After all, it's not every day that the UK's favourite TV show switches channels.
Programmers at FM stations have become more conservative about playing unfamiliar bands or new tunes over the last five years, as the tracking systems that determine ratings have become more sensitive, recording, for instance, when a listener switches channels midsong.
It begins: Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken In, sprinkled with ashes, Pop switches channels, takes another Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks, What to do with me, a green young man Who fails to consider the Flim and flam of the world, since Things have been easy for me.
Free in structure and with a bold use of enjambment, it begins, "Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken / In, sprinkled with ashes, / Pop switches channels, takes another / Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks / What to do with me, a green young man / Who fails to consider the / Flim and flam of the world, since / Things have been easy for me".
MediaFlo streams live TV shows from real channels, has better video quality than older services and switches channels quicker but it's still on a tiny screen.
But Balding, whose sister Clare presents BBC TV's final coverage of the Derby before it switches channels next year, sees little room for bromance.
