Morsels

Odds and ends from the various bits of the BBC's Annual Reports. Zero points to the English Regions for proof-reading:

We note, on the gender balance front, that of ten Heads of Regional and Local Programmes, only one is a woman.

In Scotland, BBC Alba's mixture of live sport and country & western is growing the audience - but not amongst Gaelic speakers.....

Meanwhile, Radio nan Gaidheal's cost per listener hour has gone up from 18.6p to 19.6p. Another riser in cost per user hour - CBBC, up from 11.1p, to 15.4p.

BBC1 in Scotland is more popular, just, than BBC1 measured across the whole UK.

The BBC spent £2.6m more on Finance & Operations than in did in the previous financial year; and £3.2m more on Marketing, Audiences and Communication.

Spend on external programme facilities and resources has gone up by £15m, to £257m p.a. (The Television Centre to Elstree effect ?)

Tim Davie's pay package as Chief Executive of Worldwide is a healthy £670k, though not in the same league as the man he replaced, John Smith.