On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 14:28, Gavin Johnson <gavin.john...@bbc.co.uk> wrote:
> The bit that worries me is .. "a pledge not ever to produce services at a > 'more local' level than is currently the case". > > because > > (a) 'not ever' seems a bit greedy, particularly as > (b) I can't see there has been much interest in local by commercial media this goes back to the old 'will a commercial replacement fill the gap?' argument, and I did allude to it to an extent in that post: my guess is 'no, it won't', and I don't think much of that's the BBC's fault, really. the marketplace is changing, and the commercial environment is also changing. localised content is a very different game to ten - or even five - years ago. given that, I'd err more towards the BBC providing such services so that *somebody* will, even if that's under a relatively tight remit so that feature-creep doesn't have a negative effect upon commercial services in related areas. M. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
