The bbc, again.

[ASCPFC]

New DG, poor sod . . .

Is ex-Google boss Matt Brittin the right person to steer the BBC?

BBC media editor Katie Razzall says the former Google exec has been chosen for his insider knowledge of big tech.

www.bbc.co.uk

They admit to "mistake after editorial mistake" in this piece. Surely not?

 

[Spindle]

And you get clowns on here telling you that the BBC isn't left wing and is objective and balanced.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2035836776137232652

They're even showing a drama portraying the cops as pro immigrant and against the people who are against it. Brilliant.

 

[Badger11]

New DG, poor sod . . .

Is ex-Google boss Matt Brittin the right person to steer the BBC?

BBC media editor Katie Razzall says the former Google exec has been chosen for his insider knowledge of big tech.

www.bbc.co.uk

Tough job he has 3 major problems in no particular order:

- Replacing the Licence Fee
- Percieved Political Bias
- Falling viewer numbers

Licence Fee
The BBC actually wants to scrap it because it is costly to run and they get pelters when a single unemployed mum ends in in court for non payment. The preferred funding model is to add it onto the broadband bill or have some form of staggered fee based on income.

If he has any commonsense he will start to cut back on peripheral areas that the BBC has got involved in and save the taxpayer money. Then he will have a stronger argument with Parliament. Constantly asking for more money as the BBC grows and grows is not the answer.

Political Bias
He has got to get to grips with this. Clearly the protocols within the beeb are not working as they keeping making the same silly mistakes and always one way.

Viewing Numbers
The Kings Speech on Christmas day had the biggest audience of around 4m that should be really worrying. It's not just the beeb the other terrestrial channels have the same issue as streaming is wiping the floor with them.

 

[Stirlingsays]

Tough job he has 3 major problems in no particular order:

- Replacing the Licence Fee
- Percieved Political Bias
- Falling viewer numbers

Licence Fee
The BBC actually wants to scrap it because it is costly to run and they get pelters when a single unemployed mum ends in in court for non payment. The preferred funding model is to add it onto the broadband bill or have some form of staggered fee based on income.

If he has any commonsense he will start to cut back on peripheral areas that the BBC has got involved in and save the taxpayer money. Then he will have a stronger argument with Parliament. Constantly asking for more money as the BBC grows and grows is not the answer.

Political Bias
He has got to get to grips with this. Clearly the protocols within the beeb are not working as they keeping making the same silly mistakes and always one way.

Viewing Numbers
The Kings Speech on Christmas day had the biggest audience of around 4m that should be really worrying. It's not just the beeb the other terrestrial channels have the same issue as streaming is wiping the floor with them.

The time to rescue the BBC was over twenty years ago.

It had its chance to ensure a balance between left and right....as was internally suggested but rejected.

The moment I heard that I always knew that it was on a timer. The timer is as soon as a real right wing government come in. They can sign as long a contract as they like.....as right wing people find out in the courts.....it's not what the law says it's who interprets the law that matters.

It can't be fixed, its employment base is essentially Emily Maitlis times several thousand......any new director pushing a different path would be met with institutional pushback the same way Trump was in his first admin.

It's future is either as a vastly stripped down service, a commercial station or firing the whole lot of them and make these champagne socialists actually work a real job.

 

[Runningman]

The time to rescue the BBC was over twenty years ago.

It had its chance to ensure a balance between left and right....as was internally suggested but rejected.

The moment I heard that I always knew that it was on a timer. The timer is as soon as a real right wing government come in. They can sign as long a contract as they like.....as right wing people find out in the courts.....it's not what the law says it's who interprets the law that matters.

It can't be fixed, its employment base is essentially Emily Maitlis times several thousand......any new director pushing a different path would be met with institutional pushback the same way Trump was in his first admin.

It's future is either as a vastly stripped down service, a commercial station or firing the whole lot of them and make these champagne socialists actually work a real job.

Clutches pearls !

 

[Badger11]

Clutches pearls !

The BBC is reaching a crossroads whether it knows it or not.

As I said terrestrial TV across the world is in free fall so the current model is going to be harder and harder to defend. Quite how the BBC (and other TV companies) respond is the big question.

I have no idea what the remit of the new DG is but it would not surprise me if it is steady as she goes. The BBC is very institutionalised and I doubt will welcome change.

In an article welcoming the new DG they reference that when at Google 300 local newspapers closed because the customers could get the news free from Google. An odd thing to say considering the BBC has been criticised many time for dominating the local news media in the UK and strangling any competition. That line has now disappeared probably because someone pointed out it's tone deaf to criticise Google for being a monopoly when you yourself are one.

I am not a fan of the beeb but it will be interesting to see how he tackles there real issues (or not).