This year has shone a light on a venture, a 100 years old, that has delivered outstanding shareholder returns: the BBC. In short, we have reached a defining decade for the future of this incredible sector and this wonderful country.īut first, a quick look back. To create a bigger creative sector supported by strong public service media and a thriving BBC. To invest capital and set policy, deliberately, not simply live on hope and good intent. This will require the BBC, regulators, politicians – all of us – to work together and make clear decisions. Today I want to set out some of the choices that we need to make, and make the case for ambition. One of my favourite quotes of Lord Reith is “the BBC will never broadcast anything controversial, and has no plans to do so.” If only.īut beyond the day-to-day, we urgently need to spend more time agreeing what we want to create that best serves our audiences, the economy and society. And, because people care, we keep busy on a joyous treadmill of flare-ups and debates.
In BBC terms, we understandably fret about domestic issues, political spats and latest headlines. Too much of this debate is painfully “small”. A case for growth, and the choices, as the UK, to own it. Or are we proactively going to take the steps to ensure that we tell our own stories, and remain the envy of the world? About whether we want to leave a legacy of a thriving, world leading UK media market or accept, on our watch, a slow decline.Īre we simply going to drift to the point where the emergence of vast US and Chinese players marginalise us, while we put on a very British brave face as they do so? Resigned to the fact that our culture and creative economy will inevitably be shaped by polarised platforms and overseas content. Of growth.Ĭhoices that concern not just the role of the BBC, but something bigger. Choices for us all.Ĭhoices that have profound consequences for our society its economic success, its cultural life, its democratic health. Today, 100 years and 23 days after the first BBC broadcast, I want to talk about choices. Most of the speech was around television and news programming, distribution and production, but concerned the BBC as a whole. Tik Tok is now bigger than the BBC in video for 16-24s in the UK.” Today it’s around 50%, and radical changes are happening across all ages.
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Five years ago broadcast TV reached nearly 80% of young adults a week.
The Director-General went on to say: “Industry analysts predict that we have probably seen the last year in the UK when broadcasters make up the majority of video viewing. The BBC would be the brand with content available in one place. Tim added that the BBC needs to move to an internet future with greater urgency, and operate with fewer brands. In this world relevance, like trust, has to be earned.” “The internet has stripped away the historical distribution advantage of having half of the TV channels or FM frequencies. “There’s still a lot of live linear viewing but it is all been delivered online. In a landmark speech about a digital future, he said: “Imagine a world that is internet only, where broadcast TV and radio are being switched off and choice is infinite. Tim Davie, speaking at the Royal Television Society on Wednesday, suggested the future of the BBC is IP based with broadcast radio and TV being switched off.
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