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The BBC Today The BBC Today
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The Future The Future
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The Digital Age The Digital Age
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The BBC in the Digital Age The BBC in the Digital Age
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The Financial Challenge for the BBC The Financial Challenge for the BBC
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Preparing for the Digital Age Preparing for the Digital Age
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The Need for a Licence Fee Increase The Need for a Licence Fee Increase
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Maintaining the BBC's Role Maintaining the BBC's Role
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A Glorious Future: Quality Broadcasting in the Digital Age: The James MacTaggart Lecture 1996
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Published:May 2005
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Abstract
In this lecture, the author, former director general of the BBC, outlines his vision for the BBC in the digital age. He begins by listing the BBC's major achievements and concludes with a plea for an increase in the licence fee. He argues that the BBC's role has been to ‘delight, educate and inform’ and, by so doing, to act as ‘the touchstone of quality in British broadcasting’. He summarises the BBC's considerable achievements but cites the dangers confronting the BBC which must be overcome by government and regulators. First, the digital age will be dominated by the key players who own and control the vital gateway into the home (the ‘set-top box’) which carries not only television signals but also potentially unlimited economic and financial exchanges. The struggle to control this gateway will constitute ‘one of the great business battles shaping the twenty-first century’. Second, the ready access to a global system of television programming will encourage a decline in programme standards and an Americanised world culture.
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