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http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl >> News and Comment >> BBC as a "Publisher broadcaster"? http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1344255137 Message started by Mikej on Aug 6^th, 2012, 12:13pm

Title: BBC as a "Publisher broadcaster"?
Post by Mikej on Aug 6^th, 2012, 12:13pm

Wasn't this foreshadowed some years ago? The BBC sinking to just transmit programmes produced and, more importantly made, by non-BBC people?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/05/george-entwistle-wocc-doom-bbc

Title: Re: BBC as a "Publisher broadcaster"?
Post by david en france on Aug 6^th, 2012, 5:37pm

You have to see the comments that were attached to the article to get the bigger picture. I didn't know the author was an Indie Producer until I read that....but I might have guessed! Para 5 especially is preposterous. Apart from one idiot using the pseudonym "Rapture" (and who also uses a rather strange syntax) all the respondents are heavily critical of the article. And so am I. But he is correct in one point.....George Entwistle needs to make a neew start....maybe he is waiting until someone suggests a catchy new phrase like "Producer Choice" or "Delivering Quaity First"?