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Suzanne Virdee's sudden departure from BBC Midlands (September 2004)

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gregmc
Westy2 posted:
End of an era now.

Doolan has stopped doing his Birmingham Mail column, due to the BBC rules regarding presenters writing for newspapers(which was, ISTR, the reason that prat Gaunt left C&W after 2 weeks!)

Daz Hale on his own today at WM Breakfast, due to Jo Tidman being ill.



What about that BBC London FM Breakfast presenter.. John Gaunt or whatever his name is, who writes for The Sun? He still writes I think.
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seamus
I'm starting to get phantom pages on this thread. Should we start a new one?
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Seb
seamus21514 posted:
I'm starting to get phantom pages on this thread. Should we start a new one?


No
RM
Roger Mellie
gregmc posted:
Westy2 posted:
End of an era now.

Doolan has stopped doing his Birmingham Mail column, due to the BBC rules regarding presenters writing for newspapers(which was, ISTR, the reason that prat Gaunt left C&W after 2 weeks!)

Daz Hale on his own today at WM Breakfast, due to Jo Tidman being ill.



What about that BBC London FM Breakfast presenter.. John Gaunt or whatever his name is, who writes for The Sun? He still writes I think.


I don't think Jon Gaunt works for the BBC anymore, works for commerical radio now (Talksport or Capital FM or something)-- he slags the BBC off enough in his column anyway!
LL
London Lite Founding member
Gaunty spurts out his right wing waffle weekday mornings on Talksport.
RM
Roger Mellie
Martin Phillp posted:
Gaunty spurts out his right wing waffle weekday mornings on Talksport.


Thans for clearing that up! Sounds like his radio show is a verbal version of his column. Bushell-lite! Wink
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Westy2
I knew about Gaunt, Talksport & The Sun anyway, but ta !

(Slightly off topic, anyone hoping for the News Of The World to get a 'good kicking' legally over this court case?)

'Tidders' was back with Daz Hale today.

I didn't hear all the conversation, but I think Jimmy Franks is off WM tonight & making his debut on a very late slot is Er Er Les Ross !
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sda|
The Central News bus is in Skegness of all places today and tomorrow, I'll try and get some nice pictures of it for us all to gawp at.
SD
sda|
Too many chavs at where the bus was, therefore I called the whole thing off. The bus had already gone before I got there.

I saw someone wearing a Central Tonight Crew shirt though at a petrol station, so all was not lost.
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brotherton sands
sda| posted:
The Central News bus is in Skegness of all places today and tomorrow, I'll try and get some nice pictures of it for us all to gawp at.


I've not watched CN for aeons.

I take it that CNeast and CNwest both have a bus each?

As this is the CN west thread, your post implies that just one bus is being sent around the whole midlands, which I can't image would be so, because viewers in each sub-region would think that the bus visiting a "foreign" (so to speak) town/city would seem bizarre.

Also, in practice doesn't CNeast really only stretch into the south- west of Lincolnshire, rather than right across the south of the county to the coast? Every childhood holiday I went on to Skegness, the TV in our chalet/caravan/whatever always showed Yorkshire Television on button/channel 3, and sometimes Anglia on button/channel 5 too.

Editorially, CNeast and EMT might well like to think that their region isn't quite entirely land-locked, and includes the Skeggie (etc) area. But I can't image that realistically any/many viewers in the Skeggie (etc) area would actually choose to point their aeriels towards a fundamentally "inland" region.
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CentralWest
So a new subregion for Central South West.

Will there be an opt-out during CNW?
TV
tvmercia Founding member
Work of Artifice posted:
sda| posted:
The Central News bus is in Skegness of all places today and tomorrow, I'll try and get some nice pictures of it for us all to gawp at.


I've not watched CN for aeons.

I take it that CNeast and CNwest both have a bus each?

As this is the CN west thread, your post implies that just one bus is being sent around the whole midlands, which I can't image would be so, because viewers in each sub-region would think that the bus visiting a "foreign" (so to speak) town/city would seem bizarre.

Also, in practice doesn't CNeast really only stretch into the south- west of Lincolnshire, rather than right across the south of the county to the coast? Every childhood holiday I went on to Skegness, the TV in our chalet/caravan/whatever always showed Yorkshire Television on button/channel 3, and sometimes Anglia on button/channel 5 too.

Editorially, CNeast and EMT might well like to think that their region isn't quite entirely land-locked, and includes the Skeggie (etc) area. But I can't image that realistically any/many viewers in the Skeggie (etc) area would actually choose to point their aeriels towards a fundamentally "inland" region.


i would imagine the bus is shared between east and west given that neither programme uses it everyday?

skeggie might be on very the fringes of the central area but many midlanders visit, especially at this time of year - so it's not entirely surprising they took the bus there.

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