Err - I'm staying out of this thread because I'm already trying to keep up with the other one and two on the BBC site, but just for the record, the problem is not money. It's access to that big tall tower with the aerial on top and the zigzags coming out. Putting Dick's programmes on air would mean bumping something the suits believe will get many more viewers/listeners (or advertising revenue). And they can't do that because of rules around the licence fee and market forces. They're wrong in the longer term, of course, but there's no way to bridge that gap now other than the one I've outlined, which is to attack from the bridgehead smoops has already won, not to retreat to the beach and start scaling some cliff somewhere else. Tom