Transmission revamp
13 September 2012
It’s launched more services in the past few months than in its entire previous history but, as the BBC prepares for the digital revolution, is the finance department being left out in the cold? John Smith, the Beeb’s corporate finance director, talks abou
John Smith is very keen on balancing positives and negatives. No doubt a habit he picked up when faced with balancing budgets, he is prone to sentences that begin "the threats and opportunities of this are as follows…"
But then, as corporate finance director at the BBC, he knows that balancing is something the corporation has had to become very good at. It has...