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Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215553645 Total Pages :76 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (536 download)
Book Synopsis Scrutiny of Value for Money at the Bbc by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
Download or read book Scrutiny of Value for Money at the Bbc written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating HC 359-i and 494-i of session 2009-10, this report draws on the work of the Committee and the National Audit Office since 2003 in examining the BBC's approach to financial matters.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Culture, Media and Sport Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215038289 Total Pages :40 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (382 download)
Book Synopsis BBC annual report and accounts 2006-07 by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Download or read book BBC annual report and accounts 2006-07 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Culture, Media and Sport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Culture, Media and Sport Committee's oral evidence session on the BBC annual report and accounts 2006-07 was followed up with some written questions. The Committee has concerns about the structure and content of the BBC reply to those questions. In particular it is not clear why the BBC Trust takes different views on transparency of employee costs and on transparency of talent (presenters or actors etc) costs, and why grouping of payments in bands for one but not the other presents data protection or breach of confidence issues. The Committee also questions why viewing figures for BBC3 are given in three-minute reach figures rather than the standard 15-minute reach used throughout the annual report, and why the BBC3 figures excluding repeats of BB1 programmes were not provided. On Freesat, a joint venture to provide a national satellite-based free-to-view digital service, the failure to disclose the contribution of the licence-fee payer is held to be unreasonable. The Committee would like greater clarity about who speaks for the BBC: the Trust or Executive. Future responses should make clear where accountability lies for particular issues, and the BBC should take a more constructive approach to responding to Parliamentary scrutiny.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215514998 Total Pages :48 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (149 download)
Book Synopsis BBC Procurement by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Download or read book BBC Procurement written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The BBC spends over £500 million each year on goods and services ranging from broadcast specific products to more generic items. It has a centralised procurement function and manages spending along category, enabling it to control its spending more effectively than in the past. The BBC was aiming to deliver £75 million savings from procurement in the three years to April 2008, and is on course to achieve those. But savings have varied widely between categories and it has achieved least from those where it has spent most, Production Resources and Technology and Broadcast Equipment. In recent years the BBC has used fewer suppliers and has established central contracts for a greater proportion of its goods and services, but in 2006-07 it still used over 17,000 suppliers. That year the BBC spent more than £200 million through local deals and made nearly 38,000 individual purchases from suppliers with which it had no central contract. During 2006-07 the BBC introduced an upgraded electronic purchasing system, but 2,000 of the 4,500 licences it had paid for to give staff access to the system were not being used. The average cost of processing a purchase using the system is £6, although the cost is more than six times greater when buyers do not use a central contract. The BBC uses technology across all of its procurement activities, including letting tenders through eAuctions. The BBC has made estimated annual savings of £3 million (14 per cent) from the 19 eAuctions it ran between April 2005 and March 2007, but since then had let only five more contracts in this way.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215530592 Total Pages :36 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (35 download)
Book Synopsis The efficiency of radio production at the BBC by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Download or read book The efficiency of radio production at the BBC written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The BBC, in 2007-08, spent £462 million on its 16 radio stations. The BBC has set these 16 stations a combined target of efficiency savings of £69 million over the five year period to March 2013, representing an annual saving of 3 per cent. The BBC proposed unacceptable constraints on the Comptroller and Auditor General's access to information and his discretion to report to his findings to Parliament. The situation arose because the Comptroller and Auditor General does not have statutory unrestricted rights of access to the BBC, which he does with all other publicly funded bodies. The BBC has wide ranges of costs for similar programmes within and between its radio stations. The average cost for an hour of comparable music programmes on Radio 2 is more than 50 per cent higher than on Radio 1. For most breakfast and 'drivetime' slots, the BBC's costs are significantly higher than commercial stations, largely because of payments to presenters. The BBC has not used cost comparisons across its own programmes, or against commercial radio, to identify scope for efficiencies. The BBC uses its principal value for money indicator-cost per listener hour-to justify the cost of presenters on the basis of audience size, but the indicator does not provide assurance that programme costs are the minimum necessary to reach the required quality and intended audience. For most radio programmes, presenters' salaries represent the majority of programming costs, but the BBC is paying more than the market price for its top radio presenters. The BBC has prevented full public scrutiny of the value for money of expenditure on presenters by agreeing confidentiality clauses with some presenters.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the BBC Charter Review Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780104007518 Total Pages :548 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (75 download)
Book Synopsis The Review of the BBC's Royal Charter by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the BBC Charter Review
Download or read book The Review of the BBC's Royal Charter written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the BBC Charter Review and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: review of the BBCs royal Charter : 1st report of session 2005-06, Vol. 2: Evidence
Book Synopsis S4C by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Welsh Affairs Committee
Download or read book S4C written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Welsh Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a report on the proposed changes to S4C's funding and governance by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) following the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review. The Committee says a deal over S4C's future was struck in "regrettable haste" by the BBC and Ministers, and that more detail should be given on the proposed funding and governance arrangements for the broadcaster. Nevertheless, the committee argues that the proposed deal should result in synergies and cost savings for both broadcasters. With studies estimating that S4C is responsible for sustaining over 2,000 jobs in Wales and contributing £90-100 million to the Welsh economy, it is crucial that S4C continues to independently commission its programming from production companies based in Wales, rather than additional programming being supplied to the channel by the BBC. Under the Government's proposed arrangements, S4C's funding will shift from being provided by a direct grant from DCMS to funding through the BBC's licence fee. While it is essential that the DCMS, the BBC and S4C work together to achieve potential synergies and efficiencies, this must not detract from S4C's independence. The DCMS and the BBC must guarantee S4C's funding and ensure that S4C receives in full its allocated portion of the licence fee. The Committee also argue for an enhanced role for the National Assembly for Wales in holding the S4C Authority to account for its performance and for a wider review of the purpose and remit of the broadcaster.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215051110 Total Pages :40 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (511 download)
Book Synopsis British Broadcasting Commission by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Download or read book British Broadcasting Commission written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Saturday 10 November 2012, the BBC Director General George Entwistle agreed to resign after just 54 days in the job. In order to secure his quick departure, the BBC Trust agreed to a pay-off that included 12 months' salary of £450,000, twice what he was contractually entitled to. The BBC Trust also agreed to give the former Director General 12 months' private medical cover and contribute to the cost of legal fees and public relations advice connected with his departure and his participation in the ongoing inquiries into Newsnight and Sir Jimmy Savile. The Comptroller and Auditor General offered to carry out an immediate and independent audit examination of the package, in time to inform the deliberations of this Committee but the BBC Trust refused to take that offer up. This inhibited Parliament's ability to hold the Trust to account for its use of public money and Entwistle's severance package could only be considered on the basis of information publicly available. Furthermore, since November 2010 the BBC has made severance payments to 10 other senior managers at a total cost of more than £4 million. These payments are excessive and completely out of keeping with public expectations about how their licence fee money is spent. It also emerged that 422 senior BBC managers received private medical cover worth £667,489 as part of their remuneration packages in 2012. The Comptroller and Auditor General has been asked to examine severance payments and benefits for senior managers as part of his future programme of work on the BBC
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the BBC Charter Review Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :0104008237 Total Pages :487 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (4 download)
Book Synopsis Further Issues for BBC Charter Review by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the BBC Charter Review
Download or read book Further Issues for BBC Charter Review written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the BBC Charter Review and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-03-03 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Further issues for BBC charter Review : 2nd report of session 2005-06, Vol. 2: Evidence
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Culture, Media and Sport Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215559654 Total Pages :122 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (596 download)
Book Synopsis BBC licence fee settlement and annual report by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Download or read book BBC licence fee settlement and annual report written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Culture, Media and Sport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Culture Media and Sport Committee says that the main outcomes of the BBC Trust's strategic review do not move the BBC on to the extent required by current circumstances, and that the incoming Chairman will have much to get grips with. The new licence fee agreement was reached "unexpectedly" in October 2010 between the Department for Culture Media and Sport and the BBC, but without any time for wider consultation with viewers or Parliament. The Committee believes the agreement reached is a reasonable one, but the process undermined confidence in both the Government's and the BBC's commitment to transparency and accountability. On the partnership between BBC and S4C, it is unclear how S4C can retain its independence under the new arrangements. It is extraordinary that the Government and the BBC should agree such wide-ranging changes without consultation or giving S4C any notice or say at all. The Committee is particularly concerned that National Audit Office still does not have the promised access to conduct independent assessments of the BBC's value for money. The Committee is also disappointed that banded information on talent salaries is still not in the public domain. The BBC opened itself to predictable ridicule with the decision to hire a "migration manager" who had to commute from the United States to manage the transition to the new Salford site. The report concludes that big questions remain over how radically the BBC needs to reconfigure both content and delivery in the years ahead.
Book Synopsis 25 Need-To-Know Strategy Tools by : Vaughan Evans
Download or read book 25 Need-To-Know Strategy Tools written by Vaughan Evans and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed. Includes 10 handy do’s and don’ts of strategy development Need powerful decision-making tools at your fingertips? Want to get the most out of strategic thinking models like Porter’s Five Forces? Only want what you need to know, rather than reams of theory? With the critical strategy tools required to drive your business forward, this book tells you what you need to know, fast.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Culture, Media, and Sport Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215020949 Total Pages :284 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (29 download)
Book Synopsis A Public BBC by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Culture, Media, and Sport Committee
Download or read book A Public BBC written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Culture, Media, and Sport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating HCP 598 i-x, session 2003-04
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Culture, Media, and Sport Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :0215091108 Total Pages :65 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis HC 398 - BBC Charter Review by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Culture, Media, and Sport Committee
Download or read book HC 398 - BBC Charter Review written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Culture, Media, and Sport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The BBC is an extraordinary national and global institution. Often one of the very few things people outside this country know about Britain is that it is the home of the BBC. The BBC's value lies not only in the organisation itself, but in its accumulated reputation, experience and goodwill, in its public service remit, and in its place at the centre of a vibrant broadcasting industry. It sets a standard in broadcasting quality, impartiality and independence that serves as a benchmark for others. For these reasons the BBC has a vast amount to contribute as an international standard of excellence in public service broadcasting. At a time when many media organisations are reducing their international coverage, relying on a few feeds and becoming more prone to crowd behaviour, there is a huge opportunity for the BBC to consolidate this global position. But the BBC also has a role as a beacon of enlightened values of openness, freedom of thought, toleration and diversity. As the world increasingly divides on ideological and sectarian grounds, it is vital more than ever today to preserve an educated public realm in which civilised debate and the mutually respectful exchange of ideas may flourish. What would it take to create another? It is very hard to imagine how it could be done. Yet this does not mean the BBC is beyond improvement, or secure from technological, financial or commercial challenge. First, its core activities are under serious commercial threat: from traditional competitors, from new online insurgents, from lower cost providers of access to high quality programming, among others. New technologies and ways of accessing programmes are pushing the BBC to consider long term alternatives to the licence fee. Secondly, the BBC is not well served by its often unwieldy bureaucracy, its internal politics, and a culture which has been criticised as arrogant and introspective. And finally, the BBC's Director General has argued that the licence fee is viable for the coming Charter period. But as commercial and technological pressures converge, as the BBC's market share continues to fall and a new generation consumes its media in innumerable new ways, there is the question whether or not the licence fee funding model can be sustained.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215521279 Total Pages :40 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (212 download)
Book Synopsis Preparations for Digital Switchover by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
Download or read book Preparations for Digital Switchover written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department for Culture, Media & Sport and the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform are jointly responsible for digital switchover, the programme to convert over 1,100 tv transmitters to ditigal and switch off analogue signals by 2012. The Departments have passed to the BBC responsibility for funding the public information campaign and delivering the help scheme, and set aside £803 million of licence fee money to pay for these activities. The BBC is accountable to the BBC Trust for the value for money with which it uses the licence fee, not the Departments. Therefore the Departments have no means of holding the BBC to account for this use of licence fee money. To data, take-up of the help scheme has been significantly lower than the Departments expected. If help scheme take-up rates experienced in Copeland, the first area to switch, were replicated across the country, there would be a £250 million surplus in the licence fee settlement. The Departments have not decided how any surplus would be handled and it is felt generally that the Departments have not taken effective action to protection consumer interests.
Book Synopsis British Television Policy by : Bob Franklin
Download or read book British Television Policy written by Bob Franklin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Television Policy: A Reader provides a forum for the significant policy debates which have informed and shaped television broadcasting since the publication in 1986 of the Peacock Committee Report on the financing of the BBC. The Reader presents key documents and critically analyses their impact on the organisation, financial resources, programme content, editorial philosophy and the regulatory environment of television broadcasting. Recognising that policy making is not wholly a prerogative of government, British Television Policy provides readers with access to a wide range of statutory and non-governmental documents which have affected British broadcasting legislation: Acts of Parliament; Private Members' Bills; Select Committee Reports; Official statements by Ministers; Parliamentary inquiries such as the Davies Report; Policy documents prepared by interest groups such as the Campaign for Quality Television and the Voice of the Listener and Viewer; Strategic announcements from the ITC; Statements from the BBC and ITV; Public lectures by media owners and executives such as Rupert Murdoch and Richard Eyre; Commentaries from media academics and media analysts. Beginning with a comprehensive editorial introduction which details television policy since 1945, the Reader is arranged in thematic sections which explore the purpose of television broadcasting, the financing of television, broadcasting policy and quality, regulation, and the relationship of broadcasting and politics. Each section is accompanied by an editor's introduction and commentary and the Reader is supported by a glossary and a guide to further reading.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Culture, Media, and Sport Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215020963 Total Pages :94 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (29 download)
Book Synopsis Public Bbc,First Report of Session by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Culture, Media, and Sport Committee
Download or read book Public Bbc,First Report of Session written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Culture, Media, and Sport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2004 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee's report on the BBC's Charter review focuses on four inter-related issues: i) the scope and remit of the BBC in the context of the growth of digital TV and on-going technological developments in audiovisual communications; ii) its funding mechanism; iii) its governance and regulation; and iv) whether a Charter provides the most appropriate means of establishing the Corporation in a rapidly-changing communications environment. Key aspects considered include the role, definition and scope of public service broadcasting, the growth of multichannel television, the on-going roll-out of broadband networks, and the Government's plans to switch off the analogue television signal. The report makes 38 conclusions and recommendations, including i) the BBC should be placed on a statutory basis by Act of Parliament at the earliest opportunity, with allowance for pre-legislative scrutiny by a joint Committee of both Houses; with a five year Charter to cover the interim period, between the date the current Charter expires at the end of 2006 and the passing of the recommended legislation; and ii) fundamental changes in the governance system of the BBC, with responsibility for corporate governance separated from maintenance and regulation of its independence.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215037640 Total Pages :40 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (376 download)
Book Synopsis The BBC's management of risk by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Download or read book The BBC's management of risk written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Committee of Public Accounts report on "The BBC's management of risk", sets out a number of recommendations on dealing with risk, and what the BBC's Executive Board should implement. Risk comes in different forms, from the risk of damaging the Corporation's reputation as a public service broadcaster to personal risk staff can experience when reporting from dangerous parts of the world. This report follows on from a National Audit Office report of the same title, and is available from the NAO website: http://www.bbcgovernorsarchive.co.uk/docs/reviews/nao_riskmanagement.pdf. Among the recommendations are: that BBC guidance needs a clearer delineation of responsibilities for risk management; that the main themes of risk management are not aligned with corporate objectives; that the BBC should update its assessments of the risks of working in hostile environments, as the abduction of journalist Alan Johnson showed; by failing to comply with its own Broadcasting Code, the BBC was fined by Ofcom over the a live phone-in competition on Blue Peter, and illustrates that some programme makers are ignoring the BBC's own editorial guidelines, exposing the corporation to reputational risk; the BBC has not related its risk to corporate objectives or assigned all risks to named owners; that BBC managers at all levels are not sufficiently engaged in the management of risk; there is still no fully satisfactory regime under which the BBC is accountable to Parliament for the value for money with which it spends licence fee payers money.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the BBC Charter Review Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780104008775 Total Pages :44 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (87 download)
Book Synopsis Final Discussions with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the BBC Charter Review
Download or read book Final Discussions with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the BBC Charter Review and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-06-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee's final report on the BBC Charter Review highlights issues of concern in relation to the Government's White Paper ('A public service for all: the BBC in the digital age', Cm 6763, ISBN 0101676328) published in March 2006. Amongst the issues of concern raised, the Committee recommends that the BBC should be established by statute rather than Royal Charter with greater parliamentary scrutiny of the process for setting the level of the licence fee; and that the National Audit Office should be involved in scrutinising the BBC's bid and have autonomy to undertake other value for money reviews. This final report follows on from two previous Committee reports published in November 2005 on the Government's proposals for the future of the BBC (HLP 50-I, session 2005-06, ISBN 0104007508) and in March 2006 on issues relating to the BBC Charter, including the current bid for the TV licence fee (HLP 128-I, session 2005-06, ISBN 0104008245).
