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APA calls on Audit Office to investigate Red Bee Media.(National Audit Office )(Brief article)
London's production sector is putting renewed pressure on the BBC over the favoured status of Red Bee Media by calling on the National Audit Office to investigate whether the arrangement is a waste of licence-payers' money.
The moves, led by the Advertising Producers Association, are the latest in a protracted dispute involving Red Bee, previously the BBC's in-house production facility but now owned by the Australian bank Macquarie.
The APA says Red Bee's contract to produce BBC promotions is anti-competitive and its practice of 'borrowing' talent from production companies is no longer appropriate. It claims 90 per cent of its members are now unwilling to lend …
