Sir Howard Stringer

The last time I spoke to him, and I spoke to him quite recently, but no, I don't think he would want to become an anchor man in his 90s, and I don't want to become a director general in my 80s either.

But I think so much has changed in America.

It's been fractionalized, and the networks aren't as strong as they used to be.

When I was running the evening news, we had a 26-share network,

of the news compared to ABC 20 and NBC 20.

That combined audience was almost 70% of the national audience.

That isn't possible in the United States today because of the fractionalization and the growth of competitive social media.

So, you know, another Dan Rather is likely to be unlikely, but I am not watching from a distance all the current anchorman and I don't know

I don't know anyone will ever have the power of Walter and Dan again or Tom Brokaw and Roger Mudd and so forth.

It's just the nature of the world.

It's changing.

But I think retaining some of the values, and the values that are most important are trust and honesty.

And as long as we abide by those and the BBC values,

resurrects itself, its reputation, by concentrating on what it does best, we'll survive this, just as CBS did survive General Westmoreland.

That's a billion-dollar question.

Unfortunately, it is a billion-dollar question.

Money plays a much bigger role than it used to.

There were three networks, and then Rupert Murdoch built up Fox, so there were four networks.

And now it's scattered and so forth, and people get what they want, but I think

keeping solidarity and solidity at the center of the core institutions, you will find an audience, just as movies do.