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Duncan: BBC should have helped more

Source: The Guardian

Nov 04, 2009

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Andy Duncan criticises BBC for not doing more to help commercially funded public service broadcasters

Outgoing Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan criticised the BBC today for failing to deliver on its promises to strike deals to that would have helped struggling commercially-funded public service broadcasters.

Giving evidence to the House of Lords communications committee's inquiry into the British film and TV industries, Duncan pointed to the corporation's failure to achieve agreements on regional news, BBC Worldwide and Project Marquee.

"When you look at their income, which in absolute terms is very high and in relative terms is unbelievable now – the billion-pound gap between the licence fee and commercial revenues – I'm disappointed they have not managed to develop some of these partnerships more successfully as an organisation," he told peers.

Although he said he was a "massive fan" of the BBC, having worked there as director of marketing before he joined Channel 4 in 2004, he added that it tended to act in its own interests.

"It's a self-sufficient organi

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