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All promised to stop "endless meetings" and take action to promote talent from ethnic minority backgrounds. The BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5 set specific targets for increasing staff diversity.
Sir Herman Ouseley, chairman of the equal opportunities commission, said he detected a change in mood. "I'm hopeful that today is a watershed because the high-level executives have come here and pledged themselves to commitments, along with the secretary of state."
@krishgm said "It is embarrassing - no, appalling - that there is nobody from an ethnic minority in top-level management at the BBC, ITV Network Centre, BSkyB or C5. Even at Channel 4 the two most senior black people are in charge of multicultural programmes.
And it is not because there are no suitably qualified people from ethnic minorities"
