The BBC plans to offer a “personalized” radio service that will use peer-to-peer internet technology to provide “thousands, ultimately millions, of individual radio services created by audiences themselves,” BBC Director-General Mark Thompsonsaid at this week’s Radio Festival in Cambridge.
In a sarcastic column, the Times media editor Dan Sabbagh takes a swipe at the BBC, asking why the state-funded broadcaster doesn't launch its own newspaper. Sabbagh's beef could be a reaction to the financial and tactical problems UK newspapers, several of which have already complained about the BBC, are having.