A Future For the BBC?
Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 19 July 2007
Dear Friends,
I am a tremendous supporter of the BBC, and like many no doubt, am saddened that the Corporation has apparently been shown as dishonest over game shows etc.
I have long held the view that with the freeing up of broadcasting in the UK the BBC's [former] role as the main entertainment broadcaster in the UK needs examination, with a view to significant reform of the organisation's remit. Why should license fee money be used to buy commercially made TV shows [or even make them in house], and broadcast them in competition to commercial broadcasting rivals who have to finance them without a captive "paying" audience? In other words, I would remove from the remit, the need to provide "entertainment" as such. It would be added to the remit that the BBC broadcast in the main and accessable means, such as DAB, DTTV, and satelite broadcasting, but, as I shall suggest, only on six main channels: Three televisual, and three radio. Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish versions of the Home channels would be essential I think.
The most important activity of the BBC is accurate and balanced [and well respected] news broadcasting, and in my view the organisation should withdraw entirely from all broadcasting that is not news or analysis of it, and reporting of Parliament [with Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish local, but generally available, services]. It should become something like the broadcast version of Reuters. There should be three TV channels. Two for Home consumption [Parliamnet and News, with regional variants] and one for World consumption [News], and likewise three radio services. I would scrap Radio Three, and all the pop and local channels, as these have more than adequate commercial counterparts now. There is absolutely no reason why the license fee should subvention orchestras nowadays, or even pay for more than the reporting of the main the main sporting results in the main news. These events and activities are essentially commercial operations, and are already moving away from the BBC without anyone seeming to worry very much.
I would strengthen the news gathering and journalism of the organisation, and base the whole operational headquaters in Broadcasting House for the Home Services, and Bush House for the World Services, with the centres in Wales, Northern Irelend, and in Scotland retained to maintain the regional news gathering [and Parliamnentary reporting] in UK. I would increase the number and quality of BBC journalists based as foreign correspondents. this would be the one area where no saving shoud be considered, financially.
I realise this is an austere view, but I would be grateful to read other's views, either slightly different, or completely opposed to this.
Kindest regards from Fredrik
I am a tremendous supporter of the BBC, and like many no doubt, am saddened that the Corporation has apparently been shown as dishonest over game shows etc.
I have long held the view that with the freeing up of broadcasting in the UK the BBC's [former] role as the main entertainment broadcaster in the UK needs examination, with a view to significant reform of the organisation's remit. Why should license fee money be used to buy commercially made TV shows [or even make them in house], and broadcast them in competition to commercial broadcasting rivals who have to finance them without a captive "paying" audience? In other words, I would remove from the remit, the need to provide "entertainment" as such. It would be added to the remit that the BBC broadcast in the main and accessable means, such as DAB, DTTV, and satelite broadcasting, but, as I shall suggest, only on six main channels: Three televisual, and three radio. Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish versions of the Home channels would be essential I think.
The most important activity of the BBC is accurate and balanced [and well respected] news broadcasting, and in my view the organisation should withdraw entirely from all broadcasting that is not news or analysis of it, and reporting of Parliament [with Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish local, but generally available, services]. It should become something like the broadcast version of Reuters. There should be three TV channels. Two for Home consumption [Parliamnet and News, with regional variants] and one for World consumption [News], and likewise three radio services. I would scrap Radio Three, and all the pop and local channels, as these have more than adequate commercial counterparts now. There is absolutely no reason why the license fee should subvention orchestras nowadays, or even pay for more than the reporting of the main the main sporting results in the main news. These events and activities are essentially commercial operations, and are already moving away from the BBC without anyone seeming to worry very much.
I would strengthen the news gathering and journalism of the organisation, and base the whole operational headquaters in Broadcasting House for the Home Services, and Bush House for the World Services, with the centres in Wales, Northern Irelend, and in Scotland retained to maintain the regional news gathering [and Parliamnentary reporting] in UK. I would increase the number and quality of BBC journalists based as foreign correspondents. this would be the one area where no saving shoud be considered, financially.
I realise this is an austere view, but I would be grateful to read other's views, either slightly different, or completely opposed to this.
Kindest regards from Fredrik
quote:Originally posted by Steve S1:
One swallow my arse.
There's a thought...!
