Word: bbc
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...past few months, the BBC has itself resembled a superannuated soap, the long-term future of the 85-year-old institution called into question as it lurches from embarrassing revelations about editorial lapses to high-level resignations, job cuts and threatened strikes. Management has apologized for such breaches of trust as falsifying the results of a public vote to name a cat on the children's show Blue Peter (producers rejected the winning entry "Cookie" in favor of "Socks") and showing a trailer for the documentary A Year with the Queen with scenes shown out of sequence to suggest (deceptively...
...British Invasion: The major U.S. networks may look more like BBC America as content from abroad fills the void. The U.K. version of The Office, with Ricky Gervais, is an obvious substitute for Steve Carell's NBC version. And Footballers' Wives would do for ABC's Desperate Housewives in a pinch...
...BBC receives public subsidy from viewers and Thompson said it could not fund the change to digital, anticipated to cost $5.7 billion, on public funding alone. Earlier this year the British government forced the BBC to accept less money in viewer fees than the BBC asked...
...BBC now faces the prospect of strike action amid claims by the broadcasting union BECTU and the National Union of Journalists that the overhaul will threaten the quality of public broadcasting in Britain. A move to outsource 6,000 jobs in 2005 was met with a one-day stoppage that blacked out several BBC stations...
...executive chairman, Michael Grade, a former chairman of the BBC, said: "I've never been involved in anything as grisly as this or anything that's damaged broadcasting as much as this...