BBC Cuts..

Alpherah

Alpherah

Alpherah

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Mentioned the following in the Motorsport forum, but rather then drag the thread off topic thought i would break 'the other stuff' into this forum :)

Talksport said:
BBC Expected to announce 'in the next few days' plan to completely drop F1 coverage and minor sports such as Darts in attempt to save £100+ Million a year.
Just mentioned on Talksport.

Other plans (non F1 related, but ill mention it anyway) include the dumbing down of wild life and documentary programmes to make them more appealing to a wider audience, changing daytime BBC 2 into a 'repeats' channel of previous weeks BBC4 programmes. Turning BBC4 into a purely arts channel.
BBC are also trying to negotiate a 15% cut in royalty payments to the actor's union, if this is unsuccessful then they have to make further cuts..
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People's thoughts?
A major saving would be actually getting all the BBC staff into their new Manchester studio, rather then paying to keep both the new and old one open because of a handful of well paid presenters (Mainly Top Gear and various Political shows) are refusing to move up north. They get great wages..tell em to put up or get lost?

Someone on the F1 forum pointed out this which i 100% agree with and find amusing:
So wildlife programs are not popular because they are too intelligent, yet arts programs are popular enough to have their own channel.
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And the BBC's reply is pretty much:
The BBC are saying that, after the license fee got frozen:
Petrol went (more) through the roof
Gas/Electricity prices went (more) through the roof
Food prices went up dramatically
Accommodation prices went up...

Yet their fee remains the same, so they need to save £100m+ to save themselves from going bust.


So anyway, thoughts? Are we really prepared to have F1 scrapped whilst the BBC are presenting live 'documentary' programmes on todays weather as they did last night?
 
:(:( Nooooo F1 :(:(:(

Just have Top Gear & F1 and get rid of the other stuff imo :D

Id happy pay £20pm to keep F1 going! only BBC! none of the sky pants!
 
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They could get rid of BBC News 24 and all radio stations except 2,3 and 4 - oh and the football. Other than that I don't see anything wrong with the BBC.
 
My heart bleeds for them... Perhaps if they hadn't been designed to be reliant on taxpayer's money and continue to be funded irrespective of whether they were producing the goods or not (which isn't to say that everything the Beeb produces is bad) then they wouldn't be in quite the same position.

The technology exists now to allow the BBC to be funded voluntarily, so that is the model they should be being moved towards.
 
They need to break off some parts and make them commercially funded. The Licence fee will easily cover BBC1 and 2 and Radio 1-5. Make BBC3 and 4 and all the digital radio stations commercially funded.
 
Its not the BBCs fault, im pretty sure they proposed to close some radio stations and people moaned because a handful of people listened to them.

If they got rid of Radio 3 - 1m+, killed BBC 4 and put its programming in with BBC 3 they could save some dosh.

I hope they dont get rid of F1 its the best coverage ive ever watched, ITV coverage was atrocious especially with adverts.
 
even the americans extract the urine about the bbc wildlife programs that have american narrators as they prefer the original attenborough versions, dumbing down is going to just ruin them
 
Just cut BBC3 and probably BBC4, they are fully of complete and utter ****.

Maybe it should be a voluntary payment channel, but keep strictly to 'good' programs, the mindless, fat, ugly chavs who watch the stupid **** like my big fat midget gynocologist's embarrasing nipple warts can go and watch the crap on sky.
 
That's what you get for dumping the BBC with expensive responsibilities while freezing the license fee. Well done successive governments!

I'd be sad to see the BBC drop F1 - as it's one of the things I follow - but it's doubtless expensive for the audience it receives.
 
Not sure how true this is but I heard Eastenders is the BBCs largest expenditure, how about they drop that? The world would be a better place in my opinion.
 
Cut the empire down to size by just leaving the core channels on TV/radio. Get rid of the multiplicity of newsroom and local duplication. Sell off part of their real estate and make them go self funded. It's time for them to join the real world.
 
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Just cut BBC3 and probably BBC4, they are fully of complete and utter ****.

Maybe it should be a voluntary payment channel, but keep strictly to 'good' programs, the mindless, fat, ugly chavs who watch the stupid **** like my big fat midget gynocologist's embarrasing nipple warts can go and watch the crap on sky.
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I'm thinking the British HBO personally :) The BBC can produce excellent shows, but it surrounds them with endless amounts of crap.
 
I can't see them dropping f1,
Also aren't there paid for world wide Iplayer being released soon, which will generate money.
It all seems like mere suggestions of how to save money thrown in by everyone. Rather than stuff being taken seriously.

As for BBC not showing the last few f1 races, that's clear BS. They would be sued for billions for breech of contract. That alone puts all the other stuff in the rumours category.
 
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Alpherah said:
A major saving would be actually getting all the BBC staff into their new Manchester studio, rather then paying to keep both the new and old one open because of a handful of well paid presenters (Mainly Top Gear and various Political shows) are refusing to move up north. They get great wages..tell em to put up or get lost?
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How much do you think the enforced moves to Manchester and Glasgow have cost? Them, plus the upgrading of Broadcasting House are around the £1bn mark, and it's not even something the BBC wanted to do, it's something they were forced into by the previous government deciding they were too London-centric.

It's not just the programmes that are moving out of London either, the BBC is spending a fortune on redundancy payments for those not willing to relocate from the likes of their Future Media & Technology which develops and runs iPlayer. If I was a ,Net dev then why would I want to relocate my family to Manchester when there are loads of jobs still in London?

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Also aren't there paid for world wide Iplayer being released soon, which will generate money.
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If it makes back it's initial investment within 3 years I will eat my hat. Launch is a week today.
 
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How much do you think the enforced moves to Manchester and Glasgow have cost? Them, plus the upgrading of Broadcasting House are around the £1bn mark, and it's not even something the BBC wanted to do, it's something they were forced into by the previous government deciding they were too London-centric.

It's not just the programmes that are moving out of London either, the BBC is spending a fortune on redundancy payments for those not willing to relocate from the likes of their Future Media & Technology which develops and runs iPlayer. If I was a ,Net dev then why would I want to relocate my family to Manchester when there are loads of jobs still in London?
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Whats done is done, but what's clearly not helping is running two separate sites.
 
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