Comments on: Optimise The BBC http://blog.v7n.com/2006/05/31/optimise-the-bbc/ Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:23:47 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Peter Da Vanzo http://blog.v7n.com/2006/05/31/optimise-the-bbc/comment-page-1/#comment-561 Peter Da Vanzo Fri, 02 Jun 2006 01:40:46 +0000 http://blog.v7n.com/2006/05/31/optimise-the-bbc/#comment-561 Also speaking as an expat, I'd like to hear more about the "what" and "how", too. I agree that the BBC sites, especially their news sites, are "worth every penny". An increasingly ethnocentric web, channeled via private media companies, isn't healthy, imho. Also speaking as an expat, I’d like to hear more about the “what” and “how”, too.

I agree that the BBC sites, especially their news sites, are “worth every penny”. An increasingly ethnocentric web, channeled via private media companies, isn’t healthy, imho.

]]> By: DarrenC http://blog.v7n.com/2006/05/31/optimise-the-bbc/comment-page-1/#comment-560 DarrenC Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:39:44 +0000 http://blog.v7n.com/2006/05/31/optimise-the-bbc/#comment-560 Yes, we have to pay for a TV licence, but if that pot of money is going on maintaining and improving the BBC website, then I am all for it - its probably one of the few websites that I visited regular daily. The TV and radio stations are crap but the website is worth every penny in my book. Yes, we have to pay for a TV licence, but if that pot of money is going on maintaining and improving the BBC website, then I am all for it – its probably one of the few websites that I visited regular daily.

The TV and radio stations are crap but the website is worth every penny in my book.

]]> By: rossio http://blog.v7n.com/2006/05/31/optimise-the-bbc/comment-page-1/#comment-554 rossio Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:33:04 +0000 http://blog.v7n.com/2006/05/31/optimise-the-bbc/#comment-554 Speaking as an ex-pat, I would certainly want to know more specifically what the Beeb intend to do, or how they propose they are going to compete with Google or AOL. bbc.co.uk is exceptional in terms of the service it provides at the moment, and so I wonder exactly where they intend to take the site given the extra income generated by a hike in the licence fee. Also, given their tight restriction on having anything even closely resembling a commercial interest or activity I wonder why they are looking to move further down the path with bbc.co.uk. Who knows? But one think is for sure - the demographic in the UK that is going to complain/resist an increase in their licence fee is also largely the demographic that uses bbc.co.uk the least and who will most likely be at the forefront of the Government's mind when they decide whether or not to go back on their licence fee guarantee and sanction the increase. Speaking as an ex-pat, I would certainly want to know more specifically what the Beeb intend to do, or how they propose they are going to compete with Google or AOL.

bbc.co.uk is exceptional in terms of the service it provides at the moment, and so I wonder exactly where they intend to take the site given the extra income generated by a hike in the licence fee.

Also, given their tight restriction on having anything even closely resembling a commercial interest or activity I wonder why they are looking to move further down the path with bbc.co.uk.

Who knows? But one think is for sure – the demographic in the UK that is going to complain/resist an increase in their licence fee is also largely the demographic that uses bbc.co.uk the least and who will most likely be at the forefront of the Government’s mind when they decide whether or not to go back on their licence fee guarantee and sanction the increase.

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