Online survey

It feels like the BBC Trust's online survey is staggering under the weight today - so here are the 9 key questions offered, to enable thinking as you wait for the pages to load. (Enter by May 25)

1. The BBC's strategic principles: Do you think these are the right principles ? Should the BBC have any other strategic principles ?
2. Proposed principle: Putting Quality First. Which BBC output do you think could be higher quality ?
3. Offering you something special: Which areas should the BBC make more distinctive from other broadcasters and media ?
4. The five editorial priorities: Do these priorities fit with your expectations of BBC TV, radio and online services ?
5. Proposed principle: Doing fewer things and doing them better

The Director-General has proposed a number of areas where the BBC could reduce or stop activities altogether. The suggestions are to:

• Close Radio 6 Music and focusing the BBC’s pop music output on Radio 1 and Radio 2
• Close Asian Network as a national service and aiming to serve Asian audiences better in other ways on other BBC services
• Change BBC local radio stations, by investing more in breakfast, morning and drivetime shows, but share content across local stations at other times of the day
• Close the BBC’s teen zone, BBC Switch
• Close the teenage learning offer Blast!
• Make the BBC’s website smaller, with fewer sections. (We do not yet have the details of what will be cut)

We can assure you that decisions have not yet been taken on any of these areas and that we will consider each area very carefully before doing so. We welcome your views on these areas

6: Proposed principle: Guaranteeing access to BBC services
If you have particular views on how you expect BBC services to be available to you, please let us know
7: The BBC archive: Please tell us if you have views on this area
8: Proposed principle: Making the licence fee work harder
If you are concerned about the BBC’s value for money, please tell us why
9: Proposed principle: Setting new boundaries for the BBC

The Director-General has set out a list of proposed limits to BBC activity. These are:

• Reducing the BBC offer in pop music radio by closing 6 Music
• Closing niche services for teenagers: BBC Switch and Blast!
• Reducing BBC expenditure on programmes bought from abroad - for example, American films and dramas
• Limiting BBC expenditure on sports rights
• Not offering any more localised services than the BBC already does – for example, new services for individual towns or cities
• Making the BBC website more focussed on particular areas.

The Trust has not taken decisions in any of these areas and we will consider each one very carefully before doing so. Do you think that the BBC should limit its activities in these areas ? Should any other areas be on this list ?