Delivering Quality First: Proposals
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| 14:00 UK time, Thursday, 6 October 2011
Mark Thompson and other senior managers are today announcing specific proposals to reduce ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ spending by 20% - "Delivering Quality First".
Lord Patten, Chair of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Trust, summed up the overall context. This is what he said about ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Online:
We will stick to the plan that has reduced ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Online's budget by 25 per cent in the past year. We will continue, however, to look to the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ to invest in new technology where it can add to the audience experience – whether through the development of HD, through access to the back catalogue or through internet-connected television in all its forms.
The detailed proposals [PDF] talk of investing in digital public space, and a digital innovation fund of £40pa to help support, amongst other things, putting ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ content across four screens and making the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's back-catalogue available.
The document sums up the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's proposals for red button services as:
- Reduce the number of video streams available on satellite and cable from nine to one to provide a more consistent service across all TV platforms. This would take place towards the end of 2012, after the Olympic Games
- Close the news multiscreen service
- Develop new Internet Protocol Television services for connected TV sets, with access through the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Red Button
Please go to the DQF website to find out more, or to the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Trust consultation to give your opinion.
Ian McDonald is the Content Producer, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Internet Blog
