ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Broadcasting in the Seventies in detail - the BBC's document, its reception and Keller's 'rebellion' against it. As he himself pointed out to Aubrey Singer in 1979, Keller became a BBC dissenter only after the publication of Broadcasting in the Seventies. The famous letter to The Times, which he instigated and 134 producers signed, was the first time he had broken his BBC contract in publishing unauthorized views about broadcasting. It was also the first time that he had really turned his attention to some of the wider issues of broadcasting, and it sparked off his interest in that illusory and dangerous concept 'management'. Broadcasting in the Seventies was the product of research and debate even more extensive than that which had produced the Marriott Report 12 years earlier. For most of the dissenting producers, the fire of protest began to die down as they started work on the new schedules.
