One thing that would instantly open up a new avenue of funding today/soon would be to allow foreign access to iPlayer. There are rights issues for some content, of course, but there's a huge demand for that, and it needn't be at the £13/mo level if it's just to augment the licence fee/offset Govt. cuts to funding. It could be a step towards your unbundling of BBC content; renegotiate with existing licensees to say 'Hey, we're going to be offering our content in your country. You can still carry the stuff you have already licensed, but any future deals will be cheaper, and you'll still get exclusive-to-your-market access to boxset-type content that may not be on iPlayer at all times'.
Gonna be hard for people to trust the Beeb if it keeps fighting the so called 'culture wars' on the side of the reactionaries. (e.g. that transphobic news article they published)
One possible for reason for having everything under one roof is that you maintain the cultural behemoth of the BBC brand. Part of the reason it has trust is that it is so familiar. I accept that a lot of that familiarity comes from when the BBC was half the television, and so that may go over time anyway, but not being ubiquitous may affect Auntie's levels of trust. It's also harder - but not impossible - to privatise things one little piece at a time if they're part of a big organisation that has political importance; it would be much easier to sell off or otherwise interfere with an agency set up to nurture talent (and particularly diverse talent, given the concerns that some parts of the media and politics have about wokeness) than to sell off the BBC.
One possible for reason for having everything under one roof is that you maintain the cultural behemoth of the BBC brand. Part of the reason it has trust is that it is so familiar. I accept that a lot of that familiarity comes from when the BBC was half the television, and so that may go over time anyway, but not being ubiquitous may affect Auntie's levels of trust. It's also harder - but not impossible - to privatise things one little piece at a time if they're part of a big organisation that has political importance; it would be much easier to sell off or otherwise interfere with an agency set up to nurture talent (and particularly diverse talent, given the concerns that some parts of the media and politics have about wokeness) than to sell off the BBC.
One thing that would instantly open up a new avenue of funding today/soon would be to allow foreign access to iPlayer. There are rights issues for some content, of course, but there's a huge demand for that, and it needn't be at the £13/mo level if it's just to augment the licence fee/offset Govt. cuts to funding. It could be a step towards your unbundling of BBC content; renegotiate with existing licensees to say 'Hey, we're going to be offering our content in your country. You can still carry the stuff you have already licensed, but any future deals will be cheaper, and you'll still get exclusive-to-your-market access to boxset-type content that may not be on iPlayer at all times'.
Gonna be hard for people to trust the Beeb if it keeps fighting the so called 'culture wars' on the side of the reactionaries. (e.g. that transphobic news article they published)
Blooming Genius....x
Very interesting.
One possible for reason for having everything under one roof is that you maintain the cultural behemoth of the BBC brand. Part of the reason it has trust is that it is so familiar. I accept that a lot of that familiarity comes from when the BBC was half the television, and so that may go over time anyway, but not being ubiquitous may affect Auntie's levels of trust. It's also harder - but not impossible - to privatise things one little piece at a time if they're part of a big organisation that has political importance; it would be much easier to sell off or otherwise interfere with an agency set up to nurture talent (and particularly diverse talent, given the concerns that some parts of the media and politics have about wokeness) than to sell off the BBC.
Very interesting.
One possible for reason for having everything under one roof is that you maintain the cultural behemoth of the BBC brand. Part of the reason it has trust is that it is so familiar. I accept that a lot of that familiarity comes from when the BBC was half the television, and so that may go over time anyway, but not being ubiquitous may affect Auntie's levels of trust. It's also harder - but not impossible - to privatise things one little piece at a time if they're part of a big organisation that has political importance; it would be much easier to sell off or otherwise interfere with an agency set up to nurture talent (and particularly diverse talent, given the concerns that some parts of the media and politics have about wokeness) than to sell off the BBC.