Blogging the Beeb

BBC Future and Funding

I am well behind on noting developments in the BBC's Charter Renewal process:

The BBC Governors published the BBC's value for money report on its HR section in April.

The BBC Governorsd also published Patrick Barwise's report on public opinion on the Licence Fee.

DCMS published the independent review of the BBC Licence Fee Bid/Funding needs.

Mark Thompson's Creative Review of the BBC is published here and the detailed press briefing is here. His Fleming lecture giving more detail is here. Its new media plans are here. There is more on the BBC's Integrated Media Player, the iPlayer, here.

DCMS made appointments to the new BBC Trust from the BBC Governors.

DCMS published the White Paper on the Future of the BBC. The BBC Governors respoonse is set out here. Michael Grade's speech in response is here. Mark Thompson's BBC 2.0 speech is here.

BBC and Digital

Apparently the public doesn't want the BBC to carry the Governent's digital burden.

And the papers

The Guardian says OFCOM will be able to assess the BBC's market impact. Greg Dyke comments on the proposals on governance in particular.

Blogs on White Paper

The bloggers are out in force in advance of the BBC White Paper publication.

Here's Stephen Pollard.

And Mediawatchwatch.

And Laban at Biased-BBC.

OFCOMwatch had this interview with Select Committee Chair John Whittingdale last week.

Lords' Committee reports

The House of Lords' Committee on the BBC has reported. Here's the Guardian, and here's Ofcomwatch.

The issue making the headlines is the call for greater Parliamentary scrutiny over the setting of the licence fee.

Mobile licences

Ofcomwatch clarifies the situation on mobile TV.

New NAO Probe

The NAO is now likely to begin a probe into the cost of Broadcasting House's revamp, following its previous report.

PAC Slams BBC Overspend

The Times is reporting that the Public Accounts Committee will today attack a BBC overspend on its White City development.

Government responds to Lords

The Government has published its response to the first of the Lords Select Committee reports on the future of the BBC. MediaGuardian covers the response of Lord Fowler, Chair of the Committee.

Various

Too busy to blog recently. As an update, the BBC plans to reduce finance jobs and move some to Cardiff, there's been a restructuring of the BBC senior board by Mark Thompson, and there are plans to split the BBC's Kingswood Warren research team and move part of it to Manchester.

David Elstein is interviewed about the BBC by Digital Spy. Via.

Interesting post on ReinventTV about the economics of TV in the Video on Demand age.