- Fri Apr 12, 2002 6:54 pm
#8291
Many Human Zoo fans on here I know.Personally I think TalkSport lets enough losers on the air when they ARE screening the calls,let alone that Sunday night show which is like earwigging on the biggest meeting of 'Billy no mates' ,no hopers,and virgins,the world over.Thank God then for this...
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TalkSport DJ Tommy Boyd has been fired after failing to block on-air remarks from a caller who said he would like to shoot the royal family, just hours after the death of the Queen Mother.
The former children's TV presenter and his production team were this week informed they had lost their jobs at the station, which is owned by Kelvin MacKenzie, the former Sun editor.
A spokesman for the radio station confirmed the decision, adding: "It's very unfortunate, but we had no choice."
The Radio Authority received a complaint from a listener to the live broadcast who heard a man call for the royal family to be shot.
Boyd, his producer and technical operative sat speechless after the caller - who claimed to be a republican - said he would like to "shoot the * lot of them", on the Sunday night following the announcement of the death of the Queen Mother.
The presenter and his team failed to activate a "dumper" button - an emergency button that allows radio stations to cut offensive broadcasts from air within a seconds-long delay - in time to stop the broadcast.
"It was either a gross error of judgement, or one of the three people in the studio failed properly to monitor the output," said the spokesman.
Boyd distanced himself from the broadcast, making clear that he and the station did not share the caller's views.
Boyd, a former Magpie presenter and head of ITV children's entertainment, worked at what was then called Talk Radio in the late 1990s before losing his job in a reshuffle.
He was hired again when Mr MacKenzie rebranded the station TalkSport two years ago
chrismoyles.net
