BBC Director-General Mark Thompson today announced a package of tough measures to address the discovery of further serious breaches of editorial standards across some areas of BBC programmes and content.
The further emerging breaches, revealed following a BBC-wide search of around one million hours of output since January 2005, were reported today by Mr Thompson to the BBC Trust, and the Director-General announced the new measures in response to demands for action from the Trust.
The measures include a total suspension of all competitions. Phone-related competitions on BBC television and radio will …

Quality, range and talent dominate this autumn on BBC On

Behind closed doors with Her Majesty The Queen, an exclusive set of interviews with Tony Blair as he departs Number 10 and some of the best talent in the business, this is a stellar autumn season of programming on BBC One.
Peter Fincham, Controller, BBC One, says: “We’re keeping up the pace of change on BBC One. This autumn sees the introduction of a new nightly news summary at 8pm each weekday evening.
“Designed to bridge the gap between the Six and …

London 30th April: It was announced at the 25th Sony Radio Academy Awards, the UK’s most prestigious radio accolades, that the late great John Peel is The Broadcasters’ Broadcaster, a special one-off award to mark the anniversary year. The posthumous Award to John Peel, himself a multiple Sony Gold winner across three decades, was collected by his wife Sheila, and was voted for by UK broadcasters from a short-list of 25 radio icons drawn up by the Sony Radio Academy Awards Committee, chosen to reflect the names most quoted by …

The BBC today submitted its response to Ofcom’s public consultation on the Digital Dividend Review.
Ofcom has proposed a technology neutral auction of the radio spectrum released by the switch to all-digital television broadcasting between 2008 and 2012.
In its response, the BBC argues for the allocation of spectrum to Public Service Broadcasters to develop free-to-air, universally available high definition (HD) channels on the Digital Terrestrial Television platform (DTT).
The BBC also discloses findings of independent consultants that the loss to the UK in private and social value, if public service broadcasters …