Public service 'key' to BBC remit
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The BBC should focus on core public service broadcasting, a panel set up by the government says.
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London - The British Broadcasting Corporation, the world&#39;s biggest public broadcaster, is to cut almost a quarter of its 28 000-strong workforce, in the biggest shake-up in its 82-year history, The Times newspaper in London said on Monday.
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(InfoWorld) - MicrosoftÂ and the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) said they plan to explore cutting edge ways that the BBC can deliver content. The announcement, made Thursday, follows one earlier this year from the BBC when the broadcaster said it is working on launching services that allow it toÂ deliver content to usersÂ whenever they want it and on a variety of devices. The BBC stressed that the partnership with Microsoft is nonexclusive. The broadcaster has a long-standing relationship with RealNetworks, which includes the launch late last year of BBC World News as part of the RealNetworks SuperPass streaming video service in the U.S. The BBC has other streaming media offerings through RealNetworks around the world. As part of the Microsoft announcement, the BBC said it wants to work with many companies in the content distribution area so that viewers don't have to visit the main BBC Web site to find content. Some of the types of services the companies may collaborate on include search, site navigation, and distribution. The BBC said it considers Microsoft to be a gateway to audiences that the BBC wishes to reach, through services such as MSN, Windows Live, the Xbox and Windows Media Center. The BBC and Microsoft also discussed new strategies from the BBC, including its plans for an online archive, a new Web site and new ways to distribute online content. As part of its announcement earlier this year, the BBC launched a trial Web site where visitors could find information about the one million programs stored in the BBC's archive. The broadcaster also said it was investigating better ways to label content in order to improve search and that it planned to launch a streaming media service.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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LONDON: Senior government officials rallied Sunday to support a High Court ruling that forbids the BBC, Britain's public service broadcaster, to transmit news about an alleged campaign finance scandal under ...Comment
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Radical new plans outlining the future of the BBC will be announced, including including thousands of job cuts. Do you agree with the plans?
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The BBC, the world's biggest public broadcaster, is to cut almost a quarter of its 28 000-strong workforce, in the biggest shake-up in its 82-year history, The Times newspaper in London said on Monday.
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Mark Thompson, director-general of the BBC, has announced sweeping changes to the corporation including savings of Â£320m and thousands of job cuts for a more enhanced national broadcaster.
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Britain&#39;s public service broadcaster, the British Broadcasting Corporation, said on Wednesday that it had been in touch with the American media giants Time Warner and Walt Disney
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London, Dec 7 : The BBC today said it would cut about 2,900 jobs, more than 10 per cent of its workforce, as part of &quot;transformation&quot; of the world&#39;s biggest public broadcaster aimed at saving 320 million pounds a year.
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ELEANOR HALL: To Britain now, where the world&#39;s largest public broadcaster, the BBC, is about to undergo what its Director-General is calling a &quot;transformation&quot;.
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Salaries paid to TV and radio personalities such as Jonathan Ross are to be reviewed by the BBC Trust.
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Keeping skewed markets on an even keel The European Commission will investigate public service broadcasting's use of new media to determine whether state aid to broadcasters is unfair to commercial competitors.â¦
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Not good value The Public Accounts Committee said the BBC failed to ensure it got best value when it outsourced its IT department to Siemens.â¦
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Britain's media regulator said Tuesday it will consult the public on plans by British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC to launch pay-TV services on the country's free-to-air digital TV platform.
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BBC staff are bracing themselves for possible mass redundancies as a radical restructuring plan is due to be announced by the corporation.
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LOS ANGELES  In some of the harshest cutbacks in the public broadcaster&#39;s 89-year history, the BBC announced plans on Tuesday (Dec. 7) to cut roughly 10 percent of its workforce over the next three years.
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The BBC has a long and glorious past as a technological innovator.  Throughout the history of broadcasting, it has often been the first to develop and promote new technologies.   Sadly, it seems now to be teetering on the brink of making technical choices that will not only damage its own reputation as a world-class institution, but which will also have serious knock-on consequences for free software.