There's clearly a change of the taste-making guard underway under BBC Chief Content Officer, Charlotte Moore. After yesterday's exit of funster-in-chief Shane Allen, we learn that Jan Younghusband, just turned 66, will be leaving her pivotal role in music on BBC tv at the end of the year.
Her departure was signalled at the end of March, when new posts were created around her. Maybe now the BBC can escape from its Glasonbury obsession, commission fewer David Bowie pieces, and release the warm grip of Jools Holland from the neck of younger music-makers. There's a generation of musicians unrecorded by BBC tv, which will mean the end of archive shows on BBC4 in less than five years.
(Anyone worried for the broadcast career of Alan Yentob ?)
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