Singing together

Some new minutes from the BBC Board - but they've skipped publication of those for the November meeting.

The Board went to Cardiff for their December meeting. It was fully attended, so we can assume all members were either silent on the cuts to local radio, or their thoughts were not recorded. 

"The Board noted an update on changes to local services. Greater investment in online news provision had resulted in higher quality, more frequently refreshed news pages with greater prominence. Network News was now running more local stories with national prominence."

[With reference to 'higher quality', I offer in evidence to the contrary a range of dashcam footage; see previous posts]

In January, the Board met with Elan Closs Stephens still in the chair, but with Samir Shah in attendance as an observer.  They had a poke at the Commercial Board, about how much it was planning to give back to the public service side....

"Directors requested that the Commercial Board explore additional options regarding the dividend paid to the public service"

Company secretary Phil Harrold is guardian of the minutes, so presumably he skipped this paragraph, as the Chief Financial Officer sang choruses of "We're in the money". 

The board approved an amendment to the BBC’s signing authority protocol which provided for the addition of the Chief Financial Officer to the list of individuals considered as an Officer of the Corporation for the purposes of singing [sic]authority.