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By
Soumen Nanda
Somendra Singh
Shubham Pandey
Sonu Tiwari
Sourav Pramanik
Souvik Ghosh
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Introduction
• BBC at a glance
– Group Of British & American electrical
company
– Granted Royal Charter in 1927
– Earnings from Licenses
– Radio Broadcasting on 14th Nov,1922
– TV Broadcasting in 1936
• Competition after 1955
– Advent of ITV , Channel 4
• Role Of BECTU
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• Division of BBC
– BBC Broadcast
– BBC Production
• Division of BBC Technology Group
– BBC Technology Direction
– BBCTL
• BBCTL SBSMH
– Outsource the IT to SBS
• Why Outsourcing ?
– Need for outsourcing
– Requirement for BBC
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Reasons for outsourcing at BBC
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Benefits of OUTSOURCING
• Their knowledge about the changes that were taking place in broadcast
market and the broadcasting technology that BBC used
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BBC’s Criteria for evaluation
• Scale of operations, resources available with the firm and the
funding levels of the company to help the BBC realize its
technology vision over the next 10 years.
• Cultural fit
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Why SBS Was The Winner
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LOOKING BACK…
• A deal to increase economies of scale for BBC.
• Faced with labour protests.
• Technology outsourcing proved to have been implemented successfully.
• However- 60% of the key technology projects in the deal's first
year suffered delays or went over budget.
• In the first year of the contract, savings were just £22m - 38% lower
that the original forecast of £35.2 m. *
…AND AHEAD
• BBC-SBS deal- A trend setter.
• Expansion of the broadcasting technology services sector.
• Advent of new technologies and improved production facilities.
• A new option and also a caution for broadcasters.
* source- www.computerworlduk.org
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