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BBC: British Broadcasting Crisis?
Prof. Charlie BeckettDirector, Polis
London School of EconomicsIfM, Berlin, April 30th 2013
A history of crisis
• 1926 General Strike• IRA censorship• Death on the Rock• Hutton Report
A question of trust
• Olympic coverage• Savile – the abuse scandal• Savile – the editorial scandal• MacAlpine Newsnight• Entwistle• Pollard Report
Trust in Tony (Hall)
• Political Ding Dong • LSE Korea• Appointments • Pay off cap
Medium Term Problems
• Budget cuts• Integration of World• Inefficiencies• Management responsibilities• Charter negotiations for 2016
Political reasons to be cheerful
• Has good leadership again• Has addressed its own failings openly• Still has incredible resources, reach and public
approval• There is no agenda to dismantle the BBC
Challenges: internally
• Moving from fortress to networked organisation:• Less internal division• Move from producer to service model – i.e. not
there for its own staff• More external collaboration• Commissioning model?• End of the channel model• Definition of the brand – what is public service?
universality?
Public Service Media Challenge
• Creative industry hub• Citizen information and engagement service• Competitive media company• Network innovation pioneer• Ethical, social, added value
Longer-term problems
• End of licence fee (see Finland and Sweden)• Prioritisation v universality• Competition eg Sky, AJE, Netflix, YouTube• Moving from fortress to networked
organisation • End of ‘the channel’
Why PSM should thrive
• Funding • Reputation• Trust• Social function• Confidence and competence in an age of
complexity and uncertainty
BBC: British Broadcasting Crisis?
Prof. Charlie BeckettDirector, Polis
London School of EconomicsIfM, Berlin, April 30th, 2013