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Ofcom turns its nose up at BBC plans
BBC PROPOSALS to launch a local online video service would have a significant negative impact on commercial providers, Ofcom concludes today.
The plans include launching an enhanced version of the “BBC Local” websites which will be available on any internet-enabled device.
The MIA reveals that if the BBC Local Video services were launched, then annual revenues from existing commercial providers would fall by up to four percent. It would also have a negative impact on future innovation in online local news, sports, and weather services by the commercial sector, particularly local newspapers.
Ofcom is considering potential changes to the BBC’s proposals. µ
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How can you restrict free reporting of the local news in any media format =S

4% Revenue loss is just life. Ofcom is overstepping here. Exactly the same issues are posed by the BBC airing on TV. At the end of the day the choice is up to the viewer. The viewer's made a choice to have an impartial media service as well as commercial services. The ends mustn't justify the means.
So let me get this straight. We pay a license fee. The BBC uses this fee to provide "innovative" content. Ofcom then decides that instead of letting them get on with it they should stop them so some private company can rip off the idea and make us pay for something we would have got for free?

Genius. Capitalism just gets better and better.
Despite all it's claims to "open and candid" debate, toothless old Ofcom still isn't really listening to the public, is it?

It's 1998 all over again. It's high time we had a government that would have the gumption to take some corrective action and put Ofcom back on track.

Pete