"The corporate dramas of the BBC should never eclipse its actual drama," Britain's culture secretary Maria Miller told TV executives in the United Kingdom attending the Royal Television Society Conference on Wednesday, Reuters reports.
Maria Miller's remarks on the BBC, made in light of massive payouts to departing executives at the British public broadcaster totaling millions of pounds, echoes the massive mismanagement and rampant financial, executive and fiscal destruction at the SABC in South Africa.
The latest shocker from the struggling SABC is that the beleaguered public broadcaster is unable to account for an unbelievable R1,5 billion spent in the latest reported financial year of 2012/2013.
Maria Miller called it a "grim day" for British households forced to pay a TV licence - just as is the case in South Africa - where ordinary citizens are required by law to pay and support these public broadcasters through an annual TV licence fee.
The British government believes bigger scrutiny is necessary of the BBC after massive payouts to executives who've bailed on the broadcaster. The BBC says it is going to review its internal governance systems.
"Ultimately, licence fee payers rely not only upon the right structures and governance being in place but also upon the BBC's executive management using their good judgment. Serious questions were raised about that judgment by the scale of the severance payments made," said Maria Miller.
