How very generous of the BBC to be willing to share some of its knowledge of digital production and sharing its ‘scientific know-how' in order that it maintains the sole recipient of the licence fee.
But there are a number of problems with this - the BBCs knowledge was publicly paid-for and should have automatically been given to the public service broadcasters in the first place, particularly given C4 is also publicly-owned while ITV actually contributes money back to the Exchequer. Equally talk of ‘scientific know-how' sounds suitably nebulous to almost be meaningless.
On its third proposal - the sharing of some of its regional and local news for repurposing and rebroadcasting - defeats the entire point of the plurality of public service broadcasting that the Ofcom review is supposed to be all about.
Instead, wouldn't it make more sense if the BBC brought all its news divisions together so that the appalling spectacle of teams of BBC journalists - all representing its various different outlets - aren't all sent to cover the same event as is so often the case.
From this obvious saving of duplication of costs, the BBC should have more than enough licence fee to share with its commercial rivals. Ofcom should file this BBC submission straight in the bin.
