MEDIA: BUSINESS TELEVISION - Major channels really mean business Not before time, the BBC has appointed its first business editor with a pledge to increase its coverage across the board.

Last week, Sunday Business editor Jeff Randall was appointed as the BBC's first business editor. Just six months earlier, he had written the following: 'Running through the (BBC), from top to bottom, like the word Blackpool through a stick of rock, is a liberal agenda, set by patronising, middle-class, guilt-ridden do-gooders who dominate its corridors.'