talk radio

noun

: radio programming consisting of call-in shows

Examples of talk radio in a Sentence

He listens to business talk radio in the car.
Recent Examples on the Web The debate about Caitlin Clark being left off Team USA’s Olympic roster had national sports talk radio tripping over themselves with hot takes. Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2024 The former mayor has continued his false claims the 2020 election was stolen, and was fired from a talk radio station on Friday for continuing to make those claims. Vivian Barrett, The Arizona Republic, 10 June 2024 The 60-year-old Republican businessman shared the story Tuesday during an hour-long radio interview with conservative talk radio host Dan O'Donnell on WISN-AM. Jessie Opoien, Journal Sentinel, 22 May 2024 Ebola coverage became a staple of cable television and talk radio and even figured prominently in the U.S. midterm elections (as a telling sign of the global chaos supposedly sparked by Obama’s foreign policy failures). Laurie Garrett, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2015 See all Example Sentences for talk radio 

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Word History

First Known Use

1968, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of talk radio was in 1968

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“Talk radio.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/talk%20radio. Accessed 17 Jun. 2024.

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