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DJ Les off to BBC
Dec 11 2004
Controversial DJ Les Ross today promised to sign for BBC WM - two days after being sacked by commercial rivals SAGA FM.
Manager Keith Beech said: I am really pleased because Ive been keen to get him for years.
We shook hands on the deal after your story broke in the Evening Mail and we just need to sort out the paper work - Id like to think hell be with us for at least a couple of years.
Les will start work for us early in the New Year but Ive got to work out exactly what he is going to do.
He will begin on a weekly show, but will be doing a lot more speech than he has in the past. He has a great sense of humour and is passionate about current affairs.
I want him talking to callers and listeners, but there will be some music in his show.
Les, aged 55, initially worked for the old BBC Radio Birmingham at the start of his career, before later spending 26 years at BRMB.
After his two years at Saga were due to end on Christmas Eve, the triple Sony Gold Award winner decided not to accept the stations offer of a new one-year deal at less than half pay.
He was then sacked for opening his heart to the Evening Mail about how he had tired of Sagas management by email policy.
Les, who said he was stopped from taking coffee into his studio in case he spilt it, added: If you pay peanuts you get monkeys.
