Seminars
Commercial Services Seminar
22 September 2004
The Commercial Services seminar provided a high level consideration of the BBC's involvement in commercial activities. The panel debated whether the Corporation should, in their view, provide commercial services at all; and if so, what the guiding principles of the BBC's commercial activities should be. Possible limits and potential targets for the commercial services were discussed alongside the relationship between such activities and the BBC's public service objectives. Fairness and transparency were also explored by a panel chaired by Lord Burns, and comprising members of his independent panel and guest participants drawn from the worlds of academia, the media and industry.
View archived webstreams of this seminar at: www.bbc.co.uk/thefuture/seminars/dcms_seminars.shtml
Seminar Transcript:
We have produced transcripts of each seminar. Every attempt
has been made to accurately transcribe the debate, however, due to the
acoustics of the conference room, this transcript may contain minor
errors.
Transcript
for the seminar on Commercial Services (PDF 249kb)
Seminar Papers:
Agenda
(PDF 16kb)
BBC
Commercial Services: Facts and Figures (PDF 105kb)
Note
on the BBC's Fair Trading Agreement (PDF 26kb)
Richard
Whish's Review of the BBC's Fair Trading Commitment and Commercial Policy
Guidelines (PDF 100kb)
Extract
on Commercial Services from “ Review of the BBC’s Royal
Charter: The BBC’s response to the DCMS consultation”
(PDF 66kb)
Extract
from DCMS’ consultation report ‘What You Said About The
BBC’: Chapter 8: Commercial services (PDF 41kb)
Guest Speakers:
Glen Barnham
Victoria Barnsley
Peter Bennett-Jones
Dr William Bishop
Philippa Brown
Richard Collins
Stephen Cook
Geoff Metzger
John Smith
David King
Guest Speakers Biographies PDF (423kb)
Related Information:
Independent
Advisor & Panel
Some of these documents are available online in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
format.
