Valley Bluenose
RTV? Completed it mate!
Probably down to the agreement Doncaster had with the BBC in exchange for the interview. It may not have been transmitted completely live. It may have been recorded 30 or 40 minutes before broadcast, transmitted as live and then opened up for discussion with the pundits. Alliteratively it may have been live but with the understanding that Doncaster would only talk to Richard Gordon and wouldn't take questions from the rest of the Sportsound pundits.
Pretty standard way of working tbh. Very few people are willing to discuss things on a completely open forum for fear of what they'll be asked. Most media content is managed and people are very rarely trusted to give full and frank interviews.
Doncaster insisted on only facing the soft option of being questioned by Gordon. No questions were permitted from anyone else. That was the deal in order to get him to appear. Gordon made that clear at the start of the show.
On the media contract question he pleaded ‘commercial sensitivity’ and dodged it.