The BBC Fails To Make The Grade

Michael Grade bid good-bye to the TV industry last night at a Royal Television Society gala dinner. The Guardian reports that Grade used his farewell speech to attack the management of the BBC and the industry’s regulators. “Sadly, I think things at the BBC are getting worse not better,” he said and he hoped that his successor, Michael Jackson, left the management ‘tosh’ he had picked-up at the Beeb behind him, when he took over his office at Channel 4.

He then turned to the regulators, the ITC’s annual performance reviews were termed ‘a pointless second-guessing exercise.’ He urged the government to reassess how regulators are selected and said that the present process was well passed its sell-by date and smelt of politicisation.