A marketing consultant who challenged Stephen Nolan about the number of times Jim Allister has appeared on his show is to seek "legal opinion" after comments he made were branded "untrue" by the BBC.
Tim McKane highlighted the TUV leader’s regular appearances on BBC Radio Ulster’s The Nolan Show last week, claiming they were disproportionate to the number of assembly votes he received.
There was a short exchange between Nolan and Mr McKane on the issue, which was later shared widely on social media.
The segment was removed from the show when it later appeared on the BBC Sounds website.
Following the episode, Mr McKane, who runs Tim McKane Communications, met with communications regulator Ofcom.
Yesterday, Mr McKane said he is now also seeking "legal opinion" in relation to BBC comments.
It comes after a member of the public, who made a complaint to the BBC about the issue involving Nolan and Mr McKane, received a response from the broadcaster, which they then uploaded on to Twitter.
In the response, the BBC said comments made during the discussion involving Mr McKane were "personally-directed" at Stephen Nolan, including claims that he had been intentionally "provocative" and had "pushed a hard right agenda",
The BBC said: "Such claims are untrue and will be challenged accordingly".
Speaking to the Irish News, Mr McKane said: "The response from the BBC said that they shut it down because it was a personal attack on Stephen Nolan.
"The programme is around Stephen Nolan's personality and he will say `I will personally make sure this happens'. What I said to him was in the context of the show," he said.
"I have never said Stephen Nolan has said anything that is hard right but by facilitating Jim Allister so often on the programme, they are promoting a hard right agenda.
"Whenever you read the response, the bit that what I said was untrue, I am going to look at legal opinion."
When asked about the response, the BBC said it had no comment to make.
