Newly released government documents reveal Tory prime minister’s concerns over the ‘extravagance of some of the BBC’s spending’
Margaret Thatcher expressed concern about extravagant BBC spending and discussed introducing advertising to the corporation’s radio stations with a senior colleague shortly after becoming prime minister.
In September 1979, four months after she took charge of her first Conservative government, Thatcher suggested that advertising could be introduced to some of the BBC’s radio programmes to help raise revenue for the organisation, which was operating at a substantial deficit.
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from Advertising | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/dec/30/margaret-thatcher-considered-forcing-bbc-run-advertising
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