Thursday, June 30, 2011

BBC publishes annual WOCC results and response to BBC Trust's second WOCC review

Figures out today for the BBC's WOCC (Window of Creative Competition) for financial year 2010/2011 show marginal changes to the hours won by in-house versus independent production companies.

Overall, network programme hours within the WOCC have remained broadly the same between in-house and independents but there has been a slight growth for independents, from 70% to 72% and a slight dip for in-house, from 30% to 28%. 

Within individual genres, however, there have been changes in the numbers which shows the WOCC's success in providing a platform for creative competition in action (see numbers below). 

George Entwistle, Director BBC Vision, said: "The WOCC was set up to stimulate creativity and every year we see that demonstrated through healthy competition in each of the genres. As one of the key ways the BBC continues to deliver high quality programmes for its audience from both in-house production and the independent sector, the WOCC continues to do a very important job." 

Bal Samra, Director Vision Operations, added: "Over the past four years we've seen movements in individual genres. This is how it should be and demonstrates the success of the WOCC in inspiring the best for all audiences." 

Last year the BBC worked with a total of 305 independent production companies across the UK strengthening the BBC's supplier base. 

(Source : BBC press release)

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