Matt Brittin

"The scale of savings requires tough choices, careful work and won't all be ready at once."

"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."

"I think that's one of the great things about the 100-year history of the BBC, we can do that, and we can creatively renew content and shows that people love, and we'll be working hard on that right now."

"the licence fee system itself is a 'busted flush'"

"a moment of real jeopardy, not just for the BBC but for public service broadcasting and the UK as a whole"

"On the financial side, I knew that cuts had been announced and that savings had been announced, but I hadn't really understood the severity."

"You've got very loud critics, many of whom are the commercial rivals of the corporation and you've got political pressure on everything that you do journalistically."

"We moved to dismiss the case on the grounds of jurisdiction in that nobody in the US actually saw the show with the bad edits, and it was a bad edit, and he won the election, and he's got richer."