PSB debate: Mark Thompson, director general, BBC

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“The PSB debate needs to be more ambitious and less defeatist. The public doesn't want any of the commercial PSBs to be thrown out of the family, but it also doesn't want the stabilisation of ITV, C4 or Five at the price of weakening the BBC.

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