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The BBC Board of Governors have published their account of business at their November meeting. Items discussed included:
* BBC’s long-term budget strategy - Governors asked management to analyse the implications of the proposed budget for the allocation of spend by programme genre
* accommodation in Birmingham
* World Service strategy
* the response to the public consultation on the BBC’s proposed digital curriculum
* additional investment in programme-making outside London (details were announced on 27 November)
The Board also considered reports and updates on:
* the performance of the Ten O’Clock News on BBC ONE
* contingency plans for the strike planned by NUJ members working in the World Service News Room
* complaints received at BBC Information, the Programme Complaints Unit and at Departmental Head level throughout the BBC during the period July to September 2000. The report detailed the volume and nature of the complaints received
* the minutes of a number of advisory bodies including the Broadcasting Councils for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, the English National Forum and the BBC London Advisory Council.
* BBC’s long-term budget strategy - Governors asked management to analyse the implications of the proposed budget for the allocation of spend by programme genre
* accommodation in Birmingham
* World Service strategy
* the response to the public consultation on the BBC’s proposed digital curriculum
* additional investment in programme-making outside London (details were announced on 27 November)
The Board also considered reports and updates on:
* the performance of the Ten O’Clock News on BBC ONE
* contingency plans for the strike planned by NUJ members working in the World Service News Room
* complaints received at BBC Information, the Programme Complaints Unit and at Departmental Head level throughout the BBC during the period July to September 2000. The report detailed the volume and nature of the complaints received
* the minutes of a number of advisory bodies including the Broadcasting Councils for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, the English National Forum and the BBC London Advisory Council.
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