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I realise not all of you listen to it but please humour me..Can someone please please please stop Dotun on the overnight 5 live/local radio saying the telephone number every two seconds! It's like a nervous tick...It's a shame as I do have to switch off some nights as can't stand it.. It's worse than his singing in my view that I can actually stand to a point as I am a rubbish singer too. (I was asked to mime in the school choir!) I know I moan every so often about the Dotun situation but someone might listen. I don't want them to get rid of him just get him to calm down a bit on the phone number....
 
Wood79 said:
I realise not all of you listen to it but please humour me..Can someone please please please stop Dotun on the overnight 5 live/local radio saying the telephone number every two seconds! It's like a nervous tick...It's a shame as I do have to switch off some nights as can't stand it.. It's worse than his singing in my view that I can actually stand to a point as I am a rubbish singer too. (I was asked to mime in the school choir!) I know I moan every so often about the Dotun situation but someone might listen. I don't want them to get rid of him just get him to calm down a bit on the phone number....
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I haven't listened for a while so haven't heard the singing 😂
It was the constant namedropping that put me off.
As an aside amazes me how someone can do the night shift for so long tbh. How on earth do you fit normal life around it?
 
Jelly Bean said:
I haven't listened for a while so haven't heard the singing 😂
It was the constant namedropping that put me off.
As an aside amazes me how someone can do the night shift for so long tbh. How on earth do you fit normal life around it?
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I don't mind the name dropping so much but yes he does do it still. I don't mind anything with him as much as the whole telephone thing it really winds me up. Ref Nightshift I know I guess you get used to it after all those yrs. He is a book publisher by day though which is what I think he got his honours for, so he can't sleep much...I do think though because he is not someone who will take holidays very often at times they get him to reduce his days like they did a few weeks ago..
 
Wood79 said:
I realise not all of you listen to it but please humour me..Can someone please please please stop Dotun on the overnight 5 live/local radio saying the telephone number every two seconds! It's like a nervous tick...It's a shame as I do have to switch off some nights as can't stand it.. It's worse than his singing in my view that I can actually stand to a point as I am a rubbish singer too. (I was asked to mime in the school choir!) I know I moan every so often about the Dotun situation but someone might listen. I don't want them to get rid of him just get him to calm down a bit on the phone number....
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I salute your indefatigability and perseverance regarding Dotun.
I can barely manage 30 minutes of him these days, sometimes sounds like he's talking in a fish tank.
 
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I caught the early part of Cristo Foufas' 5am TalkRadio show last Saturday morning, I soon switched over to music as I was off on a long drive but caught that he was talking about the waste in the BBC. I might have to listen back as he sounded funny and scathing on the topic, but the gist was about their institutionalised staff, adding that when he was at ITV and worked with ex BBC folk they couldn't handle the pace. He was on BBC Radio London overnights quite a few years ago, he's said that he always felt unwelcome there, he was never given a security pass and when he arrived every night security acted as if they didn't know who he was, then he was eventually let go by text.
 
Further to above: I listened back to Cristo talking about the BBC, he was talking about it generally, not just radio, but worth a listen. He was prompted by Tim Davie saying he believes most people are "happy" to pay the £159 TV licence fee. Cristo said he likes the BBC, he hopes they can change to save themselves, although he can find them biased at times, some of their journalism is very good, but thinks the licence fee is the most bizarre way of paying for it. He thinks a basic BBC service (eg BBC 1, 2, radio, a basic news website) should be provided from general taxation, with any extras to be paid for by subscription.

He said a BBC subscription model would give the people who worked there a more commercial mindset, giving an example of an assistant producer at the Beeb who'd been in the same role for 30 years with an attitidue of "I'm in now, I'm staff, I'll never get fired". Cristo was frustrated trying to get anything done when he worked there as it takes 30 people to make a decision. He recalled during the London bombings a local station was talking about odd socks. As there's no need to chase an audience you get lazy features, eg a local radio afternoon show asking "What's out your window?" (I'm guessing Jo Good's show 🤣).
 
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I caught the early part of Cristo Foufas' 5am TalkRadio show last Saturday morning, I soon switched over to music as I was off on a long drive but caught that he was talking about the waste in the BBC. I might have to listen back as he sounded funny and scathing on the topic, but the gist was about their institutionalised staff, adding that when he was at ITV and worked with ex BBC folk they couldn't handle the pace. He was on BBC Radio London overnights quite a few years ago, he's said that he always felt unwelcome there, he was never given a security pass and when he arrived every night security acted as if they didn't know who he was, then he was eventually let go by text.
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It doesn’t surprise me about BBC staff being institutionalised. It will be run like some areas of the civil service in many ways, not having to answer to anyone but themselves.

I once worked for a company that was a bit that like, where many of the staff had worked there for years and had certain ways of doing things. There was a real aversion to change and they hated anyone new joining the firm and trying to bring in fresh ideas and better, more modern, competitive methods of doing things. I can imagine the BBC being like this.
 
VeeJayBee said:
I caught the early part of Cristo Foufas' 5am TalkRadio show last Saturday morning, I soon switched over to music as I was off on a long drive but caught that he was talking about the waste in the BBC. I might have to listen back as he sounded funny and scathing on the topic, but the gist was about their institutionalised staff, adding that when he was at ITV and worked with ex BBC folk they couldn't handle the pace. He was on BBC Radio London overnights quite a few years ago, he's said that he always felt unwelcome there, he was never given a security pass and when he arrived every night security acted as if they didn't know who he was, then he was eventually let go by text.
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That's sad I like Cristo, used to listen to him alot when he did a slightly later spot on a weekend.
 
I asked this before but maybe people didn't have the answer. Does anyone know the payscale for BBC radio presenters? From local radio to national? Music vs speech?
 
Missylauren said:
What's everyone's thoughts on Greg James? I think he's ok but the impression I get from the show is that he is surrounded by hyenas that laugh at everything he says even if it's not that funny?
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yes! I used to like him, but now he’s so incredibly over the top woke it’s painful. The last hour of the show seems to just recap the first couple of hours too, it’s clearly too long for him. trying to remember a time where he hasn’t banged on about women’s football or Sam fender (sometime Foals or Adele to switch things up).
 
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