Going, going, gong

In the good old days, the BBC could expect four gongs in each honours list. It seems to have changed.

Stuart Hall is one clear BBC nominee - this writer rather hopes it signals a retirement from reporting on football, where his contribution is now almost devoid of information about the game he's watching, save the scoreline, which he "comically" mangles. Send him to a few London games and watch your postbag, Mr Van Klaveren.

Ronnie Corbett is also "mainly" BBC.

Beyond that, the connections are fairly distanced. It's a long time since Clive James was on the BBC. Reggae DJ David "Roots" Rodigan had a brief spell on Radio London, before moving to Capital and now Kiss FM.  Roger Gale, MP, was a producer on Radio London and Newsbeat, before embarking on a longer career in Tory politics.

Elsewhere, remembering Cameron's experience in commercial broadcasting, there are gongs for former Endemol supremo Peter Bazalgette, Paul Smith of Celador (Slumdog Millionaire and nine UK radio stations), Lorraine Kelly at ITV, Sky News correspondent Alex Crawford, and Surjit Singh Ghuman, founder of Panjab Radio.  Any I've missed ?

• 10.45 update: Durdana Ansari, gong for services to Muslim women, was a BBC World Service producer for 22 years (hat-tip to deep research by former Bush staff). And Jem Stone points out that David Rodigan has a series on Radio 2 this year - link in his comment, below.