Where would we be without the BEEB?

[sandGroundZero]

Alikado post #30

"Which ever, many channels and services would instantly go as they are not revenue generators, the Government would either have to take them over or pay the BBC the half billion or so per year it costs to pump the Governments propaganda out to the world, the World sees the BBC as respectable, honest and trustworthy any other label wouldn't work for the Government."

We will see which of the many BBC services including diverse television channels people are prepared to pay for.

We have had a week or so ago, a television retuning and I believe another due in April. These are squeezing the broadcast signal to make room for 5G. Eventually, television will be received through cables — the Negroponte Switch. This is necessary to free-up the air-waves for the many mobile and Internet of Things devices we are promised will transform our lives. In effect, entertainment will be streamed. The choices broadly — 'free' except for all of our personal data, or else subscription.

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Alikado post #30

"Which ever, many channels and services would instantly go as they are not revenue generators, the Government would either have to take them over or pay the BBC the half billion or so per year it costs to pump the Governments propaganda out to the world, the World sees the BBC as respectable, honest and trustworthy any other label wouldn't work for the Government."

We will see which of the many BBC services including diverse television channels people are prepared to pay for.

We have had a week or so ago, a television retuning and I believe another due in April. These are squeezing the broadcast signal to make room for 5G. Eventually, television will be received through cables — the Negroponte Switch. This is necessary to free-up the air-waves for the many mobile and Internet of Things devices we are promised will transform our lives. In effect, entertainment will be streamed. The choices broadly — 'free' except for all of our personal data, or else subscription.

Europe is lost,
Congolese migrants burn Paris main train station.
Then attack firefighters trying to stop the blaze.
Anything on BBC News?

BBC censoring news because “Aunty knows best”? Thank God for social media, Al Jazeera, Canal Plus, CNN, RT.com, Euronews, China TV, etc

[Alikado]

Europe is lost,
Congolese migrants burn Paris main train station.
Then attack firefighters trying to stop the blaze.
Anything on BBC News?

BBC censoring news because “Aunty knows best”? Thank God for social media, Al Jazeera, Canal Plus, CNN, RT.com, Euronews, China TV, etc

The first I knew of it was on BBC website.

[sandGroundZero]

What if the BBC's funding continues to be by means of the TV Licence?

Will the BBC change, anyway? If yes, how?

The BBC3 channel, formerly broadcast over the airwaves, but was consigned to the internet. The trend is for broadcast television to be squeezed out; in only a few years time, all television (such as it will be) will arrive through fibre optic cables so that the bandwidth is available for other uses.

The BBC's current structure does appear to be top-heavy and Oxbridge graduates are represented out of proportion to their numbers in the population at large. In the 21st century live-streamed video has undermined the business model of mainstream television. Launching a video service is comparatively cheap. The BBC and indeed ITV are feeling the pinch. Paternalistic notions are passé.

[sandGroundZero]

In 2014 a collection of essays titled: 2024: The Future of Television was published. It is a free ebook; available online.

As we're now 60% of the way through the ten year horizon of the essays, it makes for a useful examination of crystal ball gazing applied to television!

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[sandGroundZero]

It follows a news agenda set by media oligarchs.

Six years ago, Robert Peston, then the BBC’s economics editor, remarked that BBC news is “completely obsessed by the agenda set by newspapers”, especially the Mail and the Telegraph.
…
These newspapers do not report the news: they create it. Every day, massive events happen: environmental disasters, theft and fraud by the very rich, power grabs and attacks on democracy. Instead of reporting them, the newspapers concoct scandals out of marginal topics, or out of thin air. They turn the public anger that should be directed at billionaires and corporations against refugees, Muslims, the “woke”, the poor. News in the UK is the propaganda of the oligarch, amplified by the BBC. — George Monbiot ex: Guardian

Geortge Monbiot

[Hamble]

Jeremy Corbyn endorser?

Just going to believe everything he spouts.

[Blackrock]

The short answer to all of this is simple. If you don't like it - don't watch it ! There are plenty of alternatives available.

[Alikado]

The BBC is getting worse, the Government has them scared the content of the website is either Government & Royaltly propaganda or 'Coffee table' book content the TV channels are little different.

[joan ofarc]

The short answer to all of this is simple. If you don't like it - don't watch it ! There are plenty of alternatives available.

Ah, but therein lies a problem. 24 hour news is driven by content and any old content will do. There are too many so-called news channels filling up air time with garbage. CNN will talk about the same topic for the whole day and days on end. God forbid there is a hurricane...for the whole week before it arrives A HURRICANE IS COMING. Then a week of the devastation and idiot reporters standing in a gale to show how windy it is. Then at least another week of the aftermath and political in-fighting. Other channels are just as bad. And while they whitter on about the latest Trump craziness from morn till night the chyron is showing much more interesting and important topics that barely get a mention.
What we , and probably the world, needs is a news bulletin that actually reports things that have happened, not are about to happen and not commentary, which often skirts around opinion. We don't need BBC investigations which take up the first 15 minutes of a bulletin. There are plenty of news based programmes for that. We definitely don't need news readers who, with a look or a raised eyebrow interject themselves into the news. We also need a wider range of topics each day. I nearly felt my brain bleed from the concentration on Brexit, week after week, to the exclusion of anything else. I stopped watching the news then and only just got back to it on a reguar basis when Covid came upon us.
The BBC news has lost it's way. Let's get back to news which is actual news. It could probably be done in an authoritative twenty minute bulletin 3 or 4 times a day. News hounds and addicts can get in depth discussion from pundits and interviews etc in other programmes preferably all on the news channel.

[Desert Region]

CNN will talk about the same topic for the whole day and days on end. God forbid there is a hurricane...for the whole week before it arrives A HURRICANE IS COMING. Then a week of the devastation and idiot reporters standing in a gale to show how windy it is.

[sandGroundZero]

The problem with all media is that they are able to be captured and used to disseminate a distorted agenda. The BBC has been (probably) unique in the world in the manner by which it has been funded. The TV License and the Corporation's Charter have insulated it from commercial pressures; certainly to the extent that the BEEB has become the target of a concerted campaign to alter it.

Rupert Murdoch

News International controlled by Rupert Murdoch has spearheaded this campaign supported by a variety of individuals and organizations whose intentions are worthy of careful scrutiny.

___________________

By the by, scrutiny is what George Monbiot does. That possibly explains why some dislike him!
[Citing 'CORBYN' is weak, as obloquy goes.]

[Toodles McGinty]

Then a week of the devastation and idiot reporters standing in a gale to show how windy it is.

Why do they do that? With metal road signs almost scything their heads off. Or the insistence on standing in several feet of water when there's a patch of dry land in plain view behind them.

Even the Beeb does that. Some reporter finds a huge puddle, while the public mosey past in the background with perfectly dry feet.

Not as bad as the US channel's 'if the water was this deep' graphics, where the water is eventually 3 feet above their heads, with cars and debris swirling behind them. I expect crocodiles to come looming at them, as in the movie 'Crawl'.

[Hamble]

"The BBC, which is legally obliged to be an equal opportunities employer, had a 2012 target for 12.5% of its staff to be from a black or minority ethnic background (12% at 31 January 2009).[24] The BBC's buildings are largely based in urban areas with a more diverse demography than the country as a whole (30% ethnic minority population in London and about 15% in the Manchester/Salford area), and the 12.5% figure is over 4% higher than the current percentage of ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom as a whole. However, many of its ethnic minority members of staff have been argued to be cleaners and security guards, not presenters and programme makers.[25] The Guardian reported:l, "The BBC has pledged to increase the number of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people on air by more than 40% over the next three years and almost double the number of senior managers from those groups who work at the corporation by 2020".[26]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC


The BBC is only going to get more left in its views.

Also wants a leftist platform to minimise litigation from the left complaining about center right views.

I am happy to pay the license knowing the terms puzzled why the left political viewpoint would pay for a service practising all they accuse and the Tory party of representing.

[Alikado]

Why do they do that? With metal road signs almost scything their heads off. Or the insistence on standing in several feet of water when there's a patch of dry land in plain view behind them.

Even the Beeb does that. Some reporter finds a huge puddle, while the public mosey past in the background with perfectly dry feet.

Not as bad as the US channel's 'if the water was this deep' graphics, where the water is eventually 3 feet above their heads, with cars and debris swirling behind them. I expect crocodiles to come looming at them, as in the movie 'Crawl'.

What I find comical is when they have to pad it out and the reporters start interviewing each other.