This week, BBC Director General Tony Hall laid out his vision for the future. A transcript of his speech in available here.
In a clarion call to modernise, Lord Hall outlines a bold era of innovation and opportunities to deliver BBC archive and new programmes online, via enhanced iPlayer and new conduits: BBC Store, Playlister and Open Minds, sometimes in advance of traditional broadcast. Some content will be free and some charged for, and the aim is to encourage self-selection and create a perception of 'My BBC' rather than 'The BBC'.
Reception has been mixed, with detractors claiming the BBC is kow towing to the youth market and some doubting that licence-payers will agree to subsidise more online delivery when 17 per cent of homes cannot access it.
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