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I'm no expert...but if you are a nonprofit, and you can do something for $100, then I, as a private company, will want to have my margin added on top of the actual $100 cost of the activity if I do it for you. (Or do some of these independent producers try to function as non-profits? I don't know...does anyone?)
Alternatively, if you have a unionised workforce and I don't...well....wages are usually one of the largest cost-components of any activity...
... is that really the point? Is all this outsourcing just designed to change the balance of power between the organizations and labour in the media industry in general (and the public service part of it in particular)? Or is it just that the structure of the BBC right now is getting in the way of evolving the corporation into whatever it is intended to evolve into? Part of some long-term plan to turn the BBC into something more like the American PBS or the Canadian CBC?
How many of the people who lose their positions at the BBC will end up joining the production concerns that the BBC will outsource to? What sort of positions, exactly are intended to be eliminated?
TVC is, when you get down to it, just famous real estate. But changing the way that content is produced is changing the way the BBC does its job. What sort of institution will it be after these changes are made?
Sale of BBC Television Centre confirmed by BBC Trust
I have a question. If the BBC is supposed to operate as a non-profit organization, how is there to be any long-term savings in outsourcing production activities to profit-motivated private contractors?I'm no expert...but if you are a nonprofit, and you can do something for $100, then I, as a private company, will want to have my margin added on top of the actual $100 cost of the activity if I do it for you. (Or do some of these independent producers try to function as non-profits? I don't know...does anyone?)
Alternatively, if you have a unionised workforce and I don't...well....wages are usually one of the largest cost-components of any activity...
... is that really the point? Is all this outsourcing just designed to change the balance of power between the organizations and labour in the media industry in general (and the public service part of it in particular)? Or is it just that the structure of the BBC right now is getting in the way of evolving the corporation into whatever it is intended to evolve into? Part of some long-term plan to turn the BBC into something more like the American PBS or the Canadian CBC?
How many of the people who lose their positions at the BBC will end up joining the production concerns that the BBC will outsource to? What sort of positions, exactly are intended to be eliminated?
TVC is, when you get down to it, just famous real estate. But changing the way that content is produced is changing the way the BBC does its job. What sort of institution will it be after these changes are made?