ABSTRACT
The B.B.C. Television Service comprises seven main program producing departments concerned with drama, music, light entertainment, talks, outside broadcasts and special program for women and children. Program ideas come from producers, Heads of departments and other officials, and often from viewers themselves—in fact, from anyone. Television anywhere in the world has to work with limited resources in terms of studios, equipment, preparatory effort and money. There are a myriad questions to be asked and answered, and widely varied points to be watched. Organizers are also concerned with the arrangements made with British Actors’ Equity, the Musicians’ Union, the Performing Rights Society and other bodies which watch the interests of performers and the many different people who contribute in various ways to the programs. The production of a television program requires great mastery of detail in its preparation, and much work that can properly be described as administrative.
