New BBC chief told: make it better with less money

telegraph.co.uk (11 months and 16 days ago)

Jul 5, 2012

New BBC chief told: make it better with less money

Ex-Newsnight editor to take on austerity brief as director-general full story

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Won't someone think of the children? Netflix fires barb at Beeb over licensing

Netflix has criticised the BBC for refusing to allow the streaming giant to license popular children's shows for up to five years after they air. CEO Ted Sarandos said the company has been forced to find US-made alternatives rather than supply the nation's youth with homegrown programming. The streaming chief said Auntie's stubbornness is restricting the popularity of its...

techradar.com (20 days ago)

BBC Digital Media Initiative project doomed to failure, Lord Patten was told

BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten was warned a year ago that the Digital Media Initiative technology project, recently scrapped after costing nearly £100m of licence fee money, was doomed to failure. Bill Garrett, who worked as head of technology in the BBC's production arm, told the BBC Trust in May 2012 that he had "serious concerns" about how much money was being spent on...

guardian.co.uk (14 days ago)

Netflix boss: BBC is holding back UK children's shows

Ted Sarandos, Netflix's content chief, has accused the BBC of stifling the potential of homegrown children's shows by holding them back from the US video-on-demand company's UK streaming service for up to five years. Sarandos said the restrictive policy of BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm, towards licensing kids' shows to VOD services such as Netflix in the UK...

guardian.co.uk (20 days ago)

Government to act on BBC screen violence in hits such as The Fall and Ripper Street

THE BBC has been told by the Government it must make it harder for children to watch disturbing “murder porn” on their computers.

dailyexpress.co.uk (4 days ago)

The citadel of profligacy... or how the BBC flushed another £200m of YOUR money down the drain

The brand spanking new BBC HQ in the West End, New Broadcasting House, was £55m over budget and is just one example of the Corporation's failure to get value for money.

dailymail.co.uk (12 days ago)

Whistleblower told Patten BBC digital project was doomed

A former BBC technical expert warned the chairman of the BBC Trust a year ago that there were problems with its...

thetimes.co.uk (15 days ago)

Hot sausage ban at the BBC: Workers told they must not pick up heated food or make their own toast in case they burn...

Workers have complained after the BBC Club took over running the canteen from another provider at the Media Centre in White City in London, last week.

dailymail.co.uk (2 months and 11 days ago)

When will the BBC stop wasting our money?

The BBC revealed today it has wasted nearly £100m on a bungled digital project. Its executives firehose money down the drain but no-one takes responsibility, writes Steve Barclay MP.

telegraph.co.uk (26 days ago)

Undercover BBC Reporters Join Student Trip To North Korea

* BBC reporter posed as a PhD student to make film * London university says it put students at risk (Adds comment from journalist, BBC head of news) By Michael Holden LONDON, April 14 (Reuters) - A leading British university criticised the BBC on Sunday for arranging an academic trip to North Korea to make an undercover documentary, saying it had put students who were...

huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 7 days ago)

'Working mothers cannot focus on jobs and have no place in top roles': BBC fat cat's claim after employee asked for...

Former chief executive of BBC Studios and Post Production Mark Thomas allegedly said women with children 'should not hold senior management positions', Watford Employment Tribunal was told.

dailymail.co.uk (3 months and 25 days ago)

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