A little good news to cheer despondent Londoners today, as radio station Talk Sport has sacked presenter James Whale for breaching broadcasting rules on political impartiality.
Whale, who in recent photographs, has seemed to be modelling himself after Gary Glitter, is known for his outspoken views and had been at the station since its 1995 beginnings as Talk Radio.
Complaints were made to regulator Ofcom, after he urged his audience to vote for Boris, a spokesperson for Talk Sport said of the outburst on March 20th: “there was a clear breach of the rules and that we had no choice but to terminate his contract”.
The presenter’s agent Stuart Hobday said it’s come as a “huge shock” to Whale, though quite how he can be surprised after working for over 30 years in speech radio, an industry governed by political regulations which have barely changed in that time, is a mystery to most onlookers. In fact it is understood that the host not only told listeners to ‘vote Boris’ once, but repeated his views on a subsequent broadcast.
Ofcom has yet to complete it’s investigation, which follows a ruling it made last year that concluded the station was responsible for a serious breach of the same broadcasting code on impartiality in politics when another phone-in host and MP George Galloway criticised a rival for the constituency of Poplar and Limehouse, Jim Fitzpatrick.
Maybe, just maybe, there is justice after all.
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