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Academy First Person
THEBIGGER PICTURE
AS BBC AND ITV COMPETE IN ‘DUMBING DOWN’, GERALD KAUFMAN MP, CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMONS SELECT COMMITTEE ON CULTURE, MEDIA & SPORT, REFLECTS ON THE REVOLUTION IN AUDIO-VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS
Should the main news bulletin be transmitted at 10pm or 11pm? That was the issue that led to the Independent Television Commission issuing an unprecedented legal direction to ITV and to ITV threatening to take the ITC to court. Should the main news bulletin be transmitted at 9pm or 10pm? That was the issue that generated massive headlines when Greg Dyke, the BBC’s director general, announced in a much-hyped lecture in Edinburgh that 10pm, rather than the traditional 9pm, was his chosen time-slot for BBC1.
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