Category: BBC
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Top-slicing
Charles Allen, Chairman of Granada, tells the Royal Television Society that the BBC should be required to hand over 10% of its licence fee revenue to fund public service output…
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BBC Charter big guns
The Guardian confirms that the BBC has responded quickly and seriously to Tessa Jowell’s announcement that Charter renewal won’t be a cake walk. They’ve rolled out two top executives to…
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The new Greg Dyke, more like…
Jana Bennet, the BBC’s new Director of Television, comes out fighting in Media Guardian.
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A self-perpetuating department of state
Barry Cox, commercial TV old-timer, says we should get started on the long slog to an open market for television now: “Does a mature liberal democracy such as the UK…
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Double clever?
Emily Bell in The Guardian greets Ofcom’s new boss and wonders if the BBC might have been excluded from Ofcom’s scope in order to provide a PR win for the…
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The management consultants, the toothpaste marketers and the other Carterets…
The Observer’s profile of Stephen Carter as he prepares to assume the role of Chief Executive of Ofcom. Most interesting is the ballooning payroll. The first estimate I can remember…
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The extreme case
Labour MP and DCMS Select Committee member Derek Wyatt has laid out the case for radical reform of the BBC – cutting it back to Radio 2, Radio 4 and…
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Quotas for BBCi
Owen Gibson in The Guardian wants the BBC to be compelled to apply the 25% independent production quota to the web.