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...Mark Byford, the BBC's deputy director general and the Corporation's head of journalism, says there's a noticeable "falling away" of large swathes of TV viewers who are "under 35 and especially under 25." The BBC derives 78.5% of its $8.5 billion income from an annual license fee of $275 payable by any household equipped to receive TV; in return, it's obliged to cater to all ages and socio-economic groups. "In a world of fragmentation, a world of more choice, of a revolution in how people are accessing content, one of our big, big challenges...
...tried to keep abreast of convulsive changes in technology and viewing habits. It funded these adventures with cash from license payers. It was already beginning to slim down again when, in 2006, the government agreed to a lower-than-inflation increase to the cost of the license fee over the next six years, leaving the broadcaster with a $4 billion shortfall. Cutting jobs and selling property will keep the Beeb afloat for now, but underpinning today's turbulence is a deeper question that even its own managers are asking - in this brave new digital world, just what is the point...
...Humphrys and reporter Andrew Gilligan, that a dossier making the case for the Iraq war had been "sexed up." This led to a judicial inquiry after the source for Gilligan's story, government scientist David Kelly, committed suicide. Strained relations with the government probably did not directly affect license-fee negotiations, but add to the sense that the once-beloved Auntie Beeb has become the relative nobody wants to sit next to at family events. She's unlikely to find a warmer reception from a Conservative government: Tories and Euro-skeptics regularly accuse the BBC of a pro-Europe bias...
...usually gets eight or nine $50,000 checks a year from the administration, paid for by the optional $75 Undergraduate Council fee on student termbills. That cash stopped flowing when the UC refused to comply with an administration request that it end its program funding dorm room parties...
...students passed (by an 82-percent margin) a referendum that called for the addition of an optional wind energy fee to their termbills. Administrators may have swiftly vetoed the initiative, but it ultimately resulted in the creation of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)-backed Green Crimson Fund to educate students and bring $10,000 worth of renewable energy to campus. Students voted green again in 2006, demanding FAS adopt emissions reduction targets through another College-wide referendum. Even more widely supported than the wind referendum, this one garnered a “yes” from 88 percent...