, the line began to blur again with the emergence of talk radio and cable news.
    — Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Most of all, there’s a sense of Houser’s own wide-eyed dismay at the polarization of talk radio and cable news.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2023

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