[Matt]

Welsh stations ban Leon's debut single

A group of Welsh radio stations have decided to boycot X Factor winner Leon Jackson's debut single.

Bridge FM, Swansea Bay Radio, Radio Carmarthenshire, Radio Pembrokeshire and Scarlet FM - all owned by Town and Country Broadcasting - have suggested that phone line issues resulted in Leon's rival Rhydian Roberts missing out on the grand prize.

"Our radio station presenters have been inundated with calls suggesting that during Saturday's X Factor their votes for Welsh favourite Rhydian, supported by local Neath diva Katherine Jenkins, were not able to be counted as lines were jammed," programme manager Gareth Davies told Radiotoday.co.uk.

"As a result until justice is done, we’ve decided not to play the winner's single on our group of stations."

Source:- Digital Spy

[Nicky.]

good 4 them =)
rhydian shudda won!!

[Loukas]

omg!!

thats REALLY NOT FAIR !

[Red Moon]

Sore losers...... Leon won and they should get over it.

[Tom4784]

Radio Guys....Leon won, no amount of boycotting is gonna change that. The boycotting campaign won't put a dent in the sales so really it's all for nothing really.

[Matt]

Angry Welsh radio stations ban Leon single

Not one, not two, but FIVE Welsh radio stations have decided to boycott X Factor winner Leon Jackson's single today. "Our radio station presenters have been inundated with calls suggesting that during Saturday's X Factor, their votes for Welsh favourite Rhydian, supported by local Neath diva Katherine Jenkins, were not able to be counted as lines were jammed," programme manager Gareth Davies said, adding, "As a result, until justice is done, we’ve decided not to play the winner's single on our group of stations."

Source:- Heatworld.com

[Bells]

That's really pathetic - would Rhydian want that? Even if he secretly does, I doubt it would help matters to publicise it or condone anything that goes against Leon - who did win very fairly: fair and square. If anything, it makes non-Welsh Rhydian fans a little bit disgusted (well that's the case for me, anyway). Having said that, I don't think it should affect sales too much, as many of Leon's fans probably weren't Welsh to begin with. It'd all be much simpler if political correctness wasn't involved - but then, I'm not too sure what I was expecting.

[XxShortyxX]

I read about that, how pathetic, really they are given Rydian a bad name here, do that not realise that, Num-nuts.

[natjake2504]

How sad

[supernoodles!]

well its up to them isnt it,but it is a bit pathetic but tbh if you 100% truly beleived that Leon only won because Rhydians line was blocked would you still want to play Leons song?This wont be helping Rhydian though which is a bad thing

[MarkWaldorf]

How pathetic and unprofessional.

[Wasted]

Pathetic sore losers.

And OT, but LMFAO at your banner Matt!

[Matt]

Originally posted by Wasted
Pathetic sore losers.

And OT, but LMFAO at your banner Matt!

*Adds Wasted to the list of Shivahz noticers*

You're number 3.

[Chri$]

as being Welsh myself I think its Descusting what they are doing

I Wanted Rhydian 2 Win !

I think he was Great !

but we should suport Leon as well as Rhydian !

My local Radio station is Bridge FM and I am fuming with them

[Jackie]

Bad losers How childish

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by jackie46
Bad losers How childish

Do what I did send them an e-mail:

I read you have banned Leon's single. Personally I think it a stupid thing to do. It makes the Welsh look like sore losers.

Here are the contact pages for the radio stations:

http://www.bridge.fm/contact.php

http://www.swanseabayradio.com/contact.php

http://www.radiocarmarthenshire.com/contact.php

http://www.radiopembrokeshire.com/contact.php

http://www.scarletfm.com/contact.php

[GiRTh]

How sad. I doubt this is going to stop the song from getting to number one though.

[Sophii3x]

That's just pathetic. And notice how it's only South Wales stations that's banned it? Swansea Bay Radio

[SairBabi92]

Well Rhydian should have won but this is a bit OTT! lol.

[Ruth*Star]

Originally posted by XxShortyxX
I read about that, how pathetic, really they are given Rydian a bad name here, do that not realise that, Num-nuts.

My Centiments Exactly, i'm upset Leon won but doing this won't help Rhydian will it..

[Red Moon]

Here is he reply from the Radio Station:

Hi and thanks for your email. We've been flooded with emails of support for the past 24 hours. All we're doing is reflecting what many of our listeners think. If the tide turns, then of course we'll play the single.

Kind regards,

Gareth Davies
Programme Manager
Town and Country Broadcasting

Looks like the people of Wales are sore losers after all.

[GiRTh]

Dont mess with the Welsh.

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by GiRTh
Dont mess with the Welsh.

Don't worry they are part of England really.

Wales became incorporated into England under the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284. That is why Wales it isn't represented on the Union Flag.

[GiRTh]

I wonder if the Welsh consider themselves a part of England?

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by GiRTh
I wonder if the Welsh consider themselves a part of England?

Would you if you were Welsh and had probably had to sign your country away at the end of a sword. We had to build a lot of very big castles to keep them under control before realised we weren't leaving.

However, back to the subject, I don't know what their problem is with the Scot's and not wanting to play a Scotsman's song on their radio stations. You would have thought they would be over joyed to see another Celtic country beat the English.