Tony Hall, the Director General of the BBC, has just laid out his vision for the next 10 years of the BBC. He opened humbly, arguing that the culture of the BBC had to change in the wake of the Savile and pay-off scandals. The corporation had to serve the licence fee payer to justify the extraordinary privilege of public funding. The BBC must remember that it is publicly owned, he said.
Warming to his theme, Hall said that managers had to remember that theirs was a ‘creative job, an enabling job and an inspiring job’, and that the corporation must celebrate creativity. Hall says that the BBC will have to work with the private sector where it can to improve its output and to make itself more efficient because the licence fee will be frozen until 2017.
Comments
Join the debate for just $5 for 3 months
Be part of the conversation with other Spectator readers by getting your first three months for $5.
UNLOCK ACCESS Just $5 for 3 monthsAlready a subscriber? Log in