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Congratulations, Government.  Your requirement of the BBC to distort a market has been thoroughly successful. Well done. It will cost you. The salary figures published today are greeted with the typically outraged response by people who, viewing and listening figures suggest, were largely very happ…

How annoying is it when someone pops up and asks a devastatingly brilliant simple question which cuts to the heart of the carefully-assembled presentation you've just delivered. Damn you. Last week, amidst some lively BBC coaching work, the suave Gareth Roberts picked up on something I'd mu…

Just about everyone knows the name of the first presenter on Radio 1 in 1967 - and the station's first song.  Fewer would know that 'The Sound of Music' was the glorious opening tune on Radio 2 - and its first presenter was Paul Hollingdale. Just shy of the station's 50th anniversar…

It surfaced a day later than Ofcom suggested it might, and Wales is still on tenterhooks, but the BBC annual plan, has arrived today.  Whilst it may not sound like great holiday reading, the missive emerges at a critical time. The BBC has a funky new Board that sets its strategy, runs its operation…