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IS MICHAEL LYONS RIGHT FOR THE BBC?

Friday April 6,2007

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THE new head of the BBC began his reign yesterday by admitting that he seemed to lack one important qualification.

Sir Michael Lyons, £140,000-a-year BBC chairman, confessed he doesn’t watch much television. He then named some of the programmes he had seen recently - on rival channels.

The one-time Labour councillor and former local authority chief has little experience in broadcasting and has appointment after a secretive interviewing process has sparked charges of cronyism against the Government.

So do you think this is the right man for the job? Can somebody who doesn't watch much television be head of the BBC? Where do you see the channel's future?

SCRAP THE TV LICENCE

07.04.07, 10:51am

Scrap the TV Licence and give the public a choice so we can watch TV without being forced to pay the BBC subscription fee. Do this and I couldn't careless who they have running the BBC. www.tvlicenceresistance.info

• Posted by: Defiant • Report Comment

BBC

07.04.07, 10:27am

this beggers belief,if the average man goes for a job first question had any experience???? NO well come back when you have, or thats OK we will train you, but like the PM and the MPs come straight out of university know training or experience thinking they know all, and know nothing and attempt to run the country and look at the mess we are in, and here`s a guy who get`s a top job to make a bigger mess that the BBC is already in

• Posted by: ANNR • Report Comment

BBC BOSS?

06.04.07, 1:24pm

How can a man who has no experience of the broadcasting business run the BBC? and he admits he doesn't watch TV much. Sounds more like a "Job for the Boys" from Gordy. Now if say Alan Sugar was in the job, he now has broadcasting experience as well as a super business brain, things would turn better but because he would cut a swathe through the overpaid wassocks of lefties that run the Beeb he'll never be considered, more's the pity

• Posted by: Spike • Report Comment