Carl Wheatley
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A difficult read this morning for all BBC local radio staff who’ve been up all night broadcasting to storm hit areas with news, info & reassuring company.
Be careful of worshipping only the shiny and new.
#savethebbc
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I couldn't be more angry about what they're doing to my beloved
#bbclocalradio
.
Most staff facing redundancy/having to reapply for smaller number of jobs or just go. No local progs after 2pm. No local programmes all weekend. It's heart breaking & infuriating.
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How I hear questions on
#UniversityChallenge
:
Which fleegel-bugstrom has a rictus conflabulation equal only to the tryamitude of a passive dissolated hilbertum phrasing?
How they answer:
Oak
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Hope those overseeing the mass destruction of BBC Local Radio are soaking in the reaction across the UK today.
I’m not usually so vocal here but you are destroying something so vital, essential to millions. It honestly breaks my heart.
@JasonHorton_uk
#keepbbclocalradiolocal
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Shall we crowdfund a new radio station for Hull/E Yorks? I could easily staff it?
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I've got some exciting news!
I'm leaving the BBC for a new adventure.
To have one dream job in a lifetime is lucky – to go from one dream job to another is, frankly, incredible.
Read more:
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Please don’t let this drop. BBC local radio staff told today that this is “very much a consultation” and “we are listening to the audience”. Please tell the
@bbc
your views on cuts to
#bbclocalradio
See thread for how to complain… 👇
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When this is over & we’re laughing in bars, eating with friends & filling theatres, I hope that our outlook changes.
I hope we can realise that the only way forward is to forget our differences, look out for each other and celebrate the little things in life that make us happy.
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Staff at
@radiohumberside
& other regional stations have been told the new on-air schedules in a heated Zoom meeting just now.
I can't fit all of the local names into a tweet who will be taken off air.
Names you love and care for. Gone. Makes no sense.
#keepbbclocalradiolocal
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Another night going to bed hoping that I wake up to the news that Libby Squire has been found safe and well. 🙏
Can't even contemplate what her family are going through.
#HelpFindLibby
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Wow, 6 years since
#RikMayall
died.
The only celebrity autograph I ever wrote off for.
It took months, and came back scrawled with "Carl, sorry it's been a while but I'm a complete and utter bastard. Love Rik".
#RikMayallDay
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It’s
@bbcburnsy
’s last show.
Terrible decisions made by people without a clue.
Anyway - enjoy the warmth, wit, knowledge and companionship of your webpages everyone.
Gather round your laptop. It’s all you’ll have soon.
Digital first. Staff last.
#KeepBBCLocalRadioLocal
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On behalf of my former BBC colleagues who can’t comment publicly:
B I D E N W O N
Woohooooooo! Good riddance you racist, sexist, arrogant, egotistical, ignorant power crazed dictator.
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First
@bbcburnsy
now
@andycomfort
loses his daily programme.
Andy is the consummate professional - lives and breathes radio and passionate about the area. A very sad loss to broadcasting.
What IS the BBC doing?
#KeepBBCLocalRadioLocal
#hungergames
Following
@bbcburnsy
’s exit announcement earlier this week, I can confirm
@andycomfort
’s current daily show on Radio Humberside is to be axed.
#KeepBBCLocalRadioLocal
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Loving “When Ruby Wax met….” on BBC2. Love
@Rubywax
so much. Great to hear what she really thought of Trump, Carrie Fisher and Goldie Hawn. No one was doing anything like this on TV at the time
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First
@bbcburnsy
, then
@andycomfort
- now I’m very sad to hear that
@Fionamills1
will be replaced at weekends. Fiona’s a natural broadcaster. Warm, witty, engaging. Everything they’re desperate to get rid of.
And so it continues. What are they thinking?
#keepbbclocalradiolocal
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"I'm not sure you realise for how many people you're their only company. You're a lifeline. The people who value you most were never asked what they thought. You walk out of there a gentleman. Thank you for all you've done for us all."
Caller to
@joncowap
today on his last show.
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Powerful words from
@DianaJohnsonMP
on the savaging cuts to BBC Local Radio.
#keepbbclocalradiolocal
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I have now had 11 separate presenters, from across the UK, contact me to say they were threatened “Keep this confidential. Redundancy payments have been affected in the past when people went public.”
For the BBC to deny this is a blatant lie. Another kick in the teeth for staff.
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Thanks for kind words following my accident on Fri. Fainted, went headfirst down a flight of stairs, smashing teeth out, cutting face & bruising ribs. Could have been a lot worse. Still in pain but getting better. Tribute to wonderful staff in trauma unit at
@HullHospitals
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When Hull was top of the Covid-19 infection table = mostly a deafening silence from national media.
Now it's Kent = all over the news.
#northsouthdivide
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A natural broadcaster and huge supporter of new talent leaves the BBC today. Radio Humberside will be poorer without your dulcets
@PhilWhitevoice
- onwards and upwards. Thanks for everything.
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Despite a huge backlash, there's a deafening silence from BBC management.
The fight isn't over. Please make your views heard. This is too important to ignore.
Contact details in thread.
#KeepBBCLocalRadioLocal
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#HarryandMeghan
- if Piers Morgan & Sarah Vine aren't happy, then I’m absolutely sure they’ve made the right decision.
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New advice for presenters of shared programmes on
#BBCLocalRadio
It’s almost like management are ashamed of it not being local any more.
#keepbbclocalradiolocal
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All of this experience, all of this local knowledge, all of these friends thrown away by the BBC.
It’s unbearable to watch so many good people treat this way all over the country.
I’ll never forgive these people for dismantling such a wonderful resource. Shame on them.
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They won't be when they see how you've spelt commercial
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Absolutely disgusted by
@BorisJohnson
saying people should “avoid theatres” but not saying they should be shut. Where does that leave the industry? Presume if venues/companies cancel now then insurers won’t pay out. He’s hung us out to dry.
#covid
ー19uk
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Would it be fair to say that BBC Local senior management had underestimated the love and loyalty for BBC local radio? I think so. I really do.
#keepbbclocalradiolocal
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Want to have your say on the destruction of BBC local radio?
Go to the top!
It's your BBC.
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Sending love to
@andycomfort
on his final show today. It didn’t have to be this way but there is life after the mic mate. Enjoy your last one and choose that final track carefully. Radio Humberside is much poorer without you on air. One day the BBC will realise what they’ve done.
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Jesus. What are
@JasonHorton_uk
@rhodritd
and Chris Burns doing? How many people need to tell them that they’re making a huge mistake before they listen? It’s criminal. They should not be allowed to get away with this.
"It's been a pleasure"
Burnsy delivers an emotional farewell.
Listen to his last ever show 📻👇🏼
@bbcburnsy
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Can’t understand why the government keep putting Helen Whateley up for interview.
#r4today
- car crash.
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In the latest kick in the teeth for
#bbclocalradio
presenters having to apply for their own jobs - I’ve just found out that they have to submit a 15 min demo.
People with years of experience. Who are on air every day.
Demo tape. Wow.
#bbclocalradio
#keepbbclocalradiolocal
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With the hundreds of responses to my local radio tweets I’m surprised I’ve only had to block two idiots.
Don’t you get to the stage in life where you think life’s too short to waste time in the company of dickheads?
Other views welcome. Racism, hate speech, general idiocy - not
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The first time I can remember all 10 local MP’s signing a joint letter like this. Please share far and wide.
#KeepBBCLocalRadioLocal
All ten MPs representing Humber Estuary constituencies have today written on a cross-party basis to the BBC Director General expressing our opposition to plans to cut BBC local radio services.
#KeepRadioLocal
#BBC
@RadioHumberside
@NUJEastYorks
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A memory from ten years ago this evening. Most of these people are now being treated like crap and spat out by the BBC. Told they’re not good enough to be on air. What a difference a decade makes.
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Still
@bbcburnsy
's best line ever.
Remember when Radio H staff used to do "Stars in Our Eyes" for charity on stage?
One year I was Tina Turner. Burnsy was on the judging panel.
His comment was "Thanks for that Carl, I think I can see your Nutbush from here".
Outstanding.
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BBC local radio is a lifeline for millions of listeners – we can’t afford to cut it | Nick Coffer | The Guardian
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Turns out that all BBC management had to do was ask ChatGPT why local radio should be saved.
I did, and here was the response. Much more intelligent artificial intelligence than we're getting from BBC bosses.
#KeepBBCLocalRadioLocal
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(A senior BBC manager told staff yesterday that no one will complain - because they will welcome the changes. Prove her wrong please.)
You can call and record your complaint on: 03700 100 222
Or you can complain online here:
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🔈 Caller to
@bbcburnsy
today says how much his mum loved the programmes on Radio Humberside and he hates the thought of those making these cuts to local radio taking their salaries out of what his mum paid in licence fee for all of those years.
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Happy birthday to our lovely
#beelady
Jean Bishop. Always delightful to spend time with you. 💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤
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Anyone else feeling like loads more people they know have tested positive or are isolating right now?
Wow. Overwhelming. 18 hours before we unlock.
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And the
@bbc
local radio cuts continue. Unbelievable decisions. Happening right across the country and much more to come. BBC local radio will NOT be local soon. If you care please shout about it. When it’s gone it’s gone.
#keepbbclocalradiolocal
Best wishes to legend
@bbcburnsy
"And now the end is near..."
It's all gone a bit Francis Albert and the final curtain is going to close on my time on The Burnsy Show
@RadioHumberside
.
Lots of love to my producers and colleagues who face a very uncertain and unsettling time.
#savebbclocalradio
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I’m hearing that the number of people on the BBC staff survey who said they felt their job was valued in the Hull building was 14%. Shocked. Who are these 14%??
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What a beautifully poignant, honest and funny look at dementia in his family from
@Baddiel
on C4 tonight.
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This guy hasn't a clue. You are tearing BBC local radio apart
@JasonHorton_uk
- shame on you.
"We are the front door to the BBC for so many people."
Jason Horton, director of production for BBC Local, tells
@SeanFarrington
he doesn't think lower income households will be negatively impacted by changes to local radio services across England.
#R4Today
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"In Radio Lincolnshire the Breakfast presenter has been moved to the weekend, the morning presenter has moved to Hull and they've been replaced by somebody from Nottingham. The afternoon presenter then comes from Leeds."
@theJeremyVine
we don't get it either
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If you listen very carefully you can hear Hull buzzing. It feels alive & electric. Strangers chatting about the city and their lives in it.
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There’s a lot to be said for the shared experience of us all watching a big show together.
On-demand is great.
But waiting, and guessing and discussing and watching Happy Valley with friends and family has been a joy.
#happyvalley
@bbc_happyvalley
@BBCOne
@jnorton
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If you'd like to show support for the striking BBC staff from
@NUJofficial
they'll have a picket line outside of the BBC building in Hull between 9am and lunch tomorrow & Thurs.
Reminder: They're fighting to protect local services, it's not about pay.
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Have always adored Cannon and Ball since being little. Today would have been Bobby’s birthday. Rock on
@TheTommyCannon
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The
@theJeremyVine
@rhodritd
interview was absolute dynamite.
@rhodritd
@JasonHorton_uk
and Chris Burns MUST resign immediately and stop this utter farce.
They are destroying a national treasure and they can't see it.
Resign - and reverse this utter madness. It's a disaster.
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Who will champion the arts? Who will listen to the voices that would never make it onto a national programme? Where will the 18 year old budding presenter like I was go to make tea and learn the craft?
Big, big mistake, made by suits who just don't and never will, get it.
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Or you can write to:
BBC Complaints
PO Box 1922,
Darlington,
DL3 0UR.
Thank you! It means so much to the professional, hard working teams who go above and beyond to champion everything that's good about where we live.
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Pet hate number 38478: Emails that start with “Hey Carl I just thought I’d reach out…”
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BBC Radio Humberside cuts are heartbreaking, says presenter Carl Wheatley — The Hull Story
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All I want to do is sit in a pub until I pass out.
Is that too much to ask?
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Here's the car crash interview with
@rhodritd
on
@BBCRadio2
today - from 1:15:10. Utter disgrace.
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Congratulations to former colleagues at Radio Humberside - audience figures are UP for reach, share and hours listened. And 20 LR stations have seen reach increase, despite the odds, compared to last
#rajar
figs. How you've all managed to do this at the moment I've no idea.
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Having to make rules. No alcohol until 7pm. Otherwise I’ll be battered by lunchtime every day, hunched over my laptop, crying at the kindness of humanity while listening to Eric Clapton’s Tears in Heaven.
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We're on the radio with
@willyoung
&
@AlisonMoyet
on Sat eve at 6 - live from
@CityHallHull
for
#IFeelLove
the BBC's Pride concert in Hull 🌈
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I spent most of my life working for and being fiercely protective of the BBC but it seriously is in danger of disappearing up its own arsehole in the near future.
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Nice to see Tony Hart trending but it’s a shame he didn’t want my Humber Bridge made out of silver foil and cooked spaghetti. Not good enough for the gallery apparently.
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It's such a lifeline for so many.
The BBC says it is to make way for a bigger digital presence but I've yet to understand how a website/podcast can bring people together during, say, City of Culture celebrations or floods or just every day for companionship & entertainment.
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Another incredible talent cast aside as part of the huge cuts to BBC local radio.
#KeepBBCLocalRadioLocal
So begins my last week as a radio presenter. It all began in 1995 when I started standing in on some programmes and I’ve presented a daily radio show for over 25 years. This Friday is my last. Here’s a photo of how it began & I’ll try to dig out some more photos this week.
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The best BBC1 New Year programme ever with
@SamRyderMusic
- can we have this every year please. Utter joy. Fireworks were amazing too.
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Took the bins out. Felt like I’d escaped from Alcatraz.
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Quiz time: Anyone seen Chris Burns?
The "Head of Audio and Digital" or "Head of BBC Local Radio" (or whatever her title is this week) is missing.
At least, no BBC local radio staff have seen her for AGES.
Answers on a postcard.
#keepBBClocalradiolocal
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“This programme contains historical adult humour, sexual content including nudity, offensive and derogatory language that some viewers may find upsetting”.
It’s the bloody Dick Emery Show on Channel 5. Used to be on at teatime.
Welcome to Britain in 2020.
#DickEmery
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So the rules don't matter as long as you follow your instincts?
I've also acted "responsibly, legally and with integrity" but I did what the government told me.
As one of millions missing their family and friends I am seething tonight.
#DailyBriefings
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