Off Pat

Pat Younge, Chief Creative Officer of BBC Vision Productions (and blog-subscriber), is moving on. He took up the job in January 2010 - at this stage, it's not clear if this is a redundancy.

Pat started out as a researcher on LWT's London Programme in 1991. At BBC current affairs, he created Black Britain, and produced Here and Now. He moved to multicultural commissioner at C4, then came back to Auntie to review in-house production. Then followed four years as Head of Programmes and Planning for BBC Sport. He travelled to the States in 2005, to become President and General Manager of The Travel Channel - and came back in 2009.

In 2008, he told the Edinburgh TV Festival "One of the things I've learned in America from running a business is accountability. If I don't hit my business plan I'll get fired. Why shouldn't the same apply for executives who fail to hit their ethnic minority targets?"  It's a problem he's just increased for Lord Hall and Danny Cohen....