BBC axes £98m technology project more Public money Burned

[arista]

"The BBC has admitted that it has wasted almost £100m
on a technology project that was designed to
make the corporation "tapeless",
and has closed it to stop it "throwing good money after bad".
The BBC has spent £98.4m on the
controversial Digital Media Initiative – which was designed
to do away with video tapes and create a kind of internal
YouTube of BBC archive content that staff can access,
upload, edit and then air from
their computers – the equivalent of almost 660,000 licence fees.
BBC trustee Anthony Fry has written to the Margaret Hodge,
chairman of the Public Accounts Committee,
and to the National Audit Office explaining
that the BBC's chief technology officer,
John Linwood, has been suspended from
his £287,000-a-year job."



Mother Fecking Bloated BBC


http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/may/24/bbc-technology-project-digital-media-initiative

[Vicky.]

Makes me glad I dont pay my TV license tbh :idc:

(I am aware its not ALL for the bbc, but most of it is)

[GiRTh]

Incompetent idiots.

[arista]

Incompetent idiots.


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[lostalex]

The BBC has spent £98.4m on the
controversial Digital Media Initiative – which was designed
to do away with video tapes and create a kind of internal
YouTube of BBC archive content that staff can access,
upload, edit and then air from
their computers – the equivalent of almost 660,000 licence fees.

It sounds like a cool idea, why are they abandoning it? The BBC is one of the world's great media companies, it makes sense that they were trying to make a huge digital library from their content. If they have already spent so much money it seems silly to abandon the project now.

[arista]

"why are they abandoning it?"


It does not work


"aimed to digitise archive, results in catalogue of errors"

[lostalex]

but i mean, surely they could hire someone that knows how to make these type of systems work...they've already put so much time and money into it, and the concept is a good concept...

[GiRTh]

but i mean, surely they could hire someone that knows how to make these type of systems work...they've already put so much time and money into it, and the concept is a good concept...Awww bless. How old are you? I'm curious.

[lostalex]

Awww bless. How old are you? I'm curious.

31 :)

[GiRTh]

31 :)Really? For real? Oh my Lord. :spin:

[lostalex]

Really? For real? Oh my Lord. :spin:

fer realzz dood.

[GiRTh]

fer realzz dood.31? and you're from California? Which part?

[lostalex]

31? and you're from California? Which part?

Oakland.

you seem very interested in me, and it really has nothing to do with the thread, seems like this convo would be more appropriate in PM's, feel free to PM me if you wanna get to know me better.

[GiRTh]

Oakland.

you seem very interested in me, and it really has nothing to do with the thread, seems like this convo would be more appropriate in PM's, feel free to PM me if you wanna get to know me better.
I dont particularly want to know you any better I'm just trying to understand the reasoning behind your 'views'. i'm still none the wiser BTW.

[arista]

Oakland.

you seem very interested in me, and it really has nothing to do with the thread, seems like this convo would be more appropriate in PM's, feel free to PM me if you wanna get to know me better.



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[james130]

I have so much hate for the BBC. :idc:

[arista]

I have so much hate for the BBC. :idc:


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