The recent head of BBC Studios urges Channel 4 to relocate north and explains why he never moved to SalfordIt’s a degree of how quickly things are changing at the BBC that within a month of the Guardian being summoned to MediaCity to see Peter Salmon,the inaugural head of BBC North, for a typically glowing appraisal of the Salford trot four years on (“one of the most important things the BBC did in the last 20 years, or ” he burbles),Salmon himself has moved to pastures recent.
Last week it was announced he will leave Salford to head up BBC Studios, a recent division allowing the corporation’s production departments to make shows for other broadcasters, and in return for the BBC opening up more of its schedules to the independent sector.
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Source: theguardian.com