Delivering Quality First: Proposals
Post categories: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Trust,Ìýaccountability,Ìýstakeholders
| 14:00 UK time, Thursday, 6 October 2011
Mark Thompson and other senior managers are today announcing specific proposals to reduce ´óÏó´«Ã½ spending by 20% - "Delivering Quality First".
Lord Patten, Chair of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Trust, summed up the overall context. This is what he said about ´óÏó´«Ã½ Online:
We will stick to the plan that has reduced ´óÏó´«Ã½ Online's budget by 25 per cent in the past year. We will continue, however, to look to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ 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 ´óÏó´«Ã½ content across four screens and making the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s back-catalogue available.
The document sums up the ´óÏó´«Ã½'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 ´óÏó´«Ã½ Red Button
Please go to the DQF website to find out more, or to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Trust consultation to give your opinion.
Ian McDonald is the Content Producer, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Internet Blog
