It?s Only Rock N Roll

It's Only Rock N Roll

Door Roosmarijn Reijmer, woensdag 23 juni om 23 05

De Engelse DJ Tony Blackburn is geschorst van het Classic Gold Digital Radio Station wegens het herhaalderlijk draaien van Cliff Richards platen. De voormalige BBC Radio 1 DJ is vanmorgen geschorst van zijn ochtenshow na het negeren van waarschuwingen van de stationsbazen over het niet passen van Cliff in de muzikale policy van het station. Maandag kreeg Blackburn al een laatste waarschuwing van het stationsmanagement, maar dat belette hem niet om dinsdag morgen vrolijk "Summer Holiday" te draaien en de Cliff-memo's van zijn bazen on air te verscheuren... (Guardian) FUCKING briljant! Wat een actie! Welke stationsbaas laat zich nou zo kennen? (het hele, hilarische, bericht staat in Lees Meer hieronder wegens abonnementen service toestand van Guardian)

Tony Blackburn has been suspended from the Classic Gold digital radio station for the heinous crime of repeatedly playing Cliff Richard records. The former Radio 1 DJ was suspended from his weekday breakfast show on Classic Gold Digital this morning after ignoring warnings from station bosses not to play so much of former Shadows front man. According to emails seen by MediaGuardian.co.uk, Blackburn was called into a meeting on Monday with the UBC head of programmes, Paul Baker, and warned not to play songs by Richard as it was against station policy. However, the next day he played another Cliff track, Summer Holiday, sparking a heated exchange of emails from Mr Baker and the managing director, John Baish. "We shouldn't be playing Cliff Richard," Mr Baker wrote in an email sent on Tuesday. "As I said on Monday, we might carry out research on him, but for now we have a policy decision that he doesn't match our brand values, he's not on the playlist, and you must stop playing him." "Requests is [sic] not an excuse," he added. An unrepentant Blackburn read out the email at around 8.20am this morning then tore it up live on air, threw it in the bin and played two Cliff Richard tracks back to back, thought to be We Don't Talk Any More and Living Doll. Mr Baish responded quickly, writing in an email: "Tony, Please call me straight after the show. This is really serious now." Minutes later a further email was sent out confirming that Blackburn had been suspended. "You're consistently breaking the station's music policy. We've made our position as clear as we could. I've got no option except to suspend you until the situation can be resolved," Mr Bates wrote. Blackburn was unavailable for comment but Mr Baish said the veteran DJ "would not be on air tomorrow". "We have had a difference of opinion over music policy which Tony has been trying to put to a listener vote," he said. "Classic Gold plays songs that people know and love from the last 40 years. The question is should we be playing one particular artist and how we go about our behind the scenes discussions." Blackburn was voted Oldie of the Year in 2003 and won the 2002 edition of TV reality show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here. (BBC)

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