I’ve become intimately acquainted with how top-sliced systems work across the globe. Or rather, how they don’t.
Says the BBC’s Greg Sanderson in this article for Broadcast.
…everyone is better served by a broadcaster with their own desire to screen good PSB shows, than by a bureaucratic system which trusts in no-one, and therefore fails to reach the very people it was designed to serve.
Tags: BBC, top slicing, top-slice
September 16, 2009 at 10:15 pm
[...] 4. The “grants for outcomes” model leads to poor quality TV made without any sense of pleasing audiences in order to tick public policy boxes. [...]