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...funding is still OK, said Kroes, as long as it is "necessary to fulfill a task in the public interest." To determine that, Kroes demanded more detail on how all three governments fund their channels. How do the BBC's far-reaching online services stay off the hook? The Beeb quietly dumped its more commercial sites last year, and the British government's restructuring plan for the BBC, published last week, waxed lyrical on "transparency." "It's a judgement call," says Nicholas Francis of competitive market watchers Reckon. "BBC Online seems to fit in with where it's going anyway...
...drinks in Poland; it already distributes there. The cola could well follow. Sounds like the real thing. - By Jan Stojaspal Remaking The News BBC Director General Mark Thompson unveiled one of the biggest overhauls in the broadcaster's history, cutting 2,900 largely administrative staff - around 10% of the Beeb's workforce - as part of an effort to boost investment in programming...
...couldn't revise his line of attack last week, and ended up looking churlish and maladroit. The Tory comeback hit a speed bump. The BBC faced the worst crisis in its 80?year history. Its chairman, Gavyn Davies, resigned the day Hutton issued his brutal criticisms of the Beeb's journalistic practices and governing-board oversight, but offered an apology so tepid that Downing Street sought more. The next day the Director General, Greg Dyke, also resigned, but he too felt angry and denounced Hutton's conclusions, which many commentators were already calling a whitewash. The acting chairman, Richard Ryder...
...archive will allow BBC-owned content--from news to sport to drama--to be downloaded and used for noncommercial purposes. Initially, the Beeb envisages educational uses like schoolchildren downloading documentary footage for their multimedia homework projects. However, though the BBC has offered no launch date or technical details, the creative archive can also be seen as a play by the company to position itself as a major force in global broadband...
...foil large-scale file swapping. "The government's sure to force them to do this," says Peter White of Rethink Research, a Britain-based digital-media-research company. White thinks a global broadband audience could eventually eliminate the BBC's need for British public funding. The Beeb, he says, "is only just beginning to realize how commercially valuable it is." --By Michael Brunton