BBC Radio One - Blood on the Carpet (2)

[@pauldurkee4764]

Bannister a news announcer promoted way above his ability. Last time I heard him he was fronting an obituary programme on Radio 4.

[@numberstation]

....and once Radio 1 had been fucked, Radio 2 was next.

[@augnkn93043]

The best controller will be the one that shuts Radio One down.

[@anthonyperkins7556]

I agree. It's braindead today...

[@PaulMappud]

I'd rather have DLT in morning now than the Ginger Tosser...

[@velvetcherrylips]

Ginger Tosser is correct!!!

[@adamgrimsley2900]

Isn't DLT in prison?

[@dlamiss]

@@adamgrimsley2900 No was given a suspended sentence

[@paulchallinor2420]

'Anarchic Funster Adrian Juste' - that description always make me laugh

[@harveysvintageaudio]

I was there in the late 70’s.....Matthew Bannister, what can I say, he sacked a majority of my acquaintances, what a pig !

[@oaksted338]

Danny Baker/Jonothon Woss ... what they got in common

[@johnking5174]

0:35 - Well now as of July 2022, it has been announced that Steve Wright is leaving Radio 2. He will remain with the BBC for other work, but it is seen by some as another axing of the old guard, just now at Radio 2.

[@BruceDanton-xw6eg]

And so sadly has since died of course too.

[@augnkn93043]

Do they still sell Daz?

[@southerneruk]

Radio is dead, it's internet radio now far better, and you get a real choice to what you are going to listen to

[@brucedanton3669]

Thank you!!

[@BruceDanton-xw6eg]

And so wonderful too.

[@christopherhulse8385]

Radio 1 isn't listenable any longer, neither is Radio 2, commercial radio isn't listenable either, radio is dead!

[@Loverboy19691]

RIP Radio one.

[@adamgrimsley2900]

Was awful

[@evertonporter7887]

Radio 2 is now like Radio 1 years ago...

[@EloiseDecember]

Bannister says he thought the BBC should support people who are "inventive, surreal and different". You mean untalented right? Like yourself. That is what you are trying to say isn't it?

[@michaelwhiles5282]

And R1 never recovered! Poor Steve Wright finally kicked out from the BBC despite huge audiences - did this have something to do with his sudden death ??????

[@BruceDanton-xw6eg]

Yes and very sadly of course too really alas I feel and reckon so too.

[@frankcurry6891]

Big L..Radio London had 16 Million Listeners. Now there was a Brilliant Radio Station.....and they outlawed it. Madness.

[@evertonporter7887]

Same with BRMB and Buzz FM here in Birmingham. They were replaced with blandness.

[@davedpg1]

Andy Parfitt needs to do a Bannister with Radio 1 today, only Moyles and a few specialist DJs are worth keeping at the moment

[@abhudson14]

Radio 1 as it is crap since Bannister run it down

[@johndunley4071]

Radio 2 has gone the same way Steve wright been axed from his afternoon show ,along with Paul o Grady,Simon mayo ,Ken Bruce is going to greatest hits radio ,they got owain wyn Jones,Ritchie Anderson on Zoe ball show and Scott mills in the afternoon all gay people all radio 2 dj,s being axed by the new controller they have lost a lot of listeners

[@johnrees]

Today in 2022 Radio One is utter crap and Radio Two is going the same way led by a complete bunch of none descript presenters.

[@meerkatandpug]

Why are so many 'businessmen' so clueless about business?

[@abhudson14]

big mistake by not playing status quo

[@_PatDog]

You've got very little taste. Status Quo catered for people who didn't like music and those who liked it bland and watered down.

[@pauljackson2409]

Only total morons like Status Quo.

[@abhudson14]

@@pauljackson2409 ha ha ha

[@johnking5174]

In 2022, BBC is now overtaken by the commercial counterparts for quality. Capital is better than Radio 1. Heart Radio and Greatest Hits Radio is far better than Radio 2. Classic FM and Scala are miles better and more welcoming than Radio 3.

[@tomstickland]

Danny Baker was far better than the people he replaced.

[@RetroCool73]

+tomstickland I'd say he was just different - Bannister replacing a greying 48 year old with a balding 36 year old was hardly courting "youth" - he was trying to recreate GLR. Danny is certainly one of the few people left in the media who is honest and getting dragged into the black propaganda of 'Bannisterisation' wasn't fair on him either. Furthermore, the quote here that "listeners tuned in expecting DLT and heard Danny Baker" is an example of that propaganda - Dave resigned mid-August, Danny took over his old slot the last week in October. DLT fans would have had to have spent 10 weeks on the moon to have tuned in expecting to hear Give Us A Break.

[@_PatDog]

I like Danny Baker but he's was not suited to youth type radio but at least he does not have the whiff of nonce about him unlike the Smashie and Nicey's.

[@markc8956]

Balls. Danny was awful,offensive and still very much is

[@augnkn93043]

Adrian Just epic DJ , almost as good as Danny Baker! Where are they now? Dead I hope!

[@anthonyperkins7556]

Adrian Juste is living and working in the states

[@MrLawman10]

Chris Moyles, no wonder Radio 1 is crap.

[@_PatDog]

Yeah but now bereft of Paedophiles.

[@geoffjoffy]

The old guard were right about Danny Baker: overrated and utterly boring.

[@dfcvda]

god what a disaster

[@harryurz]

Radio 1 was always awful.....they just made it worse.......

[@jamesmt142]

Adrian Juste doesn't come off well in this.

[@TheLizardmonkey]

The axings seemed whimsically unjust at the time - but if you factor in what Bannister probably knew and what the British public didn't - that Radio 1 was then and in the past, rife with political ominity and sexual transgressions, the sackings/changes make sense. (Bates would be a politically constructed dismissal)

[@GROMIT9]

And when he worked what Bannister was about to do he got in first and did in the press what DLT had done on air!. And all these axings ended up pointless anyway as all it did was lead to the Chris Evans fiasco in 1997 when he quit because they refused his request to go down to 4 days a week!)

[@youngian]

Totally Danny is still one of the best broadcasters around and maybe not for Radio One tastes. You get the feeling Bannister only put him on to get up DLT's nose. Which is fair enough.

[@RobinCarmody]

It wasn't. It really wasn't.