The series came under public attack from senior television figures, and was pulled amid claims of declining editorial standards and controversy over the channel's
public service broadcasting credentials.
Our Beeb is a digital challenge to the BBC and a debate on the nature and future
of public service broadcasting across Britain in all its forms and media.
As public service broadcasting goes, yesterday's 20 - minute interview was pretty uninformative except in the way it showed how horribly confusing the European Union issue has become.
«Mr Cameron's culture team has begun a policy review into
public service broadcasting which is looking at ways to ensure Britain will have a «plurality of public service broadcasters» in the digital era.
The US is the clear outlier amongst developed democraces, with minimal public support, mainly
for public service broadcasting (through federal and state appropriations) and for print publishers (through various forms of tax relief).
@cbeleites: There is also the argument that
public service broadcasting serves the society as a whole and improves democratic processes (by distributing information and acting as a watchdog).
In my live blog of today's historic PMQs I wrote this: «In what has to be one of the lowest points in
public service broadcasting BBC2's Daily Politics coverage stops halfway through the Prime Minister's concluding remarks to cut to Wimbledon.»
Question Time presenter David Dimbleby appeared on the Today programme this morning and instantly became a fan favourite for the post with a passionate defence of
public service broadcasting combined with a savage attack on the management culture at the corporation.
His performance, somewhere between a broken children's toy and
a public service broadcast, was career - destroying.
On one occasion he diplomatically suggests the BBC is «a disgrace to
public service broadcasting», reads Lord Hall a tweet from Paul Mason and adds, for good measure, that «it is now difficult to tell where the network BBC stops and the «No» campaign begins».
In our fast changing, digital age this constitution is intended: to secure in an open tolerant fashion our common resources, both for us and those who follow us: our built and natural environment, our public health service,
our public service broadcasting; to delimit the clout of international corporations; and to help us invent new forms of self - organisation.
In the Commons yesterday Christopher Chope MP introduced a Bill that would ensure revenue from the licence fee would only go to
public service broadcasting.
Therefore,
public service broadcasting can't be funded from taxes.
Public service broadcasting is most obviously broken when we look at ITV.
What is needed for this new age of PSB is a truly independent regulator which covers
the public service broadcasting remits (Charter and licences) of all our PSBs.
«Labour will always be committed to the BBC and the values of
public service broadcasting.
Public service broadcasting as we know it is dying.
Public service broadcasting may be dying but public service content needn't be.
Our public service broadcasting (PSB) is facing a tough time, but it still remains the best in the world.
But Jeremy Hunt, the shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has kept his cards close to his chest so far on broadcasting — apart from some conventional pieties about the importance of
public service broadcasting and the need to keep Channel 4 going through some funding fudge.
Politicians across the board should now be pressing to ensure we get more bang for our buck when it comes to
public service broadcasting.
Ross herself said: «At a time when the future of
public service broadcasting — and therefore Film4's own future — is being debated as never before, it is wonderful to see films that would not exist without Film4's continual support garner global recognition.»