TV Home Forum

Tim Davie Appointed BBC Director General

(June 2020)

This site closed in March 2021 and is now a read-only archive
OM
Omnipresent
Ne1L C posted:
Omnipresent posted:
Tim Davie’s first move is the reduction in size of the Executive Committee:




No Room for radio? Shocked


Radio will be overseen by Charlotte Moore, Chief Content Officer:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/charlotte-moore

Quote:
As Chief Content Officer Charlotte will be the senior leader for BBC content and audiences across all genres and platforms, with the exception of News and Nations and Regions.

The Chief Content Officer’s responsibilities include:

Television commissioning for all BBC network TV channels and BBC iPlayer
Radio commissioning and production for all ten national radio networks and BBC Sounds
Multi-platform commissioning and production for all children’s and education content
BBC Proms and Orchestras
As Chief Content Officer, Charlotte Moore will be the creative lead and set the strategy for BBC TV, Network Radio, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds, across all key genres and platforms. She will lead the Channel and Station Controllers and set an editorial strategy which reflects the diversity of all the BBC’s audiences.
NL
Ne1L C
Sound like this role is akin to a ship's XO.
OM
Omnipresent
Full speech from Tim Davie:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/speeches/2020/tim-davie-intro-speech

No imminent channel closures are planned, but at the same time the BBC won’t launch any new linear services. So BBC3 will not return as a linear broadcast channel.

It’s not the first time an incoming DG has implored staff to be less inward looking and focus on “making it happen”.

Quote:
We will renew our commitment to impartiality
We will focus on unique, high-impact content
We will extract more from online
We will build commercial income
Last edited by Omnipresent on 3 September 2020 12:57pm
RD
RDJ
So that's hopes of the BBC Three linear channel returning to screens dead then.
RD
rdd Founding member
I got the impression any talk of returning BBC Three to TV was entirely a reaction to the runaway success of Normal People and how, with its linear airing being on BBC One rather than BBC Three, it may not have been readily identified as a BBC Three commission or programme. Maybe that’s an oversimplification.
JF
JetixFann450
Except that they never said that they ruled out the idea of using a "current space" for a new offering. I think what they're trying to say is that they're not going to spend money on new capacity in the case of relaunching BBC Three, and if they were going to relaunch it, they would already use a pre-existing service (possibly BBC Four?)
NL
Ne1L C
Omnipresent posted:
Full speech from Tim Davie:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/speeches/2020/tim-davie-intro-speech

No imminent channel closures are planned, but at the same time the BBC won’t launch any new linear services.

Quote:
We will renew our commitment to impartiality
We will focus on unique, high-impact content
We will extract more from online
We will build commercial income


My initial response is a lot of fine words. I'm particularly taken by his shrinking of the committee from 17 to 11. If it means streamlining decisions to get them done faster than all the better.

The proposal to make the BBC less London-centric also sounds positive on paper. I've waxed lyrical about how what I perceive about a bias within England to London And Salford but actions speak louder then words
JO
Jonwo
Charlotte Moore getting promoted to Chief Content Officer does make me think that we'll likely get a new controller of BBC One.
IS
Inspector Sands
After the points I made in this thread the other day I'm glad he agreed with me when he said:

Importantly, it is not simply about left or right
Jeffmister and Jonwo gave kudos
HO
House
Jonwo posted:
Charlotte Moore getting promoted to Chief Content Officer does make me think that we'll likely get a new controller of BBC One.

If her new role oversees all commissioning on TV and radio (aside from news) and they’re looking to simplify the management structure, could it be the traditional controller role is removed entirely?
OM
Omnipresent
House posted:
Jonwo posted:
Charlotte Moore getting promoted to Chief Content Officer does make me think that we'll likely get a new controller of BBC One.

If her new role oversees all commissioning on TV and radio (aside from news) and they’re looking to simplify the management structure, could it be the traditional controller role is removed entirely?


They’ve already done that. And then replaced them with alternative roles.

The controller roles for individual radio stations were abolished and executives like Ben Cooper and Lewis Carnie left the BBC. They then started hiring individual Heads of Station for Radio 1, Radio 2, 1Xtra, 6 Music and Asian Network, reporting to Lorna Clarke, Controller of Pop.
JO
Jonwo
House posted:

If her new role oversees all commissioning on TV and radio (aside from news) and they’re looking to simplify the management structure, could it be the traditional controller role is removed entirely?

They tried to do that with BBC Two and BBC Four back in 2016 with Channel editors replacing the Channel controllers but I believed reversed that decision in 2017.

Newer posts