Blogging the Beeb

BBC Future and Funding

I am well behind on noting developments in the BBC's Charter Renewal process:

The BBC Governors published the BBC's value for money report on its HR section in April.

The BBC Governorsd also published Patrick Barwise's report on public opinion on the Licence Fee.

DCMS published the independent review of the BBC Licence Fee Bid/Funding needs.

Mark Thompson's Creative Review of the BBC is published here and the detailed press briefing is here. His Fleming lecture giving more detail is here. Its new media plans are here. There is more on the BBC's Integrated Media Player, the iPlayer, here.

DCMS made appointments to the new BBC Trust from the BBC Governors.

DCMS published the White Paper on the Future of the BBC. The BBC Governors respoonse is set out here. Michael Grade's speech in response is here. Mark Thompson's BBC 2.0 speech is here.

British Film

The BBC is set for a substantial investment in British Film.

Domming Down

The BBC Governors have ordered an inquiry into the language used on the children's TV programme Dick and Dom, according to The Times:

The corporation’s governors have cautioned that slang and poor language employed by the corporation’s stars could create a generation of children unable to master English.

Meanwhile grammar expert and best-selling author Lynne Truss says:

Blaming the BBC for such a decline would be to miss the obvious: that the BBC is reflecting a shift that is occurring elsewhere in the language.

And BBC News has this.