Rush job

The BBC Trust meets on Friday this week, and will be asked to approve minutes of their December meeting. The first two items then (in summary) were ..

• Consideration of the BBC World Service operating licence 

• Consideration of income sources for BBC World Service once funding transfers to the licence fee in April 2014. 

More detailed minutes are due in three weeks' time. Which takes us to the first week in February. Leaving around seven weeks for any public discussion of the proposals, ahead of the transfer of BBC World Service to licence-fee funding on 1st April.