Ralph Lee, 53, (Whitgift School, Croydon, just behind Tim Davie, BA History, Manchester University) is leaving BBC Studios, apparently to “pursue a new challenge outside the organization.”
He's been CEO Productions for just over 2 years, and joined from C4 in 2018.
Is this a Klopp manoeuvre, or is he feeling crowded by Rebecca Glashow and the burgeoning New York team ? Was his Christmas message a calling card ?
Very annoying when executives from spun-off parts of the BBC blithely take all the credit for delivering content with no mention of their partnerships with outsourced companies – TV OB facilities providers in the case of the Coronation, the Coronation Concert and much of Glastonbury. Because, of course, the BBC no longer has its own TV OB dept (in contrast to Radio, where about 16 in-house staff still compete with external OB providers). It was sold off in 2008 (to SIS, who dumped it 6 years later, largely because the BBC decided to spread its Sport contracts so thinly, SIS couldn't secure enough of them - in fact, any of them - to keep the trucks viable). Those Royal shows were indeed very good, and credit is due to the Events production teams within BBC Studios. But also, massively, to Cloudbass, EMG, Timeline, Vivid... Don't forget the workers, Auntie.
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