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ACTORS vowed yesterday to step up their fight against private broadcasters’ blatant attacks on the BBC.
Private television and radio company owners both in Britain and abroad are heavily lobbying the government to privatise the BBC’s publicly owned assets, Equity conference heard yesterday.
Delegates with the actors’ union warned that production standards would plummet if the BBC was not there to set such a high benchmark in quality.
Midlands area branch Tracey Briggs said: “I wonder whether we will still have a BBC in a few years’ time. It’s essential we protect the BBC to retain decent levels of pay and conditions.”
Equity vice-president Jean Rogers said it was the “one of the most important motions at conference.
“For too many years the jackals have been sniffing around.
“But the BBC acts as a buffer against commercial crap.”
A unanimous agreement was made to build on the Federation of Entertainment Unions “there is an alternative” campaign to retain the BBC in its current form, a national broadcasting institution based on a licence fee.
