44 min
Episode 8: The BBC should have been Netflix by now. A Decade Apart: Technology & Politics Podcast
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In this episode we talk about the recent salary figures released by the BBC, whether the figures tell the full story about the diversity challenges in the organisation and how thinking of the media game less as media and more as technology challenge will see them competing against the likes of Netflix, Amazon and the new players in the online media entertainment market.
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BBC - Other key relationships - BBC Trust — We work with licence fee payers and with a wide range of institutions to help us to get the best out of the BBC.BBC - GOV.UK — The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is a British public service broadcaster. Its main responsibility is to provide impartial public service broadcasting in the UK, Channel Islands and Isle of Man.Mediatel: Newsline: Premier League rights: the path is being paved for Amazon — It is now only a matter of time before the likes of Amazon and Facebook start turning up with their giant chequebooks to compete for the rights to the world's top sportsWhy the BBC will struggle to make iPlayer as good as Netflix | Media | The Guardian — Netflix’s research and development spending in 2015 was $650.8m (£530m), more than five times the £105m the BBC spent on development and its research department in 2015/2016.BBC Annual Report and Accounts 2016/17Royal charter - WikipediaCut the gender pay gap by increasing parental leave for fathers, MPs say | The IndependentGender pay gap - European Commission
In this episode we talk about the recent salary figures released by the BBC, whether the figures tell the full story about the diversity challenges in the organisation and how thinking of the media game less as media and more as technology challenge will see them competing against the likes of Netflix, Amazon and the new players in the online media entertainment market.
Links:
BBC - Other key relationships - BBC Trust — We work with licence fee payers and with a wide range of institutions to help us to get the best out of the BBC.BBC - GOV.UK — The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is a British public service broadcaster. Its main responsibility is to provide impartial public service broadcasting in the UK, Channel Islands and Isle of Man.Mediatel: Newsline: Premier League rights: the path is being paved for Amazon — It is now only a matter of time before the likes of Amazon and Facebook start turning up with their giant chequebooks to compete for the rights to the world's top sportsWhy the BBC will struggle to make iPlayer as good as Netflix | Media | The Guardian — Netflix’s research and development spending in 2015 was $650.8m (£530m), more than five times the £105m the BBC spent on development and its research department in 2015/2016.BBC Annual Report and Accounts 2016/17Royal charter - WikipediaCut the gender pay gap by increasing parental leave for fathers, MPs say | The IndependentGender pay gap - European Commission
44 min