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Worzel
[quote="Blake Connolly" pid="711573"]
Steve in Pudsey posted:


What a waste of taxpayers money LOL! Wink
MW
Mike W
[quote="Worzel" pid="712590"]
Blake Connolly posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:


What a waste of taxpayers money LOL! Wink


What tax is that?

The Licence Fee is not a tax, nobody forces you to pay it, nobody makes you have a TV...
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chris
Mike W posted:

The Licence Fee is not a tax, nobody forces you to pay it, nobody makes you have a TV...


Nobody forces you to buy products, but the VAT on it is still a tax.

The difference is, whilst it may seem like a tax, we know that all TV Licensing money goes towards the BBC, whereas your car tax may go towards the NHS or schools, not just roads.
IS
Inspector Sands
TROGGLES posted:

Also anyone who has worked in a PFI or rented office space will know how difficult it can be getting a picture hung on the wall Smile

I wouldn't have thought that The Mailbox is either, no idea about the drama place. Although as has been reported many times, it's often difficult to get simple things done in BBC owned buildings!
IS
Inspector Sands
chris posted:
Mike W posted:

The Licence Fee is not a tax, nobody forces you to pay it, nobody makes you have a TV...


Nobody forces you to buy products, but the VAT on it is still a tax.

The difference is, whilst it may seem like a tax, we know that all TV Licensing money goes towards the BBC, whereas your car tax may go towards the NHS or schools, not just roads.


The main difference is that VAT or income tax is a levy on an existing payment. The TV license or Road Fund/Vehicle License ('Car Tax') is just a payment.

I realise that distinction falls down when it comes to Council Tax though Confused I suspect it was just badly named, its two predecessors didn't use the word 'tax'
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Inspector Sands posted:
TROGGLES posted:

Also anyone who has worked in a PFI or rented office space will know how difficult it can be getting a picture hung on the wall Smile

I wouldn't have thought that The Mailbox is either, no idea about the drama place. Although as has been reported many times, it's often difficult to get simple things done in BBC owned buildings!


There was a possibly apocryphal story that somebody called to get the air con adjusted in a TVC studio they were recording in, and was asked for a room number and was told that it would be sorted some time in the next week.
IS
Inspector Sands
Steve in Pudsey posted:

There was a possibly apocryphal story that somebody called to get the air con adjusted in a TVC studio they were recording in, and was asked for a room number and was told that it would be sorted some time in the next week.

There are loads of similar non-apocryphal stories about air-con and light bulbs etc, mainly from the years since they outsourced facilities management
TR
TROGGLES
Inspector Sands posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:

There was a possibly apocryphal story that somebody called to get the air con adjusted in a TVC studio they were recording in, and was asked for a room number and was told that it would be sorted some time in the next week.

There are loads of similar non-apocryphal stories about air-con and light bulbs etc, mainly from the years since they outsourced facilities management


Thinking about it the situation is the same but the reasons for things not happening have changed. In the old days you couldn't get anything done because of union agreements. The crews would finish at ten and the lights would go off even if you were halfway through a scene. This has gone and been replaced by health and safelty madness.
GE
thegeek Founding member
TROGGLES posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:

There was a possibly apocryphal story that somebody called to get the air con adjusted in a TVC studio they were recording in, and was asked for a room number and was told that it would be sorted some time in the next week.

There are loads of similar non-apocryphal stories about air-con and light bulbs etc, mainly from the years since they outsourced facilities management


Thinking about it the situation is the same but the reasons for things not happening have changed. In the old days you couldn't get anything done because of union agreements. The crews would finish at ten and the lights would go off even if you were halfway through a scene. This has gone and been replaced by health and safelty madness.
What on earth are you talking about? Getting someone from Prem Ops (as was) in to change a light bulb in your office is nothing to do with studio lighting technicians finishing their shift at the time on their rota!
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TROGGLES
thegeek posted:
TROGGLES posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:

There was a possibly apocryphal story that somebody called to get the air con adjusted in a TVC studio they were recording in, and was asked for a room number and was told that it would be sorted some time in the next week.

There are loads of similar non-apocryphal stories about air-con and light bulbs etc, mainly from the years since they outsourced facilities management


Thinking about it the situation is the same but the reasons for things not happening have changed. In the old days you couldn't get anything done because of union agreements. The crews would finish at ten and the lights would go off even if you were halfway through a scene. This has gone and been replaced by health and safelty madness.
What on earth are you talking about? Getting someone from Prem Ops (as was) in to change a light bulb in your office is nothing to do with studio lighting technicians finishing their shift at the time on their rota!


I'm talking generally - the same problems remain the reasons just change.

29 days later

SK
skynewsfreak
There's an artists impression of the complete new newsroom at Broadcasting House in this months newsletter:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/broadcastinghouse/pdf/BH_newsletter_24.pdf

69 days later

DD
DarkestDreams
Meanwhile, the BBC may be planning to vacate the White City office complex. Madness. Surely they need a much larger presence in London that just Broadcasting House?

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