BBC Parliament ownership discussion

What are you on about? What's Hansard got to do with anything?


I'm not sure where the £4 million figure has come from, according to the latest BBC accounts the cost just for the BBC Parliament channel is £10.3
Content £2.4 million
Distribution £6.5 million
Infrastructure/support £1.4 million.
( http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/annualreport/pdf/bbc_ar_online_2009_10.pdf )

Even so it's very cheap for a TV channel. By contrast, BBC Alba cost £6 million that year and only broadcasts for a few hours a day. It's also a third of what the BBC currently pays towards S4C


Again, you're confusing the coverage of parliament with the TV channel. BBC, ITV, C4, C5 and Sky own and fund PARBUL. BBC Parliament is a channel that uses the PARBUL pictures, which would exist anyway

I wasn't confusing anything.
No matter, things are now different at TC.
Glad I'm not there now.

Considering Hansard is the authoritive collection of what was spoken in the Chamber on that particular day and is freely available on the Internet anyway, this argument doesn't hold a lot of water and the inclusion of this comment would appear to suggest you are not aware of exactly what Hansard is otherwise you wouldn't have said such a thing.

If you do not want to watch BBC Parliament, that's fine. Don't watch it.
Apart from the fact it shows some relatively fascinating programming on it and now airs General Election programming on Bank Holidays, which is material that that was very unlikely to ever be repeated in any significant sized portion since the original show.

First you brought Hansard into it, then ITV, now 'TC'... you're not confused at all!

Based on a weekly reach of 537,000, BBC Parliament costs £19.18 a year for every viewer that watches it. Per viewer, it is cheaper than BBC One (£28.89).