Government outlines future plans for the BBC

Government outlines future plans for the BBC; ENGLAND: London: GIR ex Westminster: INT Michael Grade (BBC Chairman) interviewed SOT - It's not for me to say what will go, what will change is an attitude of mind and an ambition - ambition of BBC has to be to use its privileged position, and its exclusive use of licence fee to deliver services which are very best of whatevers been achieved through creative endeavour in whatever genre - that means not chasing ratings, doesn't mean not getting ratings - Ground Force for example was ground breaking programme / You can't innovate every week in series running years - it's incumbent on BBC to cut things off before they reach saturation point, to make room for something new and fresh that will invigorate schedules / Refuses to name programmes which should be axed / My job will be to ensure Director General and his creative staff, to whom we delegate editorial decisions, are sufficiently innovative / We will issue service licenses that require them to be ambitious, innovative and new / Denies danger of BBC becoming boring - Discussions over licence fee have not begun yet Clean Feed Tape = D0599133 OR D0599134 00:05:49:19 - 00:08:42:06 FX/Mix Programme as Broadcast Tape = D0599132 Order Ref: T02030534
Government outlines future plans for the BBC; ENGLAND: London: GIR ex Westminster: INT Michael Grade (BBC Chairman) interviewed SOT - It's not for me to say what will go, what will change is an attitude of mind and an ambition - ambition of BBC has to be to use its privileged position, and its exclusive use of licence fee to deliver services which are very best of whatevers been achieved through creative endeavour in whatever genre - that means not chasing ratings, doesn't mean not getting ratings - Ground Force for example was ground breaking programme / You can't innovate every week in series running years - it's incumbent on BBC to cut things off before they reach saturation point, to make room for something new and fresh that will invigorate schedules / Refuses to name programmes which should be axed / My job will be to ensure Director General and his creative staff, to whom we delegate editorial decisions, are sufficiently innovative / We will issue service licenses that require them to be ambitious, innovative and new / Denies danger of BBC becoming boring - Discussions over licence fee have not begun yet Clean Feed Tape = D0599133 OR D0599134 00:05:49:19 - 00:08:42:06 FX/Mix Programme as Broadcast Tape = D0599132 Order Ref: T02030534
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