One Direction ban on Capital Radio
When One Direction accidentally thanked Radio 1 for their Brit Award when it was sponsored by Capital Radio (ooooops!), Capital Radio (and Heart) responded by removing them from the playlists and forbidding presenters to even acknowledge their existence.
Talk about spitting your dummy out of your pram.
However, not even the slightest dent has been made into their sales and popularity.
It seems that nobody has even noticed the 'ban'. Is this not a wake-up call to Capital Radio that their output is largely irrelevant and unlistened to?
Since the one and only One direction hit , to date , will likely have already been taken off the Heart /Capital playlist by now , it's unlikely it will make any difference anyway. Also , the majority of Heart/Capital listeners have absolutely no idea what they are listening to anyway - why else would any sane person want to listen to the same 200 or so songs , so they will be blissfully unaware of the action. How childish of the management to object so much to just the mentioning of another station's name on air in that way - they are clearly complete control freaks. I have heard name drops for Capital radio and Smooth radio on radio 1 several times - even by the presenters , and i have not heard of anyone being disciplined, publically at least.
Since the one and only One direction hit , to date , will likely have
already been taken off the Heart /Capital playlist by now , it's
unlikely it will make any difference anyway.
Also , the majority of Heart/Capital listeners have absolutely no idea
what they are listening to anyway - why else would any sane person want
to listen to the same 200 or so songs , so they will be blissfully
unaware of the action.
How childish of the management to object so much to just the mentioning
of another station's name on air in that way - they are clearly complete
control freaks.
I have heard name drops for Capital radio and Smooth radio on radio 1
several times - even by the presenters , and i have not heard of anyone
being disciplined, publically at least.
Geoff Rogers <(Address removed)> said:
Now I'm not particularly a One Direction fan,
Surely there's a lack of proof to support this statement? A little bird tells me you have them on repeat play on your iPod. Little birds never lie. :)
