LBC News live

LBC News is the rolling news service operated alongside LBC, Britain's best-known commercial talk station, broadcasting on DAB and online. Where the main LBC service is built on phone-ins and strongly voiced presenters, the news channel is structured around continuous bulletins, headlines and reports on a short cycle — closer in shape to a wire service read aloud than to conversational talk radio. LBC itself holds a particular place in British broadcasting: it was the first legal commercial radio station in the United Kingdom, launching in 1973 a week before Capital, and for decades it was London's talk station before going national on digital. Its move from a local to a national footprint changed the character of British talk radio, giving commercial phone-in programming a reach that had previously belonged to the BBC alone. The two services suit different uses. The rolling news channel works when you want to know what has happened; the main station works when you want to hear it argued about. This page streams the live output, free and with nothing to install.