Too Many Gays?
BBC Radio 2 has got too many television comedians "camping it up", the head of a commercial radio body has said.
Andrew Harrison, the chief executive of RadioCentre, which sof ot represents the UK's commercial radio network claims there are too many gay comics 'camping it up' on the nations most popular station the BBC's Radio 2!
Harrison, claimed hosts Graham Norton and Alan Carr were "end of the pier stuff" in The Daily Mail: "This is an iconic national radio station that is meant to be delivering public value and actually it has got TV comedians camping it up across the weekend schedule. It is true there are four presenters there across the weekend schedule each of whom have an iconic little slot, Dale Winton, Paul O'Grady, Carr and Norton. It is end of the pier stuff."
A spokeswoman for RadioCentre claimed Harrison was just commenting on the BBC's strategy review and hadn't meant to cause offence, while A BBC spokesman said: "Radio 2's weekend schedule features a wide range of programmes." Perhaps Mr Harrison is rather jealous of the large slice of the audience share the middle of the road station manages to secure, trouncing it's commercial rivals.
Jason Shaw
Jason is a writer and broadcaster, he is the UK correspondent for leading gay news website, GayAgenda.com and also writes for other news websites. His daily personal blog is www.seafrontdiary.com
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