Chris Moyles is very very angry...

[ampersand]

For badmouthing his employer in public? I've seen people fired for far less than that!

[sifi]

100%. he's mentioned it several times throughout the years. whatever references that say otherwise are wrong.

[Gre]

Its his job to be a radio personality on a breakfast talk show.

He talks about whats going on in his life every day.

[oafc0000]

Normally I'd defend Moyles here, although it was unprofessional he'd obviously planned to talk about it & I see his point.

The bit I didn't like was in reply to a text, where he basically said "You know nothing about my life, f**k off". Two things

1) One of the selling points of the show is that you (supposedly) put a lot of your personal life into it.

2) If you don't want people to draw assumptions and comment on your private life, don't mention your financial woes to 10 million people.

[Ed209]

It's everyone's right to complain about it, as it's his right too, rather ironic to whinge about him whinging. Personal attacks on him are unfair is my point, especially if you never listen to the show, as clearly lots of people who've been complaining about him have not.

[llcoolphil]

Similarly Radio 5 is unlistenable to in the mornings (IMO) as Nicky Campbell views his own opinions as much more important than those of the people they are interviewing.

[Steve P]

I agree absolutely about the f*ckwit Campbell, I find him totally unlistenable. The thing for me about Radio 5 is that they seem to want to make everything controversial all of a sudden, even Victoria Derbyshire. If I have an early start, I'll listen to the financial news show at 5.30, but it's R4 all the way for me now. Peter Allen at teatime is still a 'kin legend mind!

[rachbon]

it doesn't matter if you think he doesn't deserve as much money, he's a fat annoying bastard etc..

he's doing a job and he should be paid for it. if he's not been paid two months in a row, he is right to be pissed off!

i don't know the ins and outs of it, but if he's spoken to them about it and they still haven't paid him - what is he supposed to do?! i think he was quite right to have a rant about it to maybe shock them into actually sorting out his wages.

yes, there are skint people who can barely afford the licence fee (i'm one of them) but i think it's ridiculous to assume that just because he's a high earner means he can do without two months wages! he still has bills and a mortgage to pay. he's turned up for work. he should be paid for that work whether he's shite at it or not.

Edited September 23, 2010 by _rachelbon

[eFestivals]

My issue with radio 1 in general is that almost all shows are more focused on the presenter than what they are actually presenting. Here's an off the wall idea, let's try making the music the star of a music station. Similarly Radio 5 is unlistenable to in the mornings (IMO) as Nicky Campbell views his own opinions as much more important than those of the people they are interviewing. So much of the BBC's output has become obsessed with presentation. As license fee payers, I think we have the right to expect the content of the programming that we're all paying for to be the most important thing. At the moment it isn't.

I agree with the sentiment, but the whole idea of presenters is one of personality - and so they become by default more important than the non-them content they present.

[eFestivals]

Radio 5

hey, don't go slagging off Radio 5 - I was interviewed on there a few months back, and I'm now a star in my local where some of the regulars heard it and recognised my voice*.

(* they didn't know what I did up till that point)

[Steve P]

hey, don't go slagging off Radio 5 - I was interviewed on there a few months back, and I'm now a star in my local where some of the regulars heard it and recognised my voice*.

(* they didn't know what I did up till that point)

[llcoolphil]

If I was him, regardless of how much I earn't, I simply wouldn't be turning up for work if I wasn't being paid for it...

[Alcatraz]

I agree absolutely about the f*ckwit Campbell, I find him totally unlistenable. The thing for me about Radio 5 is that they seem to want to make everything controversial all of a sudden, even Victoria Derbyshire. If I have an early start, I'll listen to the financial news show at 5.30, but it's R4 all the way for me now. Peter Allen at teatime is still a 'kin legend mind!

[llcoolphil]

Victoria Derbyshire's show cracks me up. Every day, its another sob story, with her minute long pauses thrown in.

"So you sold this girl a goldfish?"

"Yes"

"....................................................Why did you do that?"

Brutal

[eFestivals]

it doesn't matter if you think he doesn't deserve as much money, he's a fat annoying bastard etc..

he's doing a job and he should be paid for it. if he's not been paid two months in a row, he is right to be pissed off!

i don't know the ins and outs of it, but if he's spoken to them about it and they still haven't paid him - what is he supposed to do?! i think he was quite right to have a rant about it to maybe shock them into actually sorting out his wages.

yes, there are skint people who can barely afford the licence fee (i'm one of them) but i think it's ridiculous to assume that just because he's a high earner means he can do without two months wages! he still has bills and a mortgage to pay. he's turned up for work. he should be paid for that work whether he's shite at it or not.

Sorry, but if someone on £10k a week (and who has been for many many years) but also on a contract that can be terminated at a moment's notice without him having any comeback can't do without that £10k a week for a few weeks, then he's a f**kwit.

One day the BBC will say "bye Chris". Will he then be sending us all begging letters, for us to help pay his mortgage?

As someone has already pointed out, he's not an employee of the BBC, but an employee of his own company. It's his company's responsibility to pay him, not the BBC's. If he's in the financial shit that is DIRECTLY his own fault via his company. It's only indirectly the BBC's fault.

It's not like the BBC is the only company with a contact with his company - meaning his pay cheque is not totally dependent on the BBC - and it's hugely unlikely that he's drawing anything like what his BBC contract pays from that company. He'll be taking a small wage, and the rest as a dividend because of the massive tax benefits of doing so (which will pan out as him paying a lower percentage of his wage in tax than you are, despite him earning around 25 times the average wage).

There's a very long and far more deserving queue before sympathies are given to c**ts like him.

[ampersand]

No they don't. There are plenty of programmes on R4 that I couldn't tell you the presenter's name - but I can tell you the content of the last programme.

[eFestivals]

WHo's show were you on then?

most of the shows that weekday morning from what people have told me, on the news.

The actual interview was recorded by phone at about 9:30 the previous evening.

[llcoolphil]

but similarly you have the jeremy vine show. it's the exact same show even when he is on holiday, discussing topical subjects, but i just find it rubbish. he is the star for me.

[fraser_k]

Why did they allow they rant to continue, I thought after the whole 'sachsgate' issue anything slightly controversial would be pulled? It's not as if it's a small unlistened to show so someone at the BBC must have heard it.

Plus don't expect anyone to care about your pay/job when you crossed a picket line when your colleagues were on stike?!

[llcoolphil]

hey, don't go slagging off Radio 5 - I was interviewed on there a few months back, and I'm now a star in my local where some of the regulars heard it and recognised my voice*.

(* they didn't know what I did up till that point)

[ampersand]

I dont listen to him on account of him being a pr*ck too. The point about Campbell is that there is always a phone in between 9 and 10 on Radio 5, but if Campbell is presenting it, you hear more about what he thinks (and he is arrogantly dismissive of callers with opinions different to his own) than what others do.

[eFestivals]

I dont listen to him on account of him being a pr*ck too. The point about Campbell is that there is always a phone in between 9 and 10 on Radio 5, but if Campbell is presenting it, you hear more about what he thinks (and he is arrogantly dismissive of callers with opinions different to his own) than what others do.

I reckon I could do a radio show like that.

[Alcatraz]

Is there audio evidence of Neil's flirtation with National Radio Broadcasting?

[eFestivals]

Is there audio evidence of Neil's flirtation with National Radio Broadcasting?

it was on the iPlayer at the time - which is the only place I heard what they broadcast - but I don't have a copy.

I've also done radio1, radio4, and bbc radio bristol (or something like that - a sw bbc local, i forget which).

I turned down being on the BBC Breakfast sofa, i reckon my face is only perfect for radio.

[llcoolphil]

so why do you hate vine then? can understand campbell based on that.

i dunno why i like him so much, cos he seems to never give any opinion. just something about him

Edited September 23, 2010 by llcoolphil