Comments on: BBC Trust Boosts Web Budget, Cuts TV and Film Money

By: Watching the iPlayer Around The World: BBC, Meet VPN

Watching the iPlayer Around The World: BBC, Meet VPN — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:03:18 +0000

[...] programming is funded by British citizens through the Licence Fee, which is £142.50 a year. Though the BBC Trust increased the budget for online services last year, Web spending accounts for only around five percent of that money. Any bandwidth costs from beyond [...]

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BBC Trust Boosts Web Budget Cuts TV and Film Money | Wood TV Stand — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:51:56 +0000

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By: Neno Brown

Neno Brown — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:31:21 +0000

The BBC is stuck between a rock and a hard place, on the one hand they have great content, larkrise to candelford, little doritt, top gear, eastenders, docs, wildlife etc.. plus a huge archive of content; All of which could be instantly monetised.

On the other hand the BBC is hamstrung by the BBC Trust, who will never allow the BBC to reach new markets as TV license payers would be in uproar, having to pay the TV license fee while overseas viewers watch for free.

The BBC face a perdicament moving forward; bandwith costs are escalating, more and more UK viewers are consuming BBC content on the web, and more and more people are not paying the TV license fee,

The BBC cannot force people to pay the TV license fee if they watch catch-up TV on the IPlayer, so the only way I see the BBC expanding/monetising to the web, is to roll-out a new web BBC division:-

http://informitv.com/articles/2009/01/17/newmediacityukhub

From the link; this new division ties up nicely with the proposed BT CDN offering, using the 21CN 20MB broadband roll-out for 2012, and of course you have the P2P-NEXT initative lurking in the background.

All-in-all the future looks bright for the BBC unlike C4, C5 and ITV (loosing bricks and morter Ad revenues) as the BBC have the advantage of TV license fee revenues; allowing the the broadcaster scope for the transition to the Ad monetised Web TV business model, predicated by the consumption of video online and the role out of super-fast broadband, while the broadcast industry as a whole moves out of flux.