Interesting Stuff 2009-03-20: Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Trust Approves Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Online Budget
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| 13:41 UK time, Friday, 20 March 2009
The Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Trust has approved the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's budget for 2009/10 including the budget for Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Online. From the Trust's press release:
Following the Trust's review of bbc.co.uk and consideration of the necessary management controls, the Trust has been able to agree an increase in Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Online's budget of £30.7 million over three years, subject to certain conditions set by the Chairman to the Director-General which we are publishing today.
This is significantly less than Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú management originally asked for. The Trust considers that investment at this reduced level is appropriate. It believes that ongoing robust evaluation of the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's impact on online markets will be necessary to ensure that public value is created by the investment.
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Nick Reynolds is editor, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Internet blog
Comment number 1.
At 20th Mar 2009, Russ wrote:Nick - I am looking at the new Radio 4 website at the moment (and will comment on Leigh Aspin's blog accordingly). Initial impressions are extremely good, but the general question did strike me - can the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú really afford to maintain this level of extravagant provision? I do accept that the old Radio 4 site was in need of overhaul, but it 'did the job' in its cheap and cheerful way. My associated concern is about the resource implications for programme teams who will no doubt be expected to produce more information for their respective web pages, and I would hate to think that programme-making budgets are being eaten into because of 'web admin' duties. Does a part of the increase in Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Online's budget of £30.7 million get deployed to station programme teams? How is this resource thing apportioned?
Russ
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Comment number 2.
At 20th Mar 2009, Nick Reynolds wrote:A good question Russ. I'll try and get an answer.
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Comment number 3.
At 22nd Jun 2009, Russ wrote:Hello Nick, long time, no speak. Didya' get an answer?
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At 22nd Jun 2009, Nick Reynolds wrote:I didn't Russ. But I'll try again.
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