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.

Middle East coverage

The BBC Governors yesterday published the review of BBC coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The BBC management response is here.

And the papers

The Guardian says OFCOM will be able to assess the BBC's market impact. Greg Dyke comments on the proposals on governance in particular.

Blogs on White Paper

The bloggers are out in force in advance of the BBC White Paper publication.

Here's Stephen Pollard.

And Mediawatchwatch.

And Laban at Biased-BBC.

OFCOMwatch had this interview with Select Committee Chair John Whittingdale last week.

Lords' Committee reports

The House of Lords' Committee on the BBC has reported. Here's the Guardian, and here's Ofcomwatch.

The issue making the headlines is the call for greater Parliamentary scrutiny over the setting of the licence fee.

Isaacs on his BBC days

The Indie carries an interesting interview with Jeremy Isaacs by Ray Snoddy. Isaacs has used the Freedom of Information Act to dig out his own BBC files....

New NAO Probe

The NAO is now likely to begin a probe into the cost of Broadcasting House's revamp, following its previous report.

Governors' papers on Dyke

The Guardian is reporting that the BBC Governors' discussions leading to Greg Dyke's sacking will remain closed for years to come.

PAC Slams BBC Overspend

The Times is reporting that the Public Accounts Committee will today attack a BBC overspend on its White City development.

Government responds to Lords

The Government has published its response to the first of the Lords Select Committee reports on the future of the BBC. MediaGuardian covers the response of Lord Fowler, Chair of the Committee.