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Talk radio in the United Kingdom is popular, though not as much as music radio.

Nationwide talk stations include BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio 4 Extra and talkSPORT.

Regional stations include BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio Wales.

Many BBC Local Radio stations and some commercial stations offer a talk format, for example, BBC London, the BBC's flagship local station.

Other notable commercial talk stations include London's LBC which pioneered the newstalk format in Europe.

LBC currently operates two services in London-LBC 97. 3, a newstalk station on FM ; and LBC News 1152, a rolling news station on AM ; also, Talk 107 in Edinburgh.

There are many specialised talk services such as Bloomberg, a financial news station.