Revenues from making programmes for ITV remained almost flat at £261m.
He began his career as a broadcast journalist making programmes for BBC Radio 4.
"We love making programmes for BBC2, [controller] Janice Hadlow is absolutely brilliant," he says.
"There are 32 production companies making programmes for S4C," said the S4C interim chief executive, Arwel Ellis Owen, earlier this week.
In 2009, after making programmes for the BBC for 15 years, Mears did a series for ITV, and has since made two more.
Prior to his academic career, Trevor was a television cameraman, director, producer and executive producer making programmes for ITV, BBC and Channel Four.
Those making programmes for the broadcaster have also been asked to eliminate unpaid internships and offer paid training to people from a more diverse range of backgrounds.
The BBC may see its commitment to Wales as being more easily served by shipping in network productions than by making programmes for Wales.
As the BBC's production arm has designs on making programmes for other broadcasters, putting it in competition with ITN, Mr Hardie would like to see the amount of guaranteed, in-house work it gets reduced.
From my own experiences in the slum last year, making programmes for BBC Radio 4, I'd say many of the slum's residents would agree with him – but only up to a point.
But there are more than 16 million people in this country over the age of 55 and they are poorly represented, and I don't think the BBC is intent on making programmes for them.
