For a start, I'd replace its missing backbone. I'm in rather a strong position - I've had so much shit thrown at me that there's not a lot left. I'd firstly attack the BBC enemies - those commercial rivals with the morals of sewer rats. I'd rip them apart by revealing their secrets and my God there are a lot of those.
Then I'd stand up for those who work for the corporation. Staff, on and off air - people like the brave if foolish man who decided that the allegations against Jimmy Savile were crap by greedy fantasists and the show should not be aired. Promote that man. Someone honourable and competent.
I'd go for an increase in the licence fee. Worth every fucking penny, if you ask me.
I'd start blasting wanky and useless politicians starting with spoon face and exposing how useless they are. I'd campaign for a major restructure of society. Starting with the law courts and lazy, incompetent and useless police officers and CPS.
Wasting our tax monies on tabloid hysteria.
I'd dump all those shit programmes and boost budgets for the great ones.
I'd get the Pope to canonise David Attenborough.
Oh, I'd do a grand job. Unlikely I'd get the gig though. Don't think I'll bother applying.

Whomever wrote this obviously does not know JK.

I think JK would be excellent and those moaning minnies re: license fee don't seem to realise how expensive the crap they get from Murdoch's piss weak networks, would become.

Do they really think Richard Desmond would finance quality TV when Bouncy Boobs R US sells like hotcakes?

also a sign of the times:

the ABC in Oz, modeled on the BBC and a superb entity, always had the rights to broadcast BBC programs which they did.

Now that Rupert Murdoch has failed in the UK to destroy the BBC he has turned his sights on the ABC and uses his dominant publishing empire to bash the ABC at every opportunity claiming "left wing bias" daily (usually meaning an Opposition labor MP appeared on a program).

Now he has secured the rights to BBC programs for his piss weak, hugely over-priced Foxtel cable network so not only do you have to subscribe, you have to pay extra for a "UK TV" channel.

The other great government network SBS, for years broadcast superb films nightly from every foreign country. Murdoch started an overpriced "World Movies" channel and has monoplised these once free-to-air films.

and that is why Oz is the biggest downloader on the planet of pirated films.

The media dominates as usual; why didn't Leveson examine the true media domination instead of his narrow agenda?

The prospective new chairman should be made to demonstrate that he or she actually knows what the concept of public service broadcasting really is. The sad fact is that most politicians have no idea what it is supposed to mean, and even most BBC executives don't have a clue, either.

Sounds like the 1970's situation of Clough not getting the England job ? Best manager they never had

Go on, send them a letter, dare you.........

*maybe you could make life harder for Victoria Derbyshire?

Isn't the father of her child in some spot of bother at the moment?

I confess, had to google that....but what a tangled web.....so next time she interviews 'a Jeremy Kyle' style phone caller about their living arrangement, benefits and low life surroundings, she's possibly asking for advice about her next move in life?

....I had to chuckle, but I believe in Karma, so i have stopped chuckling and will now offer empathy.....cough cough

Interesting to see Michael Grade tipped as a potential contender.

The problem with the Government's approach is that their sole focus is on making the BBC more commercially effective, when what they should be focussing on is making it culturally more impressive. But as I say, they don't think in terms of public service broadcasting, they think in terms of an ordinary broadcaster that just happens to be publicly funded. Sadly, the same goes for many inside the BBC - that's why, for example, BBC Three was created (a niche channel for a broadcaster that was set up to combat the very idea of a niche). They all require a crash course in the history of the Beeb.

JK2006 wrote:
Interesting to see Michael Grade tipped as a potential contender.
I read somewhere that Sir Howard Stringer's name is in the frame. If he's half as good as his little brother is running Columbia Records in the USA, he would be a great choice.

I believe Howard has ruled himself out; yes, I think he'd be good (he has a backbone) - I met him once and liked him a lot.

So....is your application in the post ?

Pru wrote:
The problem with the Government's approach is that their sole focus is on making the BBC more commercially effective, when what they should be focussing on is making it culturally more impressive. But as I say, they don't think in terms of public service broadcasting, they think in terms of an ordinary broadcaster that just happens to be publicly funded. Sadly, the same goes for many inside the BBC - that's why, for example, BBC Three was created (a niche channel for a broadcaster that was set up to combat the very idea of a niche). They all require a crash course in the history of the Beeb.

Spot on, Pru

No application Mr Reason - why bother?

There needs to be someone who hate the PC and is willing to show some jolly Black and White Minstrels.

Why bother? OK, so i guess it wouldn't go anywhere....but in the form of an application as an open letter? Get the points across?..............maybe not, then