Sharp elbows

There's an odd sense of jostling still going on amongst BBC Executives and their various tribes.

Last week Tim Davie, ambitious Director of Audio & Music appeared on a panel at the Promax Conference (usually seen as a tv event) with David Abraham, CEO of Channel 4, and Richard Halton of YouView. The session was called Building Brands in the On-Demand Age. One delegate tweeted "Tim Davie spoke a lot of sense about the future of tv viewing. Good stuff"

Meanwhile, the Telegraph's Neil Midgley has pointed to a potentially-Jana-Bennett-size hole in John Smith's management team at BBC Worldwide.  The move of Darren Childs has left John without a director of international channels. Jana managed TLC for Discovery for three years from 1999.

Others with an interest in a shake-up would be Peter Salmon (is the job done at BBC North ?) and Pat Younge, flexing his avoir-du-poids as "Chief Creative Officer, Vision", whatever that means.  Helen Boaden, who'll fly free of Mark Byford in the New Year, is also not beyond making the odd strategic acquisition for News in any fall-out of "simplification" of structures.

But will we see a genuine restructuring or just some trimming of existing divisional managements, as the Thom(p)son Twins contemplate the 16% cuts needed by the new licence fee deal ?