You cannot post any critique of the Beeb on a Beeb website. They don't like it up 'em. But where to go from their egregious past blunderings? £6 mill for Wuss , competitive bidding for sports games etc
IMHO scrap the licence fee and replace it with a per capita levy taken from the central tax revenues. A fixed percentage by parliament act. Done deal.
BBC to scrap ch 3 and amalgamate 4 with 2. Keep regional stations supporting local culture and language.
Beeb to get back to its core principles as a public broadcaster.
Remove the yardstick (enforced by Thatcher) requiring the Beeb to compete for audience figures. Let it instead be judged on excellence
Beeb not required to offer and compete for public sport programs (the commercial stations are well able to satisfy this demand)
Beeb to be supervised by an apolitical council of "wise persons" chosen by public consent (renegotiated every 3 years. Absolutely no political appointments.
Beeb to stand back from political grandstanding and staging confrontational debates (most clearly against their charter
All persons employed by or under contract to the Beeb must submit to a CRB check.
All contacts with 3rd party name of individuals, groups, organisations to be logged and recorded in a daily register
A register of outside interest of BBC employees must be maintained
Thats right, a new clean screen for the BBC - something we can trust:mad2: