He followed Blackmore to Capital Radio, where he devised and produced programmes, including Jukebox Saturday Night, for the disc jockey Roger Scott.
He spent more than 30 years at Granada, during which it produced programmes including World In Action, Coronation Street, Brideshead Revisited and Jewel in the Crown.
Bedell started her career at the BBC as a trainee and produced programmes for BBC Radio 4, including Start The Week, Midweek and You And Yours.
They mean the One Network stations affected may have as little as 10 hours of locally produced programmes on weekdays, and four hours a day at weekends.
She said that in her country, Estonia, viewers are drawn in by populist, highly produced programmes in which Kremlin propaganda is part of the fare, alongside game shows and drama.
The firm also wants to exploit a shift in demand in international markets, where American programming is being edged out of prime-time slots in favour of locally produced programmes.
Content sales - operations related to the investment in a catalogue of both in-house and independently produced programmes and the exploitation of the distribution rights in these and other programmes across the world to broadcasters and platform owners.
BBC Cymru Wales has also produced programmes, such as Life on Mars, Doctor Who and Torchwood, shown worldwide.
He directed and produced programmes for Jonathan Ross's Channel X production company in the 1980s, before being appointed controller of the newly created comedy department at Granada in 1992.
It did not produce programmes just to meet it.
