Having just read the BBC News website about the Edinburgh TV festival, some guy at SKy told an audience about how the BBC should sell of it's best shows to commercial rivals so as to justify the licence fee.
Isn't that just despirate measure to berate the BBC and also get hold of good BBC programes to make their own schedule less than crap!
I quite agree. The notion suggested was that the "BBC should develop shows which could grow in popularity, then sell them to the highest bidder". It is of course nonsense. Sky have the resources but not, it seems, the pool of talent.
Seems they want to sit back, let somebody else put in all the hard work and then wave the cheque book in the air to acquire the shows. As has been said they've got the resources to make their own programmes yet choose not to or have no talent to do so. They seem happier to fill the schedules with imports, repeats, and all those Uncovered series.
if anything, i think the bbc should be forced to make it's programmes available to other networks. i would much rather all the networks got a share of the bbc's excellent library of programmes than have them spent sitting on the shelf waiting for a late night bbc 2 slot.
Plus the money raised can be ploughed back into original programming and new digital services.
your comments about sky being lazy are invalid. sky has long since been seen as a broadcaster or commissioning broadcaster rather than a production broadcaster. It is not unreasonable for sky to want to open fresh sources of programming for their channels.
And in any case, the bbc being publicly funded corporation, shouldn’t the beeb itself have been making all the technological advancements in digital television? pushing forward interactive? Instead it was left to sky to take the risks.
if anything, i think the bbc should be forced to make it's programmes available to other networks. i would much rather all the networks got a share of the bbc's excellent library of programmes than have them spent sitting on the shelf waiting for a late night bbc 2 slot.
Ahh, but the man from Sky was talking about the BBC's
current
popular output, not the back catalogue. Theres a very big distinction.
