The paper reminds us that in 2007 the BBC thought it was close to its "efficiency frontier". Revealing the DQF package in october DG Thommo said this was "the end of the road" on cuts. Oh, no it isn't.
The NAO report is sprinkled with references to the report on Radio 2/6Music, Radio 1/1Xtra by John Myers. It's an extraordinary endorsement for a crude sort of "I-speak-as-I-find" observational investigation, with no benchmarking on performance and quality. And now DG Thommo has presumably approved News and David Holdsworth hiring Myers for a look at local radio.
Yet, if Myers can find other places to cut that relieve the front end pain, good luck to him. Here's my ten pence worth - stop local radio tying up desk effort on mixed local/national bulletins; a syndicated IRN/Sky national bulletin, topped with mixed headlines, and the local news, is an obvious move. Go back to general reporters with specialisms, rather than correspondents - freeing local editors to respond to their patch, rather than Birtian analysis. Sharing football commentaries is a bad idea, but stronger co-ordination of the huge sport effort that exists in local radio ought to produce new and better preview and analysis programmes that might be shared. A commitment to local live music - folk, jazz, etc - should be maintained, but stations should connect more often to ease the evening costs.
- The Trust commissioned the NAO report, which is, in audit speak, really quite critical of some departments, talking about "a lack of senior management control and insufficient embedding of risk management in two of the three that are currently behind target (Future Media & Technology and Workplace)".
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