Image, Bobbie Johnson
With only a month to go until its current Charter expires, some big questions about the BBC’s future remain unanswered. Will anyone foolhardy enough to chair the new unitary Board be found? Does Ofcom know how it is going to begin regulating the BBC? And why is the BBC getting into bed with some of the biggest newspaper publishers in the UK?
What – you hadn’t heard about that one? It is true. The BBC has struck a deal to divert at least £8m of licence fee payer’s money into the pockets of newspaper publishers in every year of this Charter period – £88m in total.
