Tag: BBC

  • Googlification vs picklification

    Before I get my teeth into the BBC Trust’s service review (I feel obliged to sooner or later) I enjoyed the collision of cultures (or contrast of cultures I guess)…

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  • Pilger vs. Lloyd in The New Statesman

    Absolutely compelling war writing in this week’s New Statesman. John Pilger’s article is bitter, Messianic, despairing stuff. For him, the actual conduct of the war confirms everything he said and…

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  • Beeb to Charter renewal opponents: ‘give up now’

    According to Dan Milmo and Maggie Brown in The Guardian: “The BBC has begun a three-year battle to secure its future and retain the ?2.5bn licence fee by appointing a…

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  • Tait on Puttnam’s rebellion

    Richard Tait in FT Creative Business on the likely parliamentary clash over media ownership rules and the so called ‘Murdoch Clause’. Written before Lord Puttnam announced his intention to oppose…

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  • BBCi cuts deep. Nobody notices

    Unlike the rest of the media, Owen Gibson in The Guardian has noticed that the BBC has trimmed the size of its interactive division (BBCi) by a third and frozen…

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  • Wonks on the BBC’s future

    Policy wonks (what is a wonk exactly?) Damian Tambini and Jamie Cowling survey the increasingly obstacle-strewn path to charter renewal for the BBC in FT Creative Business (you’ll need to…

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  • Quotas for BBCi

    Owen Gibson in The Guardian wants the BBC to be compelled to apply the 25% independent production quota to the web.

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  • BBC Online under the microscope

    A long overdue enquiry into the BBC’s investment online should be a good thing for all parties but it must strike a delicate balance. If it turns into a mugging…

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  • Problems with Azeem’s BPL idea

    Azeem’s BPL idea will encounter many obstacles on its way to the mainstream: 1. How far downstream does the BPL go? If you require content and app developers to embed…

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  • Redefining ‘Public Service’ at BBCi

    Azeem thinks we should try to apply open source thinking to the BBC. He thinks the Beeb’s online content and code should be freely published under the GPL – the…

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