That led to Tuesday's TV proposal, in which he proclaimed, "I have made some bad decisions, but the best decision was running back to you".
Miliband gave the TV debates proposals the most positive reception among the party leaders, saying they were "a good basis for moving forward".
Like Channel 6, it depends on access to cheap broadcast spectrum and prominent placement on electronic TV guides.These proposals share a conviction that truly local television cannot be made profitable.
At today's staff meeting, which was broadcast on the BBC's internal TV service, proposals were put to Thompson, who is attempting to push through unpopular measures to plug a £2bn deficit in the corporation's final salary pension scheme.
In the end the government took the free over-75 TV licences proposal off the table, with the BBC instead agreeing to take on other funding commitments including the World Service and S4C.
In August an interactive TV standards proposal surfaced, kindling a controversy that pitted the ATSC's engineering wonks against an upstart alliance of network and cable broadcasters, and PC, consumer electronics and television transport companies.
Knobil says the site now has 18,000 members and past products that have failed to find a buyer include a 267-carat black diamond nail polish for £160,000 and the chance to star in your own marriage proposal TV commercial for £135,000.
He added that he wanted to get the scheme off the ground "as soon as possible" and would like to see government backing for Richards's local TV news consortia proposal when Lord Carter, the communications minister, publishes his final Digital Britain report in the summer.
Hamas official Mohamed Nazzal told al-Jazeera TV the ceasefire proposal was "not acceptable at all" in its current form.
"I love writing, but found my niche in writing proposals for TV programmes rather than screenwriting.
