BBC Strategy Review: a brief round up
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| 11:48 UK time, Tuesday, 2 March 2010
As a follow up to yesterday's round up ("Corporation's web pages are to be halved") you might be interested in a few things that have been published this morning.
Mark Thompson has blogged on the About the BBC blog about the Strategy Review:
"The BBC has one mission: to inform, educate and entertain audiences with programmes and services of high quality, originality and value. That is not up for debate. What today is about is how we are going to deliver that mission."
You can download the Strategy Review from the BBC Trust website and read all 70 odd pages for yourself. This is one section (on page 36) that caught my attention and perhaps explains the cutting the number of webpages in half confusion.
"The number of sections on the site (its 'top-level directories', which the public find through addresses in the form: bbc.co.uk/sitename) will be halved by 2012, with many sites closed and others consolidated, so that the sharpened focus of BBC Online will be visible in the structure of the service..."
There's now a 12 week public consultation during which you can have your say before the Trust publishes its final conclusions.
The Guardian live blogged the unveiling of the Strategy Review this morning. There's also the hastag #bbcreview on Twitter if you'd like to follow the action there.
Paul Murphy is still the Editor of of the BBC Internet blog (as far as he knows).
Comment number 1.
At 12:39 2nd Mar 2010, John_from_Hendon wrote:Question:
If CBBC is to be extended to 9pm does that mean that BBC3 or 4 will start later - this is unacceptable!
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Comment number 2.
At 16:55 2nd Mar 2010, Blind Alley wrote:@ 1
It would certainly be unacceptable if BBC 4 started later....
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Comment number 3.
At 09:27 9th Mar 2010, Trev wrote:I am not happy about the BBC doing this review. I think a review is badly need but it should be independent and outside the BBC. The big questions are what do we want from the BBC and should it be continued to be financed by the licence fee?.
The licence fee made sense in the early days of radio and television but that is not so clear in the multi channel enviroment. My view is that the licence fee should be scrapped or only used for a genuine public service. For me this has been the big failure of the BBC in that its public service broadcasting has become minimal.
As for the stratery review there is almost no mention of HDTV which causes one to conclude that the BBC do not have a stratergy for HD or they don't want anyone to know about it. The BBC HD channel with 9 hours of low quality mish mash of other channels is pathetic.
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Comment number 4.
At 10:50 9th Mar 2010, Russ wrote:Paul, could you please publish the list of the current four hundred top-level domains. (Should be a simple copy and paste job from your server.)
Russ
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Comment number 5.
At 12:58 9th Mar 2010, TV Licence fee payer against BBC censorship wrote:4. At 10:50am on 09 Mar 2010, Russ wrote:
"Paul, could you please publish the list of the current four hundred top-level domains."
What am I missing here, surely the TLD is the country, area or type domain (.uk .com .gov .eu .biz and so on), as defined by ICANN!
I think Russ meant the BBC's top level directory's... :)
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Comment number 6.
At 13:16 9th Mar 2010, Russ wrote:Correct, Boilerplated. I was merely using the term 'domains' as is being banded around elsewhere in the media, and since it is the term being used by Erik Huggers, Head of BBC Online, I thought I would stick to it.
You and I of course know them more accurately as 'directories'.
Russ
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