BBC Chief Tony Hall Admits Services Could Go Dark Because Of Coronavirus
BBC director normal Tony Corridor has admitted that a few of the British broadcaster’s companies could possibly be knocked off air by the unfold of the coronavirus within the UK.
Talking earlier than British Parliament’s Digital, Tradition, Media and Sport Committee, Corridor stated there “could possibly be” a state of affairs the place some information and native companies endure if there’s a coronavirus outbreak amongst workers.
The outgoing chief burdened, nonetheless, that the BBC is working exhausting to ensure this doesn’t occur and is gaming out completely different situations to place contingency plans in place.
“We’re additionally our resilience, if a service was to be hit for some time. We’ve to ensure our information companies preserve transmitting on tv and on radio,” he instructed MPs. “We intend on protecting completely all the pieces open. We all know that globally, nationally and domestically, individuals… flip to us for data.”
Bob Shennan, the BBC’s group managing director, is chairing a each day taskforce on coronavirus, whereas Corridor can also be presiding over common conferences on the matter.
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“We’re placing out each day data to the workers. This morning’s work has been round friends coming into the constructing and checking we all know the historical past of friends, the place they’ve been and so forth,” Corridor defined.
It comes as Deadline revealed the primary main UK tv manufacturing casualty because of COVID-19: Studio Lambert’s BBC One present Celeb Race Throughout The World has been postponed. It was attributable to begin filming subsequent month.
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