The giant butterfly of broadcasting

Aaargh. John Plunkett's rumour in the Media Guardian, that Vanessa Feltz will get the early show on Radio 2, has a terrifying ring of credibility to it.

Vanessa's principal income is currently hosting Radio London's phone-in, 0900-1200 every weekday. At the end of October, she announced that "there has been a rather large Vanessa-shaped gap on the telly for far too long now although it is getting smaller... God, what a gastric band and a little life-threatening surgery can do.... The brand new Vanessa Show is starting on Channel 5 every weekday after Matthew's [Wright] show. It’s an unbeatable combination. There will be glamour, glitz, controversy, excitement.  Richard [Desmond] will take Channel 5 into the stratosphere.”

So Vanessa will biff Trisha Goddard from the 1045 slot on Channel 5 in the New Year; but why not make more money in a day ? The Radio 2 slot runs 0500-0630 - leaving plenty of time for V to get from Western House to Northern & Shell House, probably with a free set of newspapers in a BBC cab.  And Controller R2 Bob Shennan can keep his talk-for-oldies content up, as the BBC Trust demands, 'cos that's what, self-evidently, Vanessa's good at...   Isn't she ?