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Imagining a future for the BBC

· Media & Journalism · UK affairs

The worthy IEA are hosting a panel discussion tonight called: The future of the BBC.

Guess what I would like to see for the BBC…

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March 9th, 2015 |

14 comments to Imagining a future for the BBC

  • Mr Ed
    March 9, 2015 at 2:40 pm

    No, not nukes, let them live to see the ruins, and nationalise, er, ‘liberate’ their pension funds to cut the ‘deficit’. Drop these instead, after evacuating ‘Media City’ and all their premises prior to flattening.

  • John Galt
    March 9, 2015 at 4:35 pm

    Actually, I don’t think it is about the future of the BBC, but rather the future of the “Unique way in which it is funded”, after all I can imagine no other way that a sclerotic and bureaucratic organisation such as the BBC could continue to exist in its current form without the 4 billion pounds pumped into it each year extracted from the license fee.

    A BBC funded by subscriptions for primary content, with some taxpayer contributions for News and children’s television (as has been proposed), is unlikely to bring in a 4 billion pound a year cash cow without BBC managers even breaking into a sweat. In fact I suspect that a primarily subscription based BBC would struggle to generate 1 billion a year, even with government support.

    The sooner the better. When the BBC is reduced to a single office in Hull for factual and unbiased news and externally produced children’s programmes then it might have a future.

    The fatted calf that exists at the moment, does not.

  • Regional
    March 9, 2015 at 6:40 pm

    Top Gear and the Police Dramas are foreign exchange earners that subsidise the camp commy crap churned out by our betters.

  • Sloper
    March 9, 2015 at 7:44 pm

    As a once staunch defender of the BBC I can no longer answer the call to arms: the catastrophe of iKatz as editor of Newsnight and the rampant drivel that now passes of quality radio inevitably leads one to only one conclusion, it is time to make the BBC dependent on advertising.

    In combative moments (i.e. when breathing) I will opine on subjects of which I know little, for example art: my sine qua non for something to be described as art is if you can’t walk past it without noticing it is art and there are now too few distinguishing features between the output of the BBC and the commercial broadcasters to merit the funding mechanism.

  • AKM
    March 9, 2015 at 8:32 pm

    My preference for the BBC; Fire them all and put a nice cheerful yellow smiley face sticker on each and every one of their P45s. Then knock down BBC television centre and build a statue to the victims of socialism from the rubble. Maybe then they’ll get the message.

  • JohnW
    March 9, 2015 at 10:23 pm

    Awesome picture – a sublime illustration of the power of reason – the BBC representing the very opposite.

  • Paul Marks
    March 9, 2015 at 10:29 pm

    The BBC should indeed be defunded – no more “license fee”.

    However it should be remembered that “independent” television and radio is just as bad as the BBC – government regulations see to that.

    All the news shows have the same collectivist “Social Justice” view of the world – ditto the entertainment shows.

  • Nicholas (Natural Genius) Gray
    March 9, 2015 at 11:58 pm

    Perhaps the BBC could exist on rentals of videos of the shows they produce- there are enough spin-offs from Doctor Who to subsidise whole countries! Instead of the Beeb doing repeats, it earns all its’ income from rentals and product placements. Whilst it will be a shock to see Doctor Who spruiking watches, won’t it also seem logical?

  • Schrodinger's Dog
    March 10, 2015 at 1:49 am

    Perry,

    You gave me a laugh after a rather boring day.

    Thanks. 🙂

    SD

  • Lee Moore
    March 10, 2015 at 8:19 pm

    When the BBC is reduced to a single office in Hull for factual and unbiased news and externally produced children’s programmes then it might have a future

    I will have to beg to differ. If and when the BBC is reduced to a single office in Hull, it will still be producing socialist and progressive propaganda from that office. That is what it does. That is its nature. It is insufficient to get rid of its access to the state teat. It would even be insufficient to remove its mouth from the teat AND auction its bit of the spectrum. Because the long long years of state teatism have created an institution that is capable of fastening on to another teat and continuing la lutta from there. Razing it, and then salting the ground on which it stood was the old way. Perry’s way is better. The earth stays salted longer.

  • Darrell
    March 11, 2015 at 2:42 am

    And now I read that the BBC has suspended Jeremy Clarkson, and put new episodes of Top Gear on hold. Cutting off their noses to spite their faces???

  • NickM
    March 12, 2015 at 9:39 am

    I think Paul is right. The BBC is only unique in the way it is funded. ITV, C4, C5 and Sky and the rest are just the same.

  • Perry de Havilland (London)
    March 12, 2015 at 10:01 am

    How it is funded makes all the difference

  • Slartibartfarst
    March 19, 2015 at 11:40 am

    Hahaha. Very droll. A picture’s worth a thousand words.

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