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Alan Connor | 09:40 UK time, Friday, 18 July 2008

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The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Trust has published Pricewaterhouse Coopers' research "into the economic impact of the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s publicly funded services on the UK broadcasting and creative sector" [pdf] - sections 5.5 and 13 are the ones to head for first from a bbc.co.uk angle, but you should of course read all 196 pages.

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Tom Loosemore, formerly of this parish, on the Ofcom PSB Blog:

So, we have an estimate of the market upside resulting from a licence-fee funded ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳, but no numbers for the downside.

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In an Organgrinder post called , John Plunkett looks at hyperlocalness, asking and answering the question:

How often does my ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ regional news service mention Hazlemere shopping centre or those nightmare traffic lights near High Wycombe? Never.

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Lots of activity with mobiles: write up the given by the Beeb's Jason DaPonte at the [] and (tagline: "Subverting telecomms from the edge of industry") writes about where he talked to Charlotte and Anthony from ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Switch about ", , , , , , , , , , , , , , plus lots of other stuff" and looked at new initiatives like :

I was amazed at the innovation taking place at the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ especially from the Switch team in the Youth arena.

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The Beeb's Andrew Bowden the bewildering array of food websites with some connection to the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳, including bbc.co.uk/food, , , and - it's as if all the intricate relationships between the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Worldwide, UKTV, the Open University, etc, have been depicted, in microcosm, in a diagram made of sausages.

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And there's a Freedom Of Information request [btw, did you know about the Beeb's FoI blog? - Ed] with an unwieldy name that's very much on Internet Blog's beat, , that's currently awaiting clarification:

I note that the process you describe leads one to suspect that the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Trust will find it hard to be perceived as an effective, independent regulator if all FOI correspondance it receives is automatically handled by and thus shared with ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Management - the very people is it supposed to regulate.

Alan Connor is co-editor, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Internet Blog.

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