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Article: BBC Trust halts plans for regional web video; Corporation told to improve its current services CREATIVE INDUSTRIES.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- November 24, 2008
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Byline: ANNA BLACKABY creative industries
Regional newspapers breathed a sigh of relief after the BBC Trust rejected the broadcaster's pounds 68 million proposals to enter the web-based local video market.
The BBC Trust, the body which represents licence-fee payers, vetoed the BBC's plans, saying they would not improve services for the public enough to justify spending licence fee payers' money.
Neither would they justify the negative impact on commercial media, said the trust, a conclusionwhichwas welcomed by regional press players who had spoken ...