The BBC have ditched the technology project to digitize all
content, including archives and become a completely tape
less environment.They have already spent, allegedly, £98 million on
this project and still have not completed it and are now admitting that this
project has gone wrong. So bad in fact that the BBC trust has appointed
PriceWaterhouseCoopers to investigate where the project went wrong.
I have got to ask the question, do they know what they are
doing ?? The people that bought us the iPlayer, the most avidly used VOD in the
UK, with more than 2.3 billion programme requests in 2012 alone. Yet they spend
£98 million and fail on trying to make a tape less environment.
It is embarrassing, major issues
became apparent when the BBC covered the passing of the former British Prime
Minister Maggie Thatcher. It is reported that BBC news staff could
not retrieve content from the archives in the new broadcast facility
in central London.
It gets worse when you read that this project was started or
rather approved in 2008,
technology supplier Siemens was handed the £79m contract without open
competition.
Siemens parted company on this project by
mutual agreement in 2009 after failing to deliver.
Today, 4 years on, CTO John Linwood as
been suspended from his post. Ironically after 4 years in that job
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