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Time for the BBC to be brave, bold and courageous – developing a manifesto for change

“My aim is to take the debate about the BBC beyond the need for platform prominence and to address how it can add value to British life and British interests overseas in the twenty-first century.”

By Mark Oliver
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Screenshot: Opening to Tony Hall's address to the Royal Television Society, September 20, 2018. YouTube.

The BBC as a broadcasting organisation will be 100 years old in 2022. Whether it can survive in its current form much into its second century is a vital matter of national interest. As Tony Hall, the current Director-General made clear in a recent speech to the Royal Television Society:

“The fundamentals of our business have been changing so rapidly and the long-term consequences are so profound that, for all the accolades we might get for today’s programmes or tomorrow’s schedules, that’s not what we will all be remembered for. What we will be judged on is how well we understood the Big Shift (from linear broadcast, to non linear online TV). And how well we responded to it.”

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