http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/01/21/cnbeeb21.xml
hum but it doesnt reduce the tv fee does it.
hum but it doesnt reduce the tv fee does it.
BBC to sell web ads from new US office
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crashuk said:
Come on now, its not that bad. We (UK ppl) will still have no ads. US ppl (who don't pay for BBC buy enjoy it for free will have to see some ads on the website.
This is actually good for UK ppl as BBC will get more funding.
Good and bad thing. Good that they're making money from country's that don't pay any fee's but bad because the bbc is archaic and should be culled. Really wish I could just get sky one and discovery channels without paying a stupid license fee.
ElRazur said:
The BBC has a huge catalogue of decent programming. Things like Planet Earth, Top Gear, Big Cat Diary etc. aren't cheap to make. Not forgetting big hits like the Office, Mitchell & Webb amongst a host of other great comedies. Also, the awesome News service they provide.
dirtydog said:More funding to keep the massive money-sucking monster that is the BBC, alive
lol you couldnt be more wrong.
In a time when the movie industry is being criticised for fighting technological evoltuion, the BBC is making its TV and Radio programming available on-line, and is making a dedication to producing top quality HD programming. The natural world series could not be described as anything other than breathtaking, and was shot entirely in HD. Same goes with most of their new drama's Bleak House was also shot entirely in HD.
Once HD really kicks off, the BBC will have lots of top quality HD programming available. And their attitude to the web is spot on. Some forms of media are fighting the internet as a new medium, likening it to nothing more than the pirates paradise. The BBC on the other hand, embrace it and put as much of their stuff on the web as they can. You can watch old top gear ephisodes you've missed. Listen to yesterday's live lounge session with Jo Whiley if you missed it. and even working lunch have archived all their programmes on there. Not to mention all the supporting stuff they put on there. How often do you see BBC saying, you can get more info on this on our website at ..
Yes the BBC is spending a lot of money, but you can see where its going.
And this is before we mention the service it provides, effectively free of charge, to the rest of the world.
and dont forget
if we didnt have the BBC, we wouldnt have Top Gear !
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ElRazur said:
hmm more rubbish as a percentage or more rubbish overall?
US tv is quite poor, but they have THAT many shows and that many channels that something good has to happen once in a while! for every malcolm in the middle there;s a Joey, or whatever programme hitting the air.
personally i think its an excellent business decision to gain additional funding from a terretory where the BBC is held in high esteem without compromising the BBC's mission or history within the UK of ad free TV shows.
MrLOL said:
Exactly. My point was El, ask anyone and everyones choice will be different, but the licence fee is in essence value for money for the quality programming we receive. Well, IMO anyway, which we don't have to all agree with, naturally.
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id happily pay license fee for MOTD, Football Focus, FA cup games Working Lunch and the odd other half decent show. it is value for money.
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I thought we were talking about decent programming?VIRII said:
crashuk said:
I am getting sick of your idiotic and blindly ignorant forum posts.
Adverts are for BBC AMERICA - ie advertising supported. Why should they not be selling content/adverts in the States. Indeed it may well be contributing financially to BBC UK, therefore either increasing BBC's output or reducing its tv fee.
Do you know anything about economics at any rate?? The TV license fee will actually go DOWN over the next remit. (Funding has REDUCED relative to inflation).
I am a fan of the BBC and a bigtime supporter, however didn't some watchdog or Govt agency enforce the relative drop in licence fee? If I recall rightly the BBC was after a pretty substantial rise.dirtydog said:
It does seem odd though that the Govt took a huge rise and claimed "pay peanuts get monkeys" but don't seem to take that approach to the BBC, perhaps the BBC hasn't been supportive of Nu Labour recently and hence bit the hand that fed it.
I thought all that had happened was, it is still going up but by a fractionally lesser amountVIRII said:
It is probably all for PR anyway. The BBC ask for more than they need, the government 'beats them down', the BBC pretend to be upset, the public think they've got a good deal, everyone's happy. Except me 
The only problem I have with the BBC is that they spend the lisence fee on six figure salries for the likes of Parkinson and Jonathan Ross. I think Ross was on 6 million last year. I'd rather they spent that money on something else and let ITV or Channel 4 pay that kind of money instead.