Mark Thompson Dig Quotations

My vision for the future of the BBC has three parts: a bold new program and content strategy based above all around the idea of excellence; a transformation of the BBC into a state-of-the art digital broadcaster; and an irreversible shift in the culture of the BBC toward simplicity, opportunity and creativity,

AOL just zoomed by Prodigy, ... Prodigy has to differentiate itself to grab a piece of the market that it can own.

We welcome ITV as partners in the project to develop a consumer-friendly, subscription-free satellite proposition. This is great news for viewers. It paves the way to provide subscription-free digital television across the whole country.

Increasingly we shall have people who are trained to work in all three media, so we can deliver this added service with relatively modest extra investment. For the television component we are not talking about 24 hours. We are talking about quite small segments of news being delivered on broadband and on digital satellite to consumers.

They're setting these tests in ways that increase the chances of success. It's like if you dig a groove into a bowling lane and then roll the ball down that groove and knock down all ten pins. What have you really proved?