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Tony Hall Resigns
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Originally posted by teamsaint View PostFootball is the most popular spectator sport, and one of the most popular participation sports. I can't see the problem with the BBC making a decent effort to reflect this as budget sensibly allows. there is Hardly any UK football elsewhere on free channels.
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostAs someone barely interested in football (although an occasional viewer of rugby matches), and by no means conversant with the market for televised football, I am unconvinced that it is appropriate for the BBC, funded as it is, to bid against commercial giants like Sky for the tv rights. And the venal football clubs have to share some blame for what has happened.
Surely the issue here is the interests of the audience. Football is enormously popular, and many licence fee payers can't or won't pay for subscription. In that case I don't see why their interests shouldn't be catered to , to a reasonable extent.
I agree that the clubs are partly to blame for the situation, but I'm not sure that is relevant. We shouldn't be punishing the audience because of the skewed distribution of income to a few at the top, or detail within other funding agreements. Classical music , for one, might not come out too well if they did .I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by Andy Freude View PostThat is the popularist argument for broadening the content scope of Radio 3. None of the other stations are doing it, or would do it, so Radio 3 must provide it because that audience pays its licence fee too !!
BBC 4 is going the same way as BBC 2: once the arts and culture service, now used for the overspill of popular entertainment. And bit by bit the popular entertainment squeezes out the arts and culture. And what's left of arts and culture descends into popular entertainment anyway.
150 hours a year of new arts and music programmes each year.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Andy Freude
Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
"1. Remit BBC Four’s primary role is to reflect a range of UK and international arts, music and culture. It should provide an ambitious range of innovative, high quality programming that is intellectually and culturally enriching, taking an expert and in-depth approach to a wide range of subjects. " The rest of the hours in the year are just filled with repeats?
I suppose they may feel that by the time they've filled 150 hours with new arts and music programmes, they need to cast around for other stuff to fill the rest of the hours. But referring back to what the other poster said, it's hard to see how football could be included appropriately in BBC 4's remit, beyond an occasional broadcast of an especially important match when transmitting on another channel isn't possible for some reason.
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Originally posted by Andy Freude View PostIt's hard to see how that fits with:
"1. Remit BBC Four’s primary role is to reflect a range of UK and international arts, music and culture. It should provide an ambitious range of innovative, high quality programming that is intellectually and culturally enriching, taking an expert and in-depth approach to a wide range of subjects. " The rest of the hours in the year are just filled with repeats?
I suppose they may feel that by the time they've filled 150 hours with new arts and music programmes, they need to cast around for other stuff to fill the rest of the hours. But referring back to what the other poster said, it's hard to see how football could be included appropriately in BBC 4's remit, beyond an occasional broadcast of an especially important match when transmitting on another channel isn't possible for some reason.
Isn't this why football turns up on BBC 4 ? I imagine it is just occasional overspill.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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I don't think it has been mentioned that the timing of Tony Hall's resignation ensures that the present Chairman of the BBC gets to lead the appointment process for his successor.
A date of February is cited as being the end of the Chairman's term, not sure how that gives enough time, but perhaps that is the start of the recruitment process (by the government) for the successor. In any event the papers are saying it ensures a government patsy won't be in post in time for those running the process of appointing the new DG to be hitched within the orbit of the evil emperor (otherwise known as Mr Johnson's principal Downing Street political advisor).
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Andy Freude
Originally posted by Cockney Sparrow View Postthe timing of Tony Hall's resignation ensures that the present Chairman of the BBC gets to lead the appointment process for his successor.
(The Chairman, when asked who won, said he didn't know - but 'probably Mozart')
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Originally posted by Andy Freude View PostIt's hard to see how that fits with:
"1. Remit BBC Four’s primary role is to reflect a range of UK and international arts, music and culture. It should provide an ambitious range of innovative, high quality programming that is intellectually and culturally enriching, taking an expert and in-depth approach to a wide range of subjects. " The rest of the hours in the year are just filled with repeats?
I suppose they may feel that by the time they've filled 150 hours with new arts and music programmes, they need to cast around for other stuff to fill the rest of the hours. But referring back to what the other poster said, it's hard to see how football could be included appropriately in BBC 4's remit, beyond an occasional broadcast of an especially important match when transmitting on another channel isn't possible for some reason.
The best thing to be said about woman's football was on Not The Nine O'Clock News way back in the good old days
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