Project Canvas gets final BBC Trust approval

So it has taken some time since their very  first proposal, but the BBC Executive yesterday (Friday, 25 June) had their plans for Project Canvas cleared by governing body the BBC Trust.

We’ll come back to some of the detail over the coming days, but in summary, the BBC is now allowed to continue to be involved in the initiative (which involves 6 other companies too, with a possible 7th to join later on too).

The Trust did impose some conditions on BBC involvement - all of which can be found in summary here at the BBC site - but there really wasn’t anything there that the BBC Exec wasn’t planning on doing already. The Trust’s conditions just ensure those plans are committed to by all companies in the venture, otherwise the BBC - and its cash - will need to drop out.

Below is a word cloud of two documents from Friday - the final conclusions from the BBC Trust (the top cloud), and those submissions  made to the Trust after its provisional conclusions earlier this year that were not held as confidential (the bottom cloud). (Both word clouds made with Wordle.net). Both have had the terms “BBC” “Trust” and “Canvas” taken out.