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Philip Graf, Ofcom David Abraham, Chief Executive, Channel 4 Mark Thompson, Director General, BBC Adam Crozier, Chief Executive, ITV
Your Message We have included a sample letter in the text below. You may send it as written or amend it as you wish. Thank you for your support. Dear Sir,</p> <p>I am writing to you about the appalling way that credits are treated at the end of television programmes. Often the text is too small to be easily legible and speeds past at a rate that would be impossible to read anyway and they are constantly interrupted by continuity announcers badgering the viewer about some other program me on some other station or what’s coming next.</p> <p>Credits should not simply be treated as an optional extra at the end of a programme. </p> <p>For those who have made the programme - both performers and those who work behind-the-scenes - the credits are important in advertising their abilities and they recognise their part in the creation of the programme, recognition which they surely deserve by right. </p> <p>For the viewer, the credits represent an important chance to show their appreciation for a programme, to find out who was responsible for their entertainment and to recognise the hard work that has gone into the programme.</p> <p>I appreciate that some broadcasters believe that credits allow viewers to channel-surf away to their competition, but I fail to see why they believe that haranguing viewers about the next programme helps keep anyone in their place. Furthermore, well-designed credits with good music and created with a modicum of imagination could have far more effect in keeping viewers fixed to a single station than any amount of gaudy trailers or insistent announcers. </p> <p>I believe that credits are a public service and a necessary recognition of programme creators’ work and I demand that you take action to ensure that they are restored to their proper prominence at the end of programmes. </p> <p>Yours
