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The Media Show: Tim Hincks, BBC Three going online, The future of Olympic coverage

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01/07/2015

Tim Hincks, BBC Three going online, The future of Olympic coverage

BBC Radio 4 - The Media Show, Tim Hincks, BBC Three going online, The future of Olympic coverage

Tim Hincks, the president of Endemol Shine, discusses creativity and class bias in TV.

Steve Hewlett presents media news, including Tim Hincks on creativity and class bias in TV, a look at the threat to BBC Olympics coverage, and news on BBC Three's move online.

Tim Hincks, the President of Endemol Shine, on defining and nurturing creativity, tackling the middle class bias in TV, why we should embrace the mainstream and why UK television is best when it engages with the rest of the world.

Richard Ayre from the BBC Trust explains why the Trust has given a provisional and conditional go-ahead to BBC proposals to close BBC3 as a broadcast channel and move it online, and to extend the evening hours of CBBC - but has said no to the idea of BBC One +1.

The former director of the BBC's London 2012 Olympic Games coverage, Roger Mosey discusses the International Olympic Committee's decision to award European TV rights to the games to the US communications company Discovery. How big a blow is it to the BBC and what will it mean for viewers?

And we hear the latest on reports of further job cuts at the BBC as it faces what is claimed to be a £150M shortfall in anticipated income, as more viewers choose to watch TV exclusively via online catch-up services - which are exempt from the licence fee.

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