Re: [Swprograms] BBC Chairman Michael Grade to leave the BBC for ITV as of January '07

[Daniel Say <say@xxxxxx>]

> Quoting the BBC's business editor, Robert Peston, "The timing of
> Michael Grade's departure to ITV could hardly be worse for the BBC."
> 
> See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6189994.stm
> 
> The sorting out of the licence fee renewals hasn't yet happened; the
> BBC has advocated an increase beyond the nominal inflation rate;
> Chancellor Gordon Brown has strenuously resisted this high an
> increase, instead advocating a reduction in real terms.
> 
> Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA
> _______________________________________________
   Linkname: Grade shocks BBC with move to ITV | Media |
          MediaGuardian.co.uk
        URL: http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1958749,00.htm
...."The flamboyant broadcasting executive was credited with helping to
   rescue the BBC from the depths of its post-Hutton despair when he
   rejoined the corporation in 2004 after the resignation of director
   general Greg Dyke and chairman Gavyn Davies. But his departure, weeks
   before the government is due to decide on the level of the licence fee
   over the next five to seven years, could not have come at a worse time
   for the director general.

   Conversely, his decision will be celebrated by ITV, which had been
   under increasing pressure to find a replacement for Charles Allen, who
   was forced to stand down this year in the face of declining ratings
   and advertising revenues.

   ....He had been due to take over as chairman of the BBC Trust, the new
   body due to replace the board of governors next year as part of
   changes instituted by the government in the wake of the fallout from
   the Hutton report, which criticised the BBC following the death of the
   government weapons inspector David Kelly.

   ....ITV has been locked into a spiral of decline over the past three years
   and this month the cable group NTL, in which Sir Richard Branson is
   the largest shareholder, launched a takeover bid.

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also 
	  Linkname: Profile: Michael Grade | Media | MediaGuardian.co.uk
        URL: http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1958759,00.html

Obligatory radio reference: Television is radio with pictures.
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