Delivering Quality First: Proposals
Post categories: Â鶹Éç Trust,Ìýaccountability,Ìýstakeholders
| 14:00 UK time, Thursday, 6 October 2011
Mark Thompson and other senior managers are today announcing specific proposals to reduce Â鶹Éç spending by 20% - "Delivering Quality First".
Lord Patten, Chair of the Â鶹Éç Trust, summed up the overall context. This is what he said about Â鶹Éç Online:
We will stick to the plan that has reduced Â鶹Éç Online's budget by 25 per cent in the past year. We will continue, however, to look to the Â鶹Éç to invest in new technology where it can add to the audience experience – whether through the development of HD, through access to the back catalogue or through internet-connected television in all its forms.
The detailed proposals [PDF] talk of investing in digital public space, and a digital innovation fund of £40pa to help support, amongst other things, putting Â鶹Éç content across four screens and making the Â鶹Éç's back-catalogue available.
The document sums up the Â鶹Éç's proposals for red button services as:
- Reduce the number of video streams available on satellite and cable from nine to one to provide a more consistent service across all TV platforms. This would take place towards the end of 2012, after the Olympic Games
- Close the news multiscreen service
- Develop new Internet Protocol Television services for connected TV sets, with access through the Â鶹Éç Red Button
Please go to the DQF website to find out more, or to the Â鶹Éç Trust consultation to give your opinion.
Ian McDonald is the Content Producer, Â鶹Éç Internet Blog
