New BBC chief vows to re-invent content, not just re-purpose it
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Re: New BBC chief vows to re-invent content, not just re-purpose it
#2They could offer content directly to users in other countries for a nominal fee or per access fee and make more returns than they do offering up content to one provider or another for a lesser overall fee. Would be interesting and if done right would make piracy redundant. Could even add in the aspect of gaining viewing credits by filling in marketing information. ANything that makes the TV fee in the UK more palatable.
Re: New BBC chief vows to re-invent content, not just re-purpose it
#3If they're smart they'll try to create a profit model oriented around online services, and switch their revenue stream to be funded through this.
Currently they're funded through the "TV charge" which is a nasty footnote to life in the UK. Regularly I get hatemail through the letterbox telling me what a bad person I am for not paying the fee (mandatory for all owners of televisions), presuming that I have a TV.
Yes, you can call them up and tell them that you're not a crimial, but that's not how life in a free country is meant to work, and I'm damned if I'm going to play the game. "Return to sender" every time.
Re: New BBC chief vows to re-invent content, not just re-purpose it
#4If they're smart they'll try to create a profit model oriented around online services, and switch their revenue stream to be funded through this. Currently they're funded through the "TV charge" which is a nasty footnote to life in the UK. Regularly I get hatemail through the letterbox telling me what a bad person I am for not paying the fee (mandatory for all owners of televisions), presuming that I have a TV. Yes,…
Technically speaking, it's mandatory if you're receiving live broadcasts. You can have a television with no tuner without a license, and if you're watching live TV on your computer you're meant to have one.
Re: New BBC chief vows to re-invent content, not just re-purpose it
#5If they're smart they'll try to create a profit model oriented around online services, and switch their revenue stream to be funded through this. Currently they're funded through the "TV charge" which is a nasty footnote to life in the UK. Regularly I get hatemail through the letterbox telling me what a bad person I am for not paying the fee (mandatory for all owners of televisions), presuming that I have a TV. Yes,…
I just threw my nastygrams in the bin for 10 years. Didn't do me any harm in the long run. I did have some guy knocking on my door about it. He was "removed" from my property forcefully as he was trespassing. Nothing came of it.
I have a television now (for the children) but that is it. When they're gone, it's going as well.
Re: New BBC chief vows to re-invent content, not just re-purpose it
#6If they're smart they'll try to create a profit model oriented around online services, and switch their revenue stream to be funded through this. Currently they're funded through the "TV charge" which is a nasty footnote to life in the UK. Regularly I get hatemail through the letterbox telling me what a bad person I am for not paying the fee (mandatory for all owners of televisions), presuming that I have a TV. Yes,…
The idea is that the BBC maintains its independence by being financed through its own separately collected tax. The alternative is a system like they have in Australia where the state broadcasting company is a mouthpiece for the party in power, or like in the U.S. where commercial television speaks mainly for corporate interests. Out of all the taxes in the U.K., this is the one I resent least (especially because it's optional in the sense that you're entitled not to pay it if you don't want to have a tv).
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#7If they're smart they'll try to create a profit model oriented around online services, and switch their revenue stream to be funded through this. Currently they're funded through the "TV charge" which is a nasty footnote to life in the UK. Regularly I get hatemail through the letterbox telling me what a bad person I am for not paying the fee (mandatory for all owners of televisions), presuming that I have a TV. Yes,…
I felt like this for years- annoyed at the insistence that I pay the fee even though I don't own a TV. Then, in a moment of inspiration, I took 2 minutes to fill out the online form and haven't been bothered since.
However, the BBC offers quality TV without the even greater annoyance of incessant commercials. Take the Olympics: NBC was criticised for their delayed and edited broadcast while the BBC broadcast nearly all events live (some 20+ channels) and without any commercial breaks.
Unfortunately, we can't have commercial free TV without the fee.
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#8It seems that, in @pg's terms, Hollywood intends to kill itself.
Whatever pg meant by killing Hollywood, the BBC stands the best chance of convincingly creating a new platform - beyond passive video and phone-ins, into something that is experimental, MOO, and possibly Open.
Don't move to Silicon Valley. Move to Shepherds Bush.
Re: New BBC chief vows to re-invent content, not just re-purpose it
#9If they're smart they'll try to create a profit model oriented around online services, and switch their revenue stream to be funded through this. Currently they're funded through the "TV charge" which is a nasty footnote to life in the UK. Regularly I get hatemail through the letterbox telling me what a bad person I am for not paying the fee (mandatory for all owners of televisions), presuming that I have a TV. Yes,…
I'm quite surprised at that; they have a fairly good database and if you don't have a telly they will usually knock you off it after asking.
Nice emotive use of 'hatemail' though. Personally, I very much hope the BBC sticks to its existing funding model.
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#10If they're smart they'll try to create a profit model oriented around online services, and switch their revenue stream to be funded through this. Currently they're funded through the "TV charge" which is a nasty footnote to life in the UK. Regularly I get hatemail through the letterbox telling me what a bad person I am for not paying the fee (mandatory for all owners of televisions), presuming that I have a TV. Yes,…
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