Say the government had given the BBC an increase that met the inflation seen in programme production, which is apparenly quite high, would that save the BBC? No, not at all. A licence fee for a house… (View Post)

Nobody seems to have a plan. This sort of thing happens in the computing world all the time, the incumbent dismisses the upstarts until it is too late, and usually ends up either dead or a shadow of … (View Post)

I notice that the BBC have already adopted the position of "we'll just have to scrap all the things you like". Even if you think the government are wrong about the licence fee, the BBC… (View Post)

I haven't seen the programme but it sounded fishy to me on a report I heard earlier. This is a form of a particularly annoying type of "journalism" where they breathlessly report that … (View Post)

I genuinely do not understand how the BBC and BBC supporters look at the reports that Ofcom has been regularly churning out for years and years and think "carry on". If I was in management … (View Post)