BBC - quo vadis?

[robint]

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:

[tobyjugg2]

£6 mill for Wuss , competitive bidding for sports games etc

 

Beeb not required to offer and compete for public sport programs (the commercial stations are well able to satisfy this demand)

 

I think that is the core problem.

 

The commercial stations will bid high for those because they will get advertising revenue.

The BBC bidding on these just artificially raises the bids and cost.

 

Not quite that simple, as the BBC will get some revenue from holding the rights, but enough to pay the licence fee payers money back?

[robint]

Exactly right TJ

The BBC is a public service needing only to satisfy excellence and addressing public welfare. Who would dare argue against the Welsh and their language program, the Scots and RC Nesbitt, the Chavs and Eastenders

 

As for Crossroads, well ITV is welcome to that

 

Commercial stations live by audience figures. Its how they get revenue. Making the Beeb compete on these terms is a travesty of their Royal Charter

[citizenB]

Beeb to be supervised by an apolitical council of "wise persons" chosen by public consent (renegotiated every 3 years. Absolutely no political appointments.

 

I agree with this. But perhaps with a longer tenure of 5 years.