BBC lead digital future

The Government have published their green paper on the future of the BBC and the differrent areas of the media with their own opinions and positions have taken different aspects of the paper as their top line.

For most though the important top line seems to be the governors leaving.

Sky News have taken the fact that the governors are to be scrapped in favour of an external BBC Trust.

The Guardian also started the day with a story about the governors but later added another story that mentioned the loss of governors but taged it with ...but licence fee stays.

Digital Britain

The point that struck me was the line saying the BBC should lead Digital Britain.

BBC Director-General Mark Thompson said: "The Green Paper endorses the ambitious public purposes we set out in Building Public Value, adding for the first time an explicit purpose for the BBC to lead the building of digital Britain."

This is the most exciting aspect of the whole thing and for the first time puts the BBC's digital services at the forefront of what the BBC is paid to do.

Instead of the digital channels, bbc.co.uk, listen again and interactive being a sideline that isn't specifically mentioned in the Charter, it looks like they will now be as important (if not more important) than the traditional analogue services (on radio and tv).

Links:
BBC Press Release
BBC News Story
Guardian News Story
Sky News Story
Green paper in full