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March 8, 2018
BBCPA AGM 2018 This years AGM has been set for Tuesday 17th April 2018 at 2 pm Friends Meeting House, […]
February 5, 2018
The size and structure of the Trustee Board changed on 1 January 2018.
January 23, 2018
UPDATE 23rd January 2018 The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) have provisionally found that the proposed takeover of Sky by […]
January 15, 2018
— BBC GENDER PAY GAP The BBC’s gender pay issue, highlighted in its recent Annual Report, became top of the […]
August 25, 2017
This post is by committee member Hugh Sheppard. It is about the current broadcast landscape and the non-regulation of internet […]
March 28, 2017
THE BBC ANNUAL REPORT …a gift for the media The annual report and the press reaction to it seems to have […]
March 10, 2017
UPDATE 17th July 2017 Photo BBC: Rupert Murdoch when famously summoned to by the Sergeant-at-Arms to appear in front of […]
February 26, 2017
Steve Hewlett, journalist and broadcaster, born 8 August 1958; died 20 February 2017 Like many, the BBC Pensioners’ […]
August 16, 2016
In the July re-shuffle, John Whittingdale MP was replaced by Karen Bradley MP as Secretary of State for Culture, Media […]
July 21, 2016
UPDATE OUTNUMBERED! ‘A personal view by BBCPA member Hugh Sheppard, who is also a member of the BBCPA committee’. […]
May 11, 2016
The BBCPA AGM was held on 21st April at Friends Meeting House, Euston London. A full house also heard BBC Trustee Richard Ayre speak on the BBC and Charter Review.
May 11, 2016
The government has set out major changes to the way the BBC is to be run. Here are some of […]
May 10, 2016
© BBC Broadcasting House. One MP suggested that the biggest attack on the corporation’s independence may be hidden in the […]
May 10, 2016
© EastEnders has been filmed on the same set since 1985. Photograph: Julian Makey/Rex Features Soap’s bigger set at Elstree costing […]
May 9, 2016
Pension scams are on the increase in the UK. ‘One-off pension investments’, ‘pension loans’ or up front cash are being […]
May 9, 2016
Ian McCaskill (John Robertson McCaskill), weather forecaster, born 28 July 1938; died 10 December 2016 Kirsty McCaskill said her […]
March 12, 2016
Helen Boaden, Director of Radio, announced that she is to retire from the BBC. Bob Shennan has been appointed Director of BBC […]
May 11, 2016
The BBCPA AGM was held on 21st April at Friends Meeting House, Euston London. A full house also heard BBC Trustee Richard Ayre speak on the BBC and Charter Review.
July 21, 2016
UPDATE OUTNUMBERED! ‘A personal view by BBCPA member Hugh Sheppard, who is also a member of the BBCPA committee’. […]
August 16, 2016
In the July re-shuffle, John Whittingdale MP was replaced by Karen Bradley MP as Secretary of State for Culture, Media […]