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Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215042804 Total Pages :40 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (428 download)
Book Synopsis The BBC's efficiency programme by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Download or read book The BBC's efficiency programme written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BBC's efficiency Programme : Seventy-third report of session 2010-12, report, together with formal minutes, oral and written Evidence
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 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.
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: Committee of Public Accounts Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215559081 Total Pages :48 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (59 download)
Book Synopsis The BBC's management of digital media initiative by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Download or read book The BBC's management of digital media initiative written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the management of the contract with Siemens and the BBC's in-house development of the Digital Media Initiative Programme. The Programme is designed to transform the way in which BBC staff create, use and share video and audio material. It involves the development of new technology to allow staff to manage content efficiently on their desktops, in order to give greater accessibility of digital content for audiences on TV, online and radio. The BBC has made good progress in delivering the programme in-house since it terminated its contract with Siemens. It is now on course to deliver the complete technology by summer 2011. With hindsight, the BBC should not have let the contract for its Digital Media Initiative to Siemens without testing the contractor against other suppliers, especially as there was a high degree of innovation involved. The Programme is no longer expected to deliver the overall net financial benefit of £17.9 million originally anticipated. The BBC approved the Programme on the basis that it would cost £81.7 million and deliver benefits of £99.6 million, but now forecasts costs of £133.6 million and benefits of £95.4 million - a net cost of £38.2 million. The Committee welcomes the Trust's assurance that it would now take a more challenging approach when considering procurements but are concerned with the ease with which the BBC found over £50 million in savings to make up for the losses it suffered through late delivery of the project and its own increased delivery costs. This suggests the need for a more vigilant approach to value for money.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Culture, Media and Sport Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215553218 Total Pages :76 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (532 download)
Book Synopsis BBC annual report 2008-09 by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Download or read book BBC annual report 2008-09 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Culture, Media and Sport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating HC 945-i, session 2008-09
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Treasury Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :0215035615 Total Pages :160 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis The efficiency programme in the Chancellor's departments by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Treasury Committee
Download or read book The efficiency programme in the Chancellor's departments written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Treasury Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume one of this report was published as HCP 483-I, session 2006-07 (ISBN 9780215035332)
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 :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.
Book Synopsis The War Against the BBC by : Patrick Barwise
Download or read book The War Against the BBC written by Patrick Barwise and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a war on against the BBC. It is under threat as never before. And if we lose it, we won't get it back. The BBC is our most important cultural institution, our best-value entertainment provider, and the global face of Britain. It's our most trusted news source in a world of divisive disinformation. But it is facing relentless attacks by powerful commercial and political enemies, including deep funding cuts - much deeper than most people realise - with imminent further cuts threatened. This book busts the myths about the BBC and shows us how we can save it, before it's too late.
Book Synopsis Inside the BBC and CNN by : Lucy Küng-Shankleman
Download or read book Inside the BBC and CNN written by Lucy Küng-Shankleman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the BBC and CNN provides a unique insight into two of the world's best-known media organisations, during a period of great change and new challenges. The BBC and CNN have very different histories, remits and identities, but both must now compete to provide news in a media environment being reshaped by increasing competition, globalisation, digitisation and convergence. In addition they face increasing pressures of criticism focussed on the struggle for ratings and the perceived "dumbing down" of programming. Drawing on intensive research carried out among senior managers in both organisations, Lucy Küng-Shankleman's study explores the beliefs and attitudes that shape management priorities and broadcasting policy. More controversially, it examines how each organisation's distinct cultural beliefs - about broadcasting's fundamental purpose, about the nature of competition, and about the relationship between competition and quality - have laid the foundations for their current and past success, but could now threaten to limit their ability to respond to the unprecedented changes underway in the world's media landscape.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on Communications Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780108459290 Total Pages :108 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (592 download)
Book Synopsis The British film and television industries by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on Communications
Download or read book The British film and television industries written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on Communications and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-01-24 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first report from the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications of the 2009-10 session (HLP 37-I, ISBN 9780108459290) and examines "The British film and television industries - decline or opportunity?". The report looks at how these industries have developed, the challenges they are currently facing and what practical help might be provided to enable them to develop further. The film and television industries make an important contribution to the British economy. They contribute to national income and employment, and make a net contribution to exports, which has the capacity to grow. Despite the competition from abroad, particularly the US, UK-produced content on film and television has a strong international reputation and makes a major contribution to the entertainment and education of British audiences. The publication is divided into 6 chapters and looks in detail at the following areas: Chapter 1: The British film industry; Chapter 2: A better future for British films; Chapter 3: British television; Chapter 4: Promoting British television; Chapter 5: Skills and training. With Chapter 6 setting out recommendations, including, in respect of television: that the Government should urge public service broadcasters to revive their investment in training; encourage the expansion of online video on demand; promote greater production of UK TV content by a tax credit or through the use of the proceeds of spectrum sale and sharing part of the BBC licence fee; expand the role played by BBC Worldwide in distributing UK content overseas. Recommendations in respect of film, include: new legislation specifically targeted at making the recording of a film in a cinema by camcorder a criminal offence; provide more support to smaller films and allowing British films to be partly shot abroad without suffering a financial penalty; encourage more private investment in film production. For Vol. 2, Evidence, see (ISBN 9780108459306).
Book Synopsis Virtue and Economy by : Andrius Bielskis
Download or read book Virtue and Economy written by Andrius Bielskis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in Aristotelianism and in virtue ethics has been growing for half a century but as yet the strengths of the study of Aristotelian ethics in politics have not been matched in economics. This ground-breaking text fills that gap. Challenging the premises of neoclassical economic theory, the contributors take issue with neoclassicism’s foundational separation of values from facts, with its treatment of preferences as given, and with its consequent refusal to reason about final ends. The contrary presupposition of this collection is that ethical reasoning about human ends is essential for any sustainable economy, and that reasoning about economic goods should therefore be informed by reasoning about what is humanly and commonly good. Contributions critically engage with aspects of corporate capitalism, managerial power and neoliberal economic policy, and reflect on the recent financial crisis from the point of view of Aristotelian virtue ethics. Containing a new chapter by Alasdair MacIntyre, and deploying his arguments and conceptual scheme throughout, the book critically analyses the theoretical presuppositions and institutional reality of modern capitalism.
Book Synopsis This Is the BBC by : Simon J. Potter
Download or read book This Is the BBC written by Simon J. Potter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the BBC represent the voice of Britain? Historian Simon J. Potter explores the hundred year history of the British Broadcasting Corporation, illuminating the significant impact that the BBC has had on the social and cultural history of Britain, and on how Britain communicates with the wider world.
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
Book Synopsis Radio Fun and the BBC Variety Department, 1922—67 by : Martin Dibbs
Download or read book Radio Fun and the BBC Variety Department, 1922—67 written by Martin Dibbs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a narrative history of the BBC Radio Variety Department exploring, along chronological lines, the workings of, tensions within and the impact of BBC policies on the programme-making department which generated the organisation’s largest audiences. It provides an insight into key events, personalities, programmes, internal politics and trends in popular entertainment, censorship and anti-American policy as they individually or collectively affected the Department. Martin Dibbs examines how the Department's programmes became markers in the daily and weekly lives of millions of listeners, and helped shape the nation's listening habits when radio was the dominant source of domestic entertainment. The book explores events and topics which, while not directly forming part of the Variety Department’s history, nevertheless intersected with or had an impact on it. Such topics include the BBC’s attitude to jazz and rock and roll, the arrival of television with its impact on radio, the pirate radio stations, and the Popular Music and Gramophone Departments, both of whom worked closely with the Variety Department.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Culture, Media and Sport Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215529589 Total Pages :260 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (295 download)
Book Synopsis BBC Commercial Operations by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Download or read book BBC Commercial Operations written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Culture, Media and Sport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report investigates: the governance of the BBC's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide; the activities of BBC Worldwide, including programme sales, production, magazines and websites; BBC Worldwide's acquisition of Lonely Planet; and the possible partnership between BBC Worldwide and Channel 4. There are major benefits from the BBC undertaking commercial activities: the profits generated by the exploitation of the BBC's intellectual property can be reinvested in the BBC's public services, to the benefit of licence fee payers. But the manner in which some of the BBC's commercial revenue is generated, and the governance arrangements within which the BBC Worldwide operates, causes increasing concern. Worldwide has proved successful in recent years in exploiting new commercial opportunities, made possible by a loosening of the rules that govern the limits to its operations. However, there a balance to be drawn between Worldwide generating a return for the BBC, and limiting Worldwide's operations in order to ensure it upholds the BBC's reputation and does not damage its commercial competitors. Worldwide's minority stakes in overseas production companies, its controversial acquisition of Lonely Planet, and its growing portfolio of magazines, suggest that the balance has been tipped too far in favour of Worldwide's unrestricted expansion, jeopardising the reputation of the BBC and having an adverse impact on its commercial competitors. It is in the interests of the UK's creative economy as a whole that BBC Worldwide's activities are reined back. The BBC Trust should reinstate the rule that all BBC commercial activity must have a clear link with core BBC programming.
