[The Deadly]

In other news, Dom and Dave are in a band called FolkFace!

Are you sure?

[neilt0]

In other news, Dom sang a song called José!

[The Deadly]

I hope Mr Wurzel isn't taking this personally. He is a pretty radical dude deep down.

[Nicola_Red]

It's merge o'clock again.

[The Deadly]

It's merge o'clock again.

It was a real eMERGEncy situation.

[What]

He's been doing it for years. Do your research.

I am very sorry but I am not researching every aspect of the teams lives just in case something that is posted that is already common knowledge gets repeated. If you already knew this then why even bother commenting?

My god...

It's basic Chris Moyles show knowledge.

Nah.

[dimtimjim]

He's been doing it for years. Do your research.

He's been doing it for years. Do your research.

[chrysostom]

Nah.

This.

[Boboff]

Wow I had forgoten how harsh you lot are to newbies.

[dimtimjim]

Wow I had forgoten how harsh you lot are to newbies.

He's been a menber since '06 Bob...

[chrysostom]

Still, this is probably why they stopped posting 8 years ago.

It's not common knowledge to someone who didn't listen to the show on a daily basis.

Remember, we're a mixed ability group

[dimtimjim]

Remember, we're a mixed ability group

Still, this is probably why they stopped posting 8 years ago.

We certainly are, Maths being Andy's failing...

[chrysostom]

Hah!

Word can't express how irritated I am at myself for that mistake.

[dimtimjim]

[R94N]

I made the same mistake RE voice training. People weren't as harsh to me then though.

[chrysostom]

Well, you're just a child

[BBQ]

If someone tells me I'm a child I correct them and tell them I'm a rejuvenile

[neilt0]

[BBQ]

Like many, I'd like to think this means the return of Chris. Chris and Dom together would be great. Right now though it seems unlikely that Chris will be on the radio anytime soon, making 2013 the foul year of our lord -in the words of Hunter S. Thompson. I hope Chris does return to the air and soon.

[Emmy]

Going by this tweet it looks like Dave will be working for BBC Three Counties on Saturday.

Brendan Murphy ‏@broadcastingb
I'm looking for anyone who's been adversely affected by drinking "counterfeit alcohol", to speak to @davidvitty on @bbc3cr on Saturday...
Retweeted by Dave Vitty

And whilst I was watching This Morning earlier they plugged an appearance by Chris and Stacey Solomon tomorrow, didn't say exactly what time they'd be on.

[officialthomasw]

Dave is indeed presenting Saturday Breakfast on BBC 3cr 6:00-10:00am

[Badger Mark]

Something I've wondered about every now and then - how interconnected is BBC national radio with the local radio stations? Does the national license fee cover everybody or do the locals get their money from local funding sources? If the latter I'd imagine then that there's a fair amount of inequity between the various local stations given the differences in amount of money available from region to region.

Just curious.

[the sniper]

They're all just funded from the license fee, I believe.The main BBC Radio exception is the 'BBC World Service', which is currently funded by the Government's Foreign and Commonwealth Office, though even that'll be funded by the licence fee from 2014.

[Badger Mark]

They're all just funded from the license fee, I believe.The main BBC Radio exception is the 'BBC World Service', which is currently funded by the Government's Foreign and Commonwealth Office, though even that'll be funded by the licence fee from 2014.

Thanks for the info. The bit about Dave's new gig reminded me about asking that question.

[chrysostom]

According to the BBC's 2011/12 Annual Report its income can be broken down, as follows:

£3,606.3 million in licence fees collected from householders;
£222 million from BBC Commercial Businesses;
£279.4 million from government grants;
£271.9 million from other income, such as providing content to overseas broadcasters and concert ticket sales