UNDERNEWS: BBC preparing to go online-only over next decade, says director general

December 11, 2022

BBC preparing to go online-only over next decade, says director general

Guardian -The BBC is preparing to shut down its traditional television and radio broadcasts as it becomes an online-only service over the next decade, according to the director general, Tim Davie...Davie said the BBC was committed to live broadcasting but Britons should prepare for the closure of many standalone channels and radio stations by the 2030s: “Over time this will mean fewer linear broadcast services and a more tailored joined-up online offer

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Strelnikov said...: That is intensely dumb because there is no backup if the Internet has an outage. They should keep their FM/AM/SW transmitters as a backup for at least the news end of the BBC, so they can report when BBC-Internet is down.; December 12, 2022 at 2:24 PM

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