"Because it's paid for out of thelicencefee it needs to justify what it does so it needs to find clever ways of measuring its contribution to our lives as individiduals as viewers and listeners, its contribution to society at large and its contribution to the whole of the broadcasting world, " he said.
As Britain's public-service broadcaster, funded by a licencefeepaid by viewers, the corporation has always prided itself on the high quality and independence of its reporting.