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	Dyke's plight: Rising foes of BBC's £ ambitions
		Sir Michael Checkland, who was the director-general of the BBC between 1987 and 1992, is accusing the BBC of making what he calls an "imperial march" outside of its public service mandate.
		Checkland argues that the support the BBC has enjoyed from the public, politicians and the broadcasting industry is now under threat because of its diversification into more commercial areas.
		Sir Michael, in comments this week, said that the BBC's encroachment on the territories of its commercial rivals was destroying the consensus that was key to public service broadcasting.
	www.medialifemagazine.com /news2001/feb01/feb12/5_fri/news6friday.html (565 words)

	Members and Directors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Sir Michael Checkland was appointed to the ITC from 1 July 1997.
		Sir Michael is Chairman of Brighton University, which he rejoined as Governor in October 2001.
		Sir Michael has recently stepped down as Chairman of NCH Action for Children (August 2001), Chairman of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (July 2001), Chairman of the Brighton Festival (November 2001)and Director of National Youth Music Theatre (July 2002).
	www.ofcom.org.uk /static/archive/itc/about_the_itc/the_structure/members_directors/biographies/show_biog.asp-people_id=30.html (250 words)

	Guardian \| Duke Hussey, BBC's longest-serving chairman, dies at 83
		Michael Grade, then Channel 4 chief, accused the organisation of a "pseudo-Leninist" management style and political appeasement under his watch.
		Director general Mark Thompson said yesterday he would be remembered "for his great vision, his integrity and his forthrightness, but also for his great personal kindness".
		Within a year the director general, Alasdair Milne, had been forced to resign, and had been replaced by Michael Checkland.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329671653-103690,00.html (665 words)

	Books \| Duking it out
		By January 1987 Hussey had sacked Milne, and been forced to accept his deputy, Michael Checkland, but had also brought in John Birt to tame news and current affairs.
		In 1991, he decided that his second director-general, Checkland, would be replaced by Birt.
		Checkland was too slow in cutting staff numbers, created a furore over splitting Radio 4's FM and long-wave services, bounced through Eldorado - and - final insult - had the nerve to propose moving governors out of Broadcasting House (Hussey refused to budge).
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4329108-99942,00.html (627 words)

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		Michael Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
		Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man
		Michael William Coplestone Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/m/mi (42 words)

	Michael Grade \| TV Heroes
		Michael Grade is a member of the famous Grade dynasty, his uncle was the legendary Lew Grade of ATV fame and his father was a booking agent for some of the top names in showbusiness.
		The resignation of Milne, and his replacement by the more Thatcher friendly former corporation accountant Michael Checkland, with John Birt from LWT as his deputy, saw the Conservatives leave the BBC alone.
		Thatcher was said to regard the Checkland- Birt appointment as” an improvement in every respect” and, barring a police raid on BBC Glasgow to seize tapes of a controversial episode of Secret Society, the feud between Thatcher and the Corporation died down.
	www.transdiffusion.org /emc/tvheroes/michael_grade.php (3229 words)

	Change at the BBC
		Since it had to do this with a declining real income, and during what was to become the worst recession since the 1930's, the necessary decisions, the two most pertinent questioned later, were bound to be difficult.
		Michael Checkland, as Director General between and 1992, a man who was not taken seriously by the great majority of staff at the time.
		However, Checkland did set about devising a five year plan to cover the years 1988 to 1993, which would ultimately prepare the BBC for negotiations leading up to the Charter renewal in 1996.
	website.lineone.net /~tv-research/database/bbcchange.htm (1713 words)

	John Birt, Baron Birt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the mid-'seventies in a sabbatical away from LWT, he produced David Frost's interviews with Richard Nixon, returning to LWT as Director of Programmes from 1982; in particular during this period he was responsible for the revival in the career of Cilla Black, a life-long friend.
		More importantly, he argued that Channel Four should receive financial help, in order to preserve "public service broadcasting", which was taken as advocacy of the BBC sharing its licence fee with Channel Four.
		He also mentioned that his long standing feud with Michael Grade had been resolved, but the speech as a whole was not admired by many figures in the industry.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/John_Birt (1484 words)

	The Listener
		It was, however, Prime Minister Thatcher turning her hostile eye on the broadcasters in the mid-80s, via the Peacock Committee, that did for it.
		Michael Checkland, as BBC director general under the political cosh to cut costs, was poised with the axe as early as the summer of 1987.
		With Checkland unable to make a case for shouldering the whole cost again, I saw the writing on the wall.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/the_listener/story20.stm (883 words)

	Lord Hussey \| Obituaries \| News \| Telegraph
		But Hussey became increasingly frustrated at what he saw as Checkland's failure to wield the axe; by the 1990s the BBC was still overstaffed, yet Hussey knew it was under pressure to reform.
		In 1991 Hussey announced that Checkland would be replaced in 1993 by John Birt, then director of news and current affairs.
		In 1992 Michael Grade, chief executive of Channel 4 and a former director of programmes at the BBC, accused the governors of appeasement, "pseudo-Leninist management" and obsessive secrecy.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/28/db2802.xml (1270 words)

	Royal Television Society - A distorted picture
		In his McTaggert lecture of 1992 Michael Grade, the current BBC chairman, famously painted the BBC under director-general John Birt as “an airtight fortress from which no stray opinion is permitted to escape”.
		As someone who believes that John Birt did more good for the BBC than bad, perhaps the rationalisation of this outpouring of polemic is an indicator of failing to win hearts and minds in the Birt years, as opposed to a failure of policy and strategy.
		However, as Born highlights in the context of Margaret Thatcher’s attack on BBC journalism, the Peacock Report of 1986 “audaciously argued that the corporation’s news and current affairs output was the cornerstone of its public service offering and should be protected in the face of escalating competition”.
	www.rts.org.uk /magazine_det.asp?id=3826&sec_id=700 (1273 words)

	House of Commons - Culture, Media and Sport - Minutes of Evidence
		(Sir Michael Checkland) It may be that it needs to be not only technically driven but programme driven.
		I think it would be a mistake to actually throw the BBC service in too early, not well funded, and not able to commission powerful originated production, because what is lacking at the moment in all the new channels is originated production.
		(Sir Michael Checkland) It is use of archives; it is acquired material.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200001/cmselect/cmcumeds/161/1021304.htm (2533 words)

	THE MEDIA BUSINESS; U.S. Networks Talk With BBC - New York Times
		The British Broadcasting Corporation and the American television networks are talking about co-producing programs for their own and foreign markets, a top BBC official said.
		''Together we could sell to the expanding European market,'' the BBC's director general, Michael Checkland, said Tuesday.
		Checkland said in a luncheon speech here to the International Radio and Television Society.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEFDA1F39F930A15752C1A96F948260 (160 words)

	Political manipulation of the BBC - Alasdair Milne - Zircon - Dennis Potter - BBC Charter obligations
		Milne's replacement as D.G., Michael Checkland, was not a programme maker but, setting an ominous precedent, an accountant.
		Michael Grade - an unsuccessful candidate for director general two years ago - did not impress the independent panel that conducted interviews.
		Michael Grade is becoming, by default, the new Director General, and the ironies if not the comedy of such an unexpected grace remind me that it is time to wind down before I exhaust myself with my own restraint.
	members.tripod.com /copy_bilderberg/milne.htm (12066 words)

	screenonline: Grade, Michael (1943-) Biography
		Michael Grade is one of the few executives in television to be instantly recognisable outside the industry.
		His controversial and colourful celebrity profile has ensured maximum publicity for each of his dramatic television career moves.
		His own political acumen and experience in television will be his greatest assets.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /people/id/1057617/index.html (1728 words)

	BBC should 'stop its imperial march', says ex-boss - WebWatch - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
		Former BBC chief Sir Michael Checkland yesterday blasted the corporation for breaking the terms of its charter by making a push into the commercial arena.
		Sir Michael told the Commons select committee on culture, media and sport that he had tried to put a halt to the BBC's commercial march when he was director general from 1987 to 1992.
		Sir Michael said that by encroaching on the territories of its commercial rivals, the BBC was "destroying the consensus that has been very important to public service broadcasting".
	networks.silicon.com /webwatch/0,39024876,11022683,00.htm (249 words)

	Organization of News Ombudsmen
		I found this latter development particularly interesting because I had discussed the subject about three years ago with Michael Checkland, a long-time friend and colleague, when he was still director general of the BBC.
		At that time, Michael told me he would like to set up an ombudsmanÕs office, as CBC had done, but that BBC's journalism staff would never let him get away with it.
		And, of course, the reaction of an organization's staff to the findings and to the very existence of an independent office of the ombudsman is a serious matter.
	www.newsombudsmen.org /morgan.html (2867 words)

	Alasdair Milne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The opportunity to destroy Milne came in early 1987 after police had raided the headquarters of BBC Scotland in Glasgow, removing research material for a programme in the Secret Society series, presented by the Left-wing journalist Duncan Campbell, concerning the secret Zircon reconnaissance satellite.
		Most of the Secret Society series was eventually transmitted, although an episode concerning Cabinet secrecy in government was banned, and when Channel 4 wanted to show it in 1991 as part of their "Banned" season they were turned down, and had to reconstruct the programme themselves.
		Alasdair Milne was replaced as Director-General by Michael Checkland, who along with his deputy (and eventual successor) John Birt, set about making the BBC conspicuously less radical and more amenable to the Conservatives, not least in the form of Birt's market-driven reforms of the Corporation's internal structure during the 1990s.
	www.kiwipedia.com /alasdair-milne.html (704 words)

	Michael Checkland: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Sir Michael Checkland, President and Beverley Thompson BBC, vice president of SASBAH
		Arts Fanfare began in 1995 thanks to the enthusiasm of a small band of local people who have remained together and grown strong under the chairmanship of former BBC director general Sir Michael Checkland.
		Michael Checkland, Managing Director of the BBC, is to leave the organisation early after all.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Checkland_Michael_43682461.htm (141 words)

	House of Commons - Culture, Media and Sport - Minutes of Evidence
		(Sir Michael Checkland) I am not sure that is an ITC question.
		(Sir Michael Checkland) Not in aspic, I do not think; but certainly the time to review properly the role of the BBC will be more in the Charter rather than now, which means from 2004.
		The first tier of public service broadcasting does include the BBC for the first time—an overall code of community standards, or however you like to describe it—that will be new.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200001/cmselect/cmcumeds/161/1021303.htm (1253 words)

	The Methodist Church of Great Britain
		In yesterday’s Sandford St. Martin Trust TV Awards held at Lambeth Palace Michael Wakelin, a Methodist local preacher in the Macclesfield circuit, collected the first merit prize on behalf of ‘Songs of Praise’.
		There was more Methodist involvement at the awards as Sir Michael Checkland (below), Past Vice-President of Conference and former BBC Director-General, chaired the panel of judges.
		In his opening speech he drew attention to the recent Communications Act, which weakened the obligation on owners, commissioners and schedulers of the five main networks to provide religious programmes.
	www.methodist.org.uk /index.cfm?fuseaction=news.content&cmid=789 (387 words)

	British Journalism Review Vol. 13, No. 1, 2002 - Honest, brave and second-rate
		Michael Grade’s media career has spanned London Weekend Television, the BBC, where he was controller of BBC1, and Channel 4, where he was chief executive for 10 years, leaving in 1997 to become chairman of First Leisure Corporation.
		On leaving First Leisure in 2000, he was appointed chairman of Pinewood and Shepperton Studios and is the new chairman of Camelot, the operator of the national lottery.
		He was overruled by his board on the next appointment, Michael Checkland, whom he couldn’t wait not to renew.
	www.bjr.org.uk /data/2002/no1_grade.htm (1234 words)

	BIPA: British Internet Publishers Alliance
		Former Director-General of the BBC, Sir Michael Checkland, has criticised the corporation for making an "imperial march" outside of its public service remit.
		He warned that the consensus support the BBC has enjoyed from the public, politicians and the broadcasting industry was threatened by its diversification.
		This morning's Financial Times has reported that the BBC, train operating companies and private finance initiative contractors should all come under the remit of parliament's spending watchdog, according to an influential report.
	www.bipa.co.uk /getArticle.php?ID=142 (78 words)

	Horsham YMCA Football Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		After Sir Michael Checkland's opening of the facilities, Wednesday evening was the first Division 1 South game at Gorings Mead and it didn't disappoint in terms of entertainment.
		The home side led three times thanks to Matt Russell and a Pat Massaro brace -including a fantastic free-kick - but due to woeful play at the back they could not gain their first points of the season.
		They were caught on the break in the dying moments when Pudaloff spilled a header from Michael Smissen but the rebound went wide and YM were left pointless when, attacking wise, they had done enough to get something from the game.
	www.horshamymcafc.com /seniors/2006_07/reports/2006_08_23.html (764 words)

	BAFTA/LA - British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles
		Producer Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli was honored in 1989 at a tribute dinner attended by stars from all sixteen James Bond films for the Los Angeles premiere of "License to Kill".
		Sir Michael Caine was honored with the Britannia Award in 1990 at a Royal Gala tribute in the presence of Her Royal Highness, The Princess Alexandra.
		Such presentations have included: a hands-on demonstration of the Showscan 70mm projection technology; a discussion with Sir Michael Checkland, Director-General of the BBC, who outlined the five -year plan of the BBC; and a panel of four immigration and entertainment industry attorneys disussing immigration laws of the United States.
	www.baftala.org /about/membership (824 words)

	BBC - Press Office - Jenny Abramsky Oxford lecture two
		As our listeners woke up - or as was the case for many, swept up - the Today programme, working in candlelit offices, as the power to Broadcasting House had failed, from its start at 0630 devoted most of its two and a half hours to trying to convey the devastation and its impact.
		The Director-General, Sir Michael Checkland, went to the annual Radio Festival in Birmingham and, giving little warning to his Radio colleagues, announced that the BBC would launch a News Network on Radio 4's Long Wave frequency by April 1994.
		Sir Michael Checkland, in that unexpected Radio Festival Speech in July 1992, had committed the BBC to launching a 24-hour News service by April 1994.
	www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/speeches/stories/abramsky_oxford2.shtml (6210 words)

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