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Matt Brittin
Executive
Director-general of the BBC, previously a Google executive.
Notable Quotes
"The scale of savings requires tough choices, careful work and won't all be ready at once."View Story →
"We can and should be doing as much as possible on [enforcing] licence fee collection under the current model, but it's yesterday's model, it's a busted flush, it's no longer fit for purpose, and that's why we need to make the case for the BBC and a shift of the licence fee model."View Story →
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