Thursday, November 16, 2017

Oldies but goldies

A week ago I wrote about how the BBC is considering new ways of accessing its back catalogue, currently with much of the good stuff assigned to UKTV, operated in 50/50 partnership with Scripps TV.

Now The Telegraph tells us that BBC Worldwide finance people are on the hunt for investors to help with a buy-out of the Scripps share. Scripps are currently being bought out by Discovery - and the BBC has first option on buying back its half of UKTV. Then, perhaps, follows the trickier implementation of paid-for-streaming via some yet-to-be-defined cousin of the iPlayer - a potentially dangerous thin-end-of-the-wedge towards a BBC-funded-just-by-subscription.

(Enough dashes - Ed)

1 comment:

  1. You-forgot-to-include-my-link-to-The-Telegraph:
    https://t.co/nmXqM8jrLp

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