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| Ding Dang Doo  Join Date: 31-01-2004 Location: Scotland
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Broadcasting is in crisis. Today the BBC's director general Mark Thompson will announce the cutting of thousands of jobs across the corporation. His announcement comes a week after a government-backed inquiry floated the idea of scrapping the licence fee, thereby threatening the BBC's universality. It is also only days since ITV companies welcomed proposals to allow them to scrap half their non-news regional programming and ditch regional news and current affairs where it is too costly for shareholders. But under commercial pressure, from BskyB, ITV's shareholders and newspaper owners - the very people who stand to gain the most - the government has changed.... Source: Media Guardian More... h**p://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1368016,00.html
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