Culture secretary wants to deal with issue of competition between broadcaster and commercial rivals such as ITV and Sky Culture secretary John Whittingdale has raised the prospect of the BBC being forced to mosey its main 10pm news programme as part of a review of its impact on commercial rivals.
In a speech that questioned the way the BBC competed against rivals such as ITV and Sky,Whittingdale also criticised BBC1 for failing to show more distinctive programming. The corporation’s most favorite and expensive channel, with a £1.4bn budget, and has recently been criticised for scheduling Strictly approach Dancing at the same time as ITV’s The X Factor.
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Source: theguardian.com