Ideas not acceptable
A viewer wrote the Director General of the BBC with a request for him to pass on his letter to someone who could deal with his idea about something new for broadcasting. Here is the reply he received:-
"I'd like to clarify the BBC is more than happy to receive feedback on its output where the public feel we could do better but we aren't in a position to entertain programme ideas from the public as we do not have the resources to review ideas and enter discussion about them.
If you're offering feedback then by all means you can write to us at our postal address or use our complaints or comment webform to submit your feedback and it will be included on our overnight report for the relevant personnel. We do not use email addresses, this is to ensure all contacts from our audience are logged and tracked centrally, this has helped us to reduce the amount of spam we receive and improved our reporting of audience reaction to BBC personnel, including programme makers and senior staff."
Please use our postal Address:
BBC Audience Services
PO Box 1922
Darlington
DL3 0UR
..............Caoimhe Grey"
It would therefore appear that the BBC will NOT consider ideas submitted by viewers or listeners. Many will consider this as a form of closed shop, which, to say the least, is totally unacceptable.
Viewers Forum
It must be said that a programme called "Points of View" is broadcast, but here again, it deals with feedback on existing programmes.
It would seem there is a gap in the BBC structure that limits the expression of ideas for new programmes.