When looking at best web practice, it’s never long before you get round to the extraordinary BBC. For an “old media” organisation, it really seems to have worked out how to live in the brave new world. Spotted this week in the Economist a series of amazing facts. Each week 98% of adult Britons use a BBC service. Its website gets 20 million British visits a month – one third of the UK population. 63% of Britons trust its journalists to tell the truth. Its income is somewhere around 4.5 billion pounds sterling. Is there anything else like this in the world? Can it last? Article here.
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It’s true – the BBC is quite extraordinary. I’m only speaking for myself here, but I’ve found it’s difficult for non-English speakers to grasp how important the BBC can be to us anglophones, and how good its output is.
Some more stats: just one radio station (BBC4) is the world leader in commissioning drama; another (World Service) broadcasts in 32 languages to a weekly audience of over 150 million listeners.
And There Are No Ads (except for other BBC stations and products).
Brits complain about the license fee, but it’s similar to what most Europeans pay, and they get ads and dubbed US programmes in primetime for their money.
OK, I admit it, I’m a bit of a fan, and it’s far from perfect. But there’s not really anything like it, anywhere else. Expect to see fireworks in the UK over the proposed cuts. Hands off Auntie!