Delivering Quality First: Proposals
Post categories: 91Èȱ¬ Trust,Ìýaccountability,Ìýstakeholders
| 14:00 UK time, Thursday, 6 October 2011
Mark Thompson and other senior managers are today announcing specific proposals to reduce 91Èȱ¬ spending by 20% - "Delivering Quality First".
Lord Patten, Chair of the 91Èȱ¬ Trust, summed up the overall context. This is what he said about 91Èȱ¬ Online:
We will stick to the plan that has reduced 91Èȱ¬ Online's budget by 25 per cent in the past year. We will continue, however, to look to the 91Èȱ¬ 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 91Èȱ¬ content across four screens and making the 91Èȱ¬'s back-catalogue available.
The document sums up the 91Èȱ¬'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 91Èȱ¬ Red Button
Please go to the DQF website to find out more, or to the 91Èȱ¬ Trust consultation to give your opinion.
Ian McDonald is the Content Producer, 91Èȱ¬ Internet Blog
