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"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...dia-initiative