Ch5 Ben Frow talks on the BBC Media Show
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000h7y0


41mins
15 Apr 2020


His Family were /are in Show Business.


19:50mins
He got bored with Big Brother
Too Expensive.
And the Big Boss King Richard picking on him.


He can be a Nasty Bitch



[When Channel 5 launched in 1997,
it promised to be "modern and mainstream".
But it wasn't long before the schedule
was filled with tacky game shows and even
soft porn movies.
The bad reputation stuck for years.
Under the leadership of Ben Frow,
Channel 5 has been transformed into
RTS Channel of the Year,
attracting upmarket viewers with documentaries
about the National Trust and
a Michael Palin travelogue.
In this extended edition of The Media Show,
Ben Frow tells Amol Rajan more about
his strategy, and discusses his own career
journey which began as a costume maker.]