BBC has announced a revolutionary schedule for the next TV season. The British public service broadcaster will air many more programmes of different kinds to contain the outflow of younger viewers to the Internet and combat competition from Netflix and Amazon. The new development plan created by Director General Tony Hall foresees substantial investments (14,4 million pounds more) in children’s services and a total budget of 124,4 million pounds for the years 2019-2020, including 31,4 million to spend online.
These additional resources will be used both to produce new TV formats and to enrich the range of content of the individual programmes. Here’s the list of programmes increasing through this investment: topical news programmes, music mix by Radio1, information of local content from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and live streaming broadcasts on iPlayer, besides Reality Check’s reports against fake news.
«The challenge is to reinvent the corporation to meet the new generations», Hall said, whowas recently accused of focusing on TV ratings, neglecting to fulfil the tasks of a public service (even if it’s usually used as a model for RAI). «We explore latest technologies» such as virtual reality, vocal activation and artificial intelligence. And this way, according to the Director General, «we want to maintain our reputation in the traditional TV and plan one of the most important investments for young people at the same time. We want to tell the changing UK, the different realities inside the same nation».
