In one of the biggest continuing job creation schemes in UK media, The Witchfinders of Ofcom have taken 174 pages to express their plans for 'Modernising the BBC's Operating Licence'. They've been clearly disappointed by the BBC's Annual Plan, now just an agglomeration of early press releases, and demand that it in future contains cast-iron promises on hours of programming in various genres, which the Bean Counters of Riverside House will continue to monitor and review; most traditional quotas are retained, but can in future be counted annually. This means the BBC can put on the odd Passion Play etc when religious targets are in danger of being missed.
Ofcom have lain down without a murmur in front of the cuts; they've apparently been re-assured by a slogan for the new-World-News-dominated News Channel "Proudly British, Uniquely Global". Tosh. On local radio regional programmes, in one case linking Dorset with Norfolk, they propose 'enhanced monitoring and oversight'.
Ofcom want news and current affairs programme to be more 'discoverable' on iPlayer and BBC Sounds. Documentaries are currently on the 'eighth rail' of shows offered to me on iPlayer
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