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Date: 03 March 2010 12:25:17
The reply I've gotten back from the BBC is:
"Thanks for your e-mail about the strategic review of the BBC's services.
Last summer the BBC Trust, which is the BBC's governing body, challenged the BBC Management to develop a new strategy to meet the opportunities and threats of the rapidly changing media landscape. The BBC Management have now presented their proposals to the BBC Trust. You can read them in full at www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc.
Audiences admire and value the BBC's services and the new strategy has proposed ways of focusing and concentrating their licence fee investment on services which are distinctive and can best fulfil the BBC's public purposes. This is both to meet the expectations of licence-payers and to leave opportunities for commercial media providers. At the core of the strategy is a renewed commitment to provide the British public with programmes and services of the highest quality.
The BBC Trust is now conducting a 12 week public consultation on these proposals which closes on 25 May. To take part in this consultation you can either:
- submit a questionnaire online by visiting the BBC Trust's website at www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust
- or request a written questionnaire which you can return by post. Please write to Strategy Review Consultation, BBC Trust, 180 Great Portland Street, London W1W, 5QZ (no sae required).
Thank you for contacting us about this review. We cannot respond further since these are strategic proposals and now the subject of a public consultation before decisions are taken by the BBC Trust. We hope you will contribute to the public consultation by 25 May.
Yours sincerely
BBC Complaints"
This takes you to the appropriate page to get more info on the review and submit your contribution to the consultation. Note, if this were "religious" broadcasting they were threatening there would be huge engagement by "the faithful". This, though, is equally important. As Christians we are called to encourage people to use the gifts God has given them, and to ensure minority groups are not marginalised and oppressed. These proposals are effectively seeking to reduce the commitment of the BBC to these things, which public service broadcasting must be committed to and called to account on in ways the commercial sector isn't.