A-reader-who-should-know points out the broadcasting heritage of the new BBC Worldwide/Studios board. Anne Sarnoff, President, Americas (with Worldwide since 2010), is married to Richard (they met at Harvard Business School), whose great-uncle was David Sarnoff.
David wrote a letter in June 1922 proposing a new Public Service Broadcasting Company to General Electric: "Broadcasting represents a job of entertaining, informing, and educating the nation and should, therefore, be distinctly regarded as a public service." This pre-dates "inform, educate and entertain", as espoused by Lord Reith for the BBC, which appears in the first Royal Charter of 1926.
(None of this, however, explains why BBC America shows so much Star Trek...)
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