The Candyman returns :)

[Gidget]

Tiddles,

You can email [email protected] to vent. Robey is the managing editor of BBC London.

[StraferJack]

"to face facts - this is a mainstream BBC station"

Not sure that?s strictly true

I know it (desperately) wants to be

I know they have spent years since the GLR days diluting and diluting (BBC LDN indeed!)

But it?s never been a big draw, much less a ?healthy mainstream audience?

And a city like London should have an odd local BBC station reflecting the mix and curiosity of the city and let LBC take care of the commercial side of things

Bracket BBC London in with the 6 Music and Radio 4s and nurture interesting things . As a station I?d be surprised if it cost as much as the glossy Radio 1 ads alone

[????]

I'm with SJ. If it's going mainstream then you scrap it and let people listen to Radio 5 or whatever or, given the remit of the BBC, you let some of the more outlying stuff, especially when it's around a unique talent such as DB go on and ignore the commercial/ 'audience' figures bit. I suspect he's tricky to 'manage' tho

[tiddles]

which is part of the fun!!

[steveo]

All the toys were spectacularly out of the pram and by making them part of his flounce, he effectively sacked Baylen and Amy Lame.

[Gidget]

Why not email David Robey and give him all your collective wisdom? Very surprised to learn Baylen and Amy only got fifty quid per show.

[*Bob*]

Interesting how sacked radio DJs who rant on-air are usually on BBC stations.

It's almost becoming something of a tradition.

[????]

...doing a Travis/Blackburn as it's known in the trade...

[*Bob*]

Evans / Moyles

[*Bob*]

harding

[Gidget]

David Robey came on Vanessa Feltz's show for the last half hour to answer questions about DB. Worth a listen on listen again, catch-up etc.

[StraferJack]

On his way to 5 live now

"'It is a good rule never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.'"

[Annette Curtain]

Yeaaaa

[StraferJack]

Anyone going to this tomorrow night?

http://www.stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com/snlf_events/danny-baker-danny-kelly/