BBC1 AUDIENCE PLUMMETS... - Biased BBC

BBC1 AUDIENCE PLUMMETS...: "When I worked at the BBC, many moons ago admittedly, the main justification for the licence fee was that people actually watched BBC shows. Peak time audience share for BBC1 regularly nudged the 40% mark, and over a week, most people actually tuned in to the channel for a significant amount of time. Latest official figures, however, show that BBC1's overall audience share during December was down to 21.5%, and that the peak average (between 7pm and 10pm) during the month - even though BBC shows easily dominated Christmas Day - was only 23.4%, down a whopping 4.7%. So millions of viewers are deserting the BBC's flagship shows. In an internal BBC meeting yesterday, director general Mark Thompson reportedly vigorously defended his salary of £834,000 a year on the ground that he was worth it. On these latest viewing figures the case for his monstrous level of pay - and the BBC licence fee at all - is vanishing almost as fast as snow in summer. If ever there was one. Even his own staff think Thompson's salary is 'corrosive and wrong'.

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