BBC to poll public on what they want from broadcaster
The BBC is running its “biggest ever public engagement exercise” as the corporation polls audiences to ask what they want from their public broadcaster at the moment and in the future.
From Thursday, the corporation will send out the Our BBC, Our future questionnaire ahead of the forthcoming review of the corporation’s royal charter which sets the BBC’s mission, public purposes and funding.
Fund it by voluntary subscription. Easy, no need for a poll, but...
Tim Davie, BBC director-general, said: “The BBC belongs to all of us and we all have a say in its future.
Which means there will be no future where the BBC hand has been removed from the public pocket. Voluntary subscription is not even on the table, not the real table where deals are done.
Poll away, it won't make any difference, the core decision has almost certainly been made already.
6 comments:
Easy-peasy: send every licence-holder a share certificate. Sell off more shares to any bidders. Let the shares trade on the exchanges. Then a properly appointed Board of Directors can try to work out what to do.
Get rid of the licence fee. Make them survive selling ads like every other broadcaster. Dump the world service and local radio. Like most of the public sector it is vastly over-staffed and bloated. They still send three different crews working for different strands to every news conference when a single camera would be quite sufficient.The idea that we should fund an organisation whose news and current affairs division is so obviously biased and dishonest is ludicrous.
The idea that the BBC is some sort of jewel in the crown is risible. US TV is far superior in every way and has been for many years.
Tim Davie, BBC director-general, said: “The BBC belongs to all of us and we all have a say in its future.
That reminds me of those people at work who would talk about their problem as if it was yours, everybody's, anybody's except theirs.
The idea is vg, DM but the issue as I see it is the political will to kick it off.
I didn't realise that the World Service was still going. Many years ago I used to take a short wave radio with me when I was abroad, to find out what was happening at home. Who has a short wave radio nowadays? Turns out that you can get the World Service via iplayer and the internet. I'd say that if you have the Internet, you don't need the World Service!
dearieme - good idea, it would be interesting to see how the shares fared on the exchanges and the response of the Board. We'd soon find out where the value is.
Professor - the contrast between BBC bloat and one or two people making interesting videos brings it home to me. Any idea where the BBC supports itself in a free market would highlight how much bloat there is, but quality may even improve with the bloat gone.
Sam - yes it's very revealing and in my experience very public sector.
James - yes, there's almost no political will at the moment.
Anon - ha ha, that's a very good point - what is the World Service for in the age of the internet?
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