Three items this week, in descending order of importance, increasing order of triviality:
The cost of a BBC licence fee was set for the next six years. The fee will increase 3% for the next two years, and 2% for the four following years. The figures roughly follow projections for CPI, but there is no inflation […]
One departure, one arrival, and one return from the brink:
Michael Grade left the BBC. The decision was broken, as I understand it, in the Telegraph, and confirmed this morning. No news yet on salary, but it may top £2m. No news yet on how how he will be replaced. A former surgeon, acting Chair Chitra […]
Now that RTVE Director-General Carmen Caffarel is calling on politicians to name high-quality independent members of RTVE’s future Board, I thought it might be useful to see whether, in the past, Directors-General have frequently been tossed out by over-mighty boards. I finally found this list of previous Directors-General. Let’s have a look:
Fernando Castedo (Jan ‘81 […]
This article detailing election coverage in the Catalonian elections is interesting for two reasons. First, it’s another reminder to Britons that the debates about the distribution of party political broadcasts is astonishingly conflict-free - or at least appears that way. Second, it’s the first time I’ve seen reference to the (national) RTVE board of administration, […]
Alicia G. Montano today publishes La manipulación en Televisión, a book on the “weakness of pluralism and independence” suffered by RTVE over the past thirty years.
