Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> BBC: Death by a thousand top-slices
>
> ,----[ Quoet ]
>| So it looks like the end of the unique, state-centric model for funding the
>| BBC. An incoming Conservative administration is unlikely to be more
>| sympathetic to the BBC, with its stifling bureucracy and monopoly control
>| over a compulsory tax.
> `----
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/18/bbc_top_slicing/
>
It's a crying shame, as we're likely to end up with US-style television,
at which point, you might as well junk your television and do almost
anything else instead. Unfortunately, the current management have got
themselves caught up in another of those rather pointless viewership
battles, and are p*ssing money into the wind. Private Eye recently
reported on the hiring of 4,000 managers in order to reduce production
staff by 2,000. This is the kind of arithmetic likely to bring the
licence to an end.
Couple that with over £60 million thrown at Siemens to "digitise"
production in Scotland and all the problems that has brought, along with
£120 million for the Silverlight/iPlayer with it's Windows-only model
and appalling take-up, and things do not look good for the BBC.
Oddly, the old governance model worked so much better than the current
"trust" model.
To sum up, you cannot trust the Trust, but the Governors certainly did
know how to Govern.
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