Matt Deegan

Radio, podcasts and what's next in media.

Matt Deegan builds media businesses, writes about where audio is going, and talks about it all, weekly on The Media Club.

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Save What The BBC Does

Updates from the Edinburgh TV Festival

I’m just back from the Edinburgh TV Festival after having published a rather large thought experiment about the future of the BBC. My argument in Public Media 2028 is that we should use the end of the Charter in 2027 to do something more radical than finding another way to fund roughly the same BBC for another decade. Instead, work out what… Read on →

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Public Media 2028

What if, when the BBC's Charter ends in 2027, we didn't just renew the BBC?

A proposal for rebuilding British public media around the things worth protecting: independent news, local and national services, culture and children's content, distinctive radio and big shared moments — alongside a new commercial British media company built from the BBC, Channel 4 and UKTV.

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The Media Club

An irreverent look at the week's media news — television, radio, streaming, print and everything in between.

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Channel 4 to become Channel ¾

Listen now (43 mins) | A quarter of Channel 4’s workforce will be gone by the end of the year in Priya Dogra’s grand vision. Listen and watch →

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