Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Nibbles

Some odds and end from the BBC's appearance at the DDCMS Select Committee yesterday...

2.3m million 16-34s watched the first episode of Blue Planet II - more than the total overnight audience for any single edition of Love Island 2.

Radio 1 claims to be the most popular radio station on YouTube.

The BBC's new 'Next Generation Committee' met for the first time last week. It is made of up 12 members of staff under 30, selected from 240 applicants, and is there to review BBC plans from a 'youth' perspective. They've been considering a proposed new version of the BBC iPlayer Radio, due for launch next year; aspects of BBC workplace culture; and the generality of schedules.

"Young adults" are spending an average of 9 hours a week with the BBC.

There are 10 million active 'sign-in users' of BBC online services. The BBC estimates that the on-screen reminder that you need a licence to watch programmes online has produced £12m in extra licence fees. There's a review underway to produce a new target for licence fee collection - currently the ambition is to keep evasion down to 4%.

The BBC is thinking about viewers might access, and perhaps pay for, old programmes through the iPlayer - shows that currently make money by being repeated on UKTV channels.

The BBC is asking government to consider putting funds directly into BBC World News, the tv channel currently funded by ads, in order to improve editorial content, and remove it from paywalls in Europe and sub-Saharan Africa.

Auntie is not ready to bring forward proposals on free licence-fees for the over-75s - the BBC has to bear the cost from June 2020.

The BBC issued a reminder to staff about how to complain about bullying and harassment in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein case. There are currently 25 'live' cases; Anne Bulford said this is a 'spike'.

Committee chair Damian Collins invited any commercial radio presenters on salaries above £150k pa to write in; he would keep their names anonymous.

Lord Hall said there was no annnouncement to be made yet about the reported Sarah Montague/Martha Kearney job swap. (Wouldn't it be wonderful if Lady Brooke had bounced News management into it ?)


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