Sunday, September 04, 2005

Making news accessible

The BBC plans to make all television and radio programming available for up to a week after it airs:
"I accept the premise that if the BBC remains nothing more than a traditional TV and radio broadcaster then we probably won't deserve or get licence-fee funding beyond 2016," Mr. Thompson (the BBC's Director General) said at Edinburgh International Television Festival. "That is very definitely not our plan."

I've mentioned before the value in trying to make current-affairs programming more accessible for public scrutiny. BBC is already ahead of its Canadian counterpart in making transcripts available, and it looks to be taking the lead on further accessibility. Kudos to the BBC; it's about time for Canada's networks to start planning for similar policies.

No comments:

Post a Comment