The Anonymous Widower

Are The BBC’s Troubles Down To Manchester?

The BBC has now lost their Director General as reported here.

I do wonder how much the troubles at the BBC are down to the ill-thought-out move of much of the Corporation to Manchester. How many of their better managers and journalists have left, because they didn’t want or were unable to leave London?

I know that Newsnight is a London-based program, but even so just the threat of a possible move to the North was a reason to jump ship.  Especially as this year, London was the media centre of the world, with this years events in the capital, like the Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee.

It is one thing to decentralise drama and factual programming, but news and probably sport should be in the capital.

It was a daft decision to move so much to Manchester.

November 11, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | News | BBC, Manchester