While the BBC celebrates its 100th anniversary, our media publisher looks at the challenges it faces, from competition from streaming services to reaching young people on TikTok.
Great institutions, like great literature, are often born out of existential angst, as urgent responses to the horrors prevalent in their time. As with TS Eliot's The Waste Land, released in 1922, so did the BBC.
When Lord Reith - shot in the face in WWI world - became the first general manager, he had the national interest at heart. A Scottish engineer in post-war London, he wanted to deploy the latest technology to rebuild a war-ravaged country.
Today few people would suggest building a public media institution. Even fewer would fund it through a fee, seen by some as a tax on households. And yet, as the applause for its coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth II demonstrates, the BBC often remains world-class.
While the BBC celebrates its 100th anniversary, our media publisher looks at the challenges it faces, from competition from streaming services to reaching young people on TikTok.
Great institutions, like great literature, are often born out of existential angst, as urgent responses to the horrors prevalent in their time. As with TS Eliot's The Waste Land, released in 1922, so did the BBC.
When Lord Reith - shot in the face in WWI world - became the first general manager, he had the national interest at heart. A Scottish engineer in post-war London, he wanted to deploy the latest technology to rebuild a war-ravaged country.
Today few people would suggest building a public media institution. Even fewer would fund it through a fee, seen by some as a tax on households. And yet, as the applause for its coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth II demonstrates, the BBC often remains world-class.
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