BBC Needs To Become an Video Aggregator Online

So argues Emily Bell in the Guardian, focusing on BBC’s recent trials with its online archives in UK…”In the world of new, more open business models, should the BBC not be using this to repeat, if they wish, shows from ALL terrestrial broadcasters – or at least those with a public service remit? And if not, why not? The alternative is for the TV industry, which has spectacularly underinvested in new media, to spend money on developing software rather than programmes.”

“In the old world the idea of the BBC “hosting” services from Channel 4 and ITV would seem ludicrously uncompetitive; but we now know from a raft of learned policy-makers that these services are increasingly unable to compete with the BBC and need some of its wealth redistributing in their direction.”

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