The BBC

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/17/mark-thompson-bbc-fox-news

Mark Thompson: I enjoy crack rock and trolling

"Kelvin MacKenzie said he should be able to host a debate about immigration or Britain pulling out of Europe without having to present a countervailing point of view."

Yeah I bet.

lol in what sense do you have a debate without a countervailing point of view yeah i know it's MacKenzie ignore him or shoot him in the balls

Debate:

"I say deport the lot of them" "No, no, we must shoot them all"

"I say your three cent titanium tax goes too far."
"And I say your three cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough."

like, who/what in the hell is mark thompson fucking in the photographs with which murdoch is clearly blackmailing him?

got no problem with dropping the pretence of impartiality in news broadcasting btw, it's just that Thompson and everybody involved in News International and their families and friends are cunts

isn't there already a channel like fox news in the UK, ie sky news? only know it from kay burley bullshiteness, tho, never really watched it, and heard its coverage of the protests/riots was more Fair And Balanced than the beeb's.

and that fat ugly dude who blew his stack at alastair campbell during the general election.

that was Gordon Brown iirc

i believe GB blew his load, not his stack

thompson didn't actually say "like fox news" right?

this 'justice' season is bobbins really isn't it

Trailer certainly was, hence not watching it.

screening undergrad seminars is really scraping the barrel

All BBC websites are down just now, is this a sign of something truly terrifying?

iPlayer 2 launch

its been down for ages. I asked a bbc employee
A Question for Ronan?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2011/03/technical_problems_3.html

oh no, where will i get my news about america now

i'm on the today programme at 0810 on this morning talking about ireland, in a non professional capacity. fyilxorz.

oh no, where will i get my news about america now

http://www.tmz.com/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9451000/9451025.stm

i'm on this 2 mins in

You're an official "young person"!

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Person

I thought I recognized your voice at the time but wasn't certain until John Humphries thanked you at the end.

one week out of the bbc and i can be a contributor...was quite cool meeting john humphries.

my friend M4rk was on the Today programme this morning as well! clearly it is the official Young People day today.

Well done Young Ronan! :-)

"you've been called a 'man of oats'.. however you are also called 'ronan'. which is it?"

ronan!

humph humph humphries

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/06_june/13/television.shtml

first they came for pebble mill...

v badly cut pic in this story...http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/14509068

you're right, they should have cropped out his face

http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/dqf/ataglance.shtml

Changes to the BBC's TV channels:

Protecting BBC One and Two in peak time, albeit with small reductions in entertainment programming and acquisitions;
Making BBC One the channel for all new general daytime programmes;
Changing BBC Two's daytime schedule to feature international news and current affairs programmes at lunchtime. Other parts of the daytime schedule would be repeats of mainly factual programmes, including science, history, natural history and arts, as well as live sport;
Re-focusing BBC Three and BBC Four to play supporting roles to the two bigger channels; and
Replacing the HD channel with an HD version of BBC Two to broadcast alongside the existing BBC One HD channel.

Changes to the BBC's radio stations:

Protecting Radio 4 by keeping its underlying budget stable, excluding the impact of productivity savings;
Greater sharing of news bulletins between Radio 2 and 6 Music, Radio 1 and 1Xtra, and Radio 3 and 4;
Reducing the amount of original drama, live music and specially recorded concerts at lunchtime on Radio 3, and reviewing the BBC's orchestras and singers;
Reinvestment in the Proms to maintain quality;
Focusing Radio 5 Live on core output of news and sport;
A new more focused Asian Network with a 34 per cent reduction in its content spend; and
Making savings in radio distribution costs through long term changes to Medium Wave and Long Wave.

Changes to programming and services in the nations and regions:

For TV, protecting underlying investment in news programming; producing fewer non-news programmes and rebroadcasting more of them to UK audiences; and increasing investment in network programming produced across Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales;
For nations radio, reducing investment in non-news programming and focusing on peak-time; and
For English local radio, focusing spend on peak-time programmes, but with increased sharing across regions in off-peak slots.

Reducing the amount of original drama, live music and specially recorded concerts at lunchtime on Radio 3, and reviewing the BBC's orchestras and singers

a small price to pay to keep Radio Britpop running

For English local radio, focusing spend on peak-time programmes, but with increased sharing across regions in off-peak slots.

So... keeping "Newsdrive" type shows with the rest beamed in from London. Brilliant.

Can't wait to hear BBC Radio Sussex, live from Salford.

Re-focusing BBC Three and BBC Four to play supporting roles to the two bigger channels

What does this mean? Repeats, right?

or expanded versions of shows broadcast on the main 2, yeah

Spin-offs like Doctor Who Confidential, right?

Oh.

Delivering Quality First: an hour of BBC2 time on Sunday wasted asking whether it's going to snow in Britain this winter. The answer was: at some point in winter it is very likely to snow somewhere in Britain.

Delivering Shovels First morelike.

Even worse, I watched it

Does it feature Positive Weather Solutions?

This topical programme taps into the nation's obsession with the weather and asks whether we are heading for another 'snowmageddon' as experienced in the previous two years.

Can forecasters give us warning this time around? How does the 'olde' weather lore compare with the supercomputers? And what are we doing across Britain to prepare ourselves as we head into winter?

'Will It Snow?' predicts what another extreme cold snap would spell for Britain's economy as it puts the science of weather forecasting to the test and asks the experts what we are in store for between now and spring.

heading for another 'snowmageddon' as experienced in the previous two years.

It used to snow more than that every bloody winter. #kickaballinthestreet

what are we doing across Britain to prepare ourselves as we head into winter?

Probably 'sod all' as usual.

I have booked my market stall on the frozen Thames. When I was young there were two or three Frost Fairs even in summer, when the golden corn stood tall and you walk around naked till November, plucking ripe apples from the hedgerows. The partridges flew into your mouth feathered and cooked. It were a grand ride down, mind.

there are apples still on the tree i can see from the office window. nb i am fully clothed.

This is just comically piss-poor

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16692342