Among the journalists were high-profile broadcasters such as George Alagiah and Brian Hanrahan from the BBC and Lindsey Hilsum from Channel 4 News.
In an era when high-quality broadcasters are proliferating (every cultural organisation, every university, is now a broadcaster of public-service material), it may need to hone its arguments with more care: the institutional reputation of the BBC is not such, at the moment, to guarantee it the undimmed acceptance of its public.
The decision to strike a deal with UKTV, which is half owned by BBC Worldwide – the corporation's commercial arm – and half by Virgin Media Television, suggests that more high-profile broadcasters such as the BBC, ITV and Sky did not express sufficient interest in poaching them when their contract with Channel 4 comes to an end in September.
Now, you don't have to turn your radio dial all that far in Australia to find several high-profile broadcasters (looking at you Alan Jones et al) who will openly accuse climate scientists of fraud and claim the entire field of climate science is a hoax.
Gal Erlich Hagoel, Navigaya's CEO, explained to me that the launch of the platform brought inquiries from both high-end broadcasters that wanted an engaging web experience that accentuated their content, to smaller production houses and bands that wanted to 'wow' their audiences through a lighter version of the full-blown platform.
So goes life as a high school broadcaster.
The digital cable channel Investigation Discovery announced Monday that it is adding two high-profile broadcasters to its programming lineup: NBC News chief legal analyst and former MSNBC anchor/boss Dan Abrams and "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley.
The sacking of Lauer, one of America's most high-profile broadcasters, makes the married 59-year-old father of three the latest powerful man to fall amid a wave of sexual harassment allegations in the fallout of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
He calls him a "high-quality broadcaster".
Nowadays, such swearing is merely routine, which may explain why the expletive-spewing Jonathan Ross has become the BBC's highest paid broadcaster.
