Victoria Derbyshire Axed by 5Live
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Sad news that Radio 5 is axeing Victoria Derbyshire and Richard Bacon along with Sheila Fogarty, according to The Sun. Derbyshire says she has been offered ''a brilliant opportunity too good to turn down'' which is one way of describing it. Bacon will concentrate on TV work. Adrian Chiles is to host the morning show on Mondays and Tuesdays as his ITV contract is now non-exclusive. The shake-up takes effect in October. Tony Livesey joins Anna Foster on Drivetime.Derbyshire was renowned for finding reasons not to broadcast her show from Salford, 5Live's base, and remaining in London.
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Our household has opened the bubbly already. We can leave the radio tuned to Five as from October. We were getting to like Lbc . however a Derbyshire free Five is superior.
"It is thought 5 Live management have issued an edict that all new talent joining the station must live in the north-west of England."
If you turn up for work as and when required I'm not sure a management can insist
on you living in a particular place - the vast majority of people who worked at TV Centre did not live in the Borough of Hammersmith and many on shifts lived miles away from London.It was notable that when 5Live moved to Salford managers did not lead by example in moving to the area.
She hasn't been axed she is moving to a job with BBC News - just because people leave doesn't mean they have been axed.
I would agree, and surely such a requirement could be deemed to be discriminatory (and I am sure that the appropriate Union would have a view on that).
It matters little where you live, as long as it does not impair your ability to do the job that you are employed to do, and as long as you are able to turn up at your workplace at the appropriate times
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But its in The Sun so it must be true....and FTV started a thread about it so it has to be true. ;-)
Some people love gossip and hate the truth Steve.
Confirmed by the BBC.......
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Gossip: Casual conversation or unproven reports (Oxford English Dictionary 2008)
You said they had been axed it doesn't say they have been axed.
so NOT axed then ?
gossip : can be untrue
And it was yesterday's story.
So its none of the above?
Presenters change all the time. There is an active Radio 5 Live thread in the radio forum already discussing this. Thought you might like to know. Or maybe not
PS Can the OP share photos of the "axing" of said presenter. That MIGHT be worthy of a thread.
And i think that an allegation that a job in broadcasting is dependant upon the person living in a designated area IS a broadcasting issue.
But thanks for your obvious concern & interest in this matter.
The head of BBC North one Peter Salmon, who has recently been given the title of Director England as well, gives his permanent address in London.As London is about 200 miles from his office in Salford it can't be relevant that employees have to live within a designated area. Providing he turns up at work when required I can't see it being an issue.
We don't actually know that this is what transpired. It probably did, but unless there is certainty the word axed shouldn't really be used.
He is doing Monday & Tuesday, Peter Allen is doing Wednesday to Friday.
It's been suggested that Victoria Derbyshire has been offered the vacant Newsnight presenter's job (not yet confirmed). It's extremely unlikely that she has been axed against her wishes, she is a multi-Gold Academy award winning presenter.
It's more likely that she applied for a job in BBC News because of the Salford situation and was successful.
For future reference the best action in this scenario is to just hit Alert on the first post - advise that it's a duplicate thread of the one in the radio forum, and one of DS's beautiful little elves will sort that out straight away and merge it across. Sarky comments just give the thread a life of it's own and now we're stuck with it.
That's roughly what was said on the Media Show today, how many broadcasters working in London don't live there. I would not be surprised if there are a few who travel further than the ones who have not wanted to moved to Salford.