Glastonbury coverage on the BBC

i would be really interested if the BBC ever calculated their per head spend in each of the nations. on the face of it, with no calculations to back this up, it would seem the nations are already doing pretty well in comparison to the english regions when you add up the tailored services they receive.

i'm not saying there aren't arguments for this - but i don't get the notion that the beeb neglects any of the nations. in fact, if i were to expect any part of the country to be upset, it'd be the english regions (outside of london and manchester) who are losing productions to wales and scotland, in order that the beeb can achieve the out of england targets.

I know that Casualty is moving from Bristol to Cardiff - but are any other non-Manchester, non-London programmes moving from England to the Nations? Have Birmingham or Bristol also lost some commissions to the nations (other than Casualty)?

BBC Birmingham gained The Chelsea Flower Show from Events in London - now part of Entertainment - this year, and gained Points of View and the Sky at Night a few years ago - also from London. (Sadly Chelsea went from HD to SD as well - though I think that was a BBC HD priority thing...)

London has lost Crimewatch to Cardiff, Newsnight Review and Weakest Link to Glasgow, and two entire departments (Sport and CBBC) to Salford.

Bristol and Birmingham have a reasonable factual slate and Birmingham has some drama - though there has also been a commitment to beef up productions in new genres in Belfast and Glasgow.

Where the Beeb do have an English regional hole is between Manchester and Glasgow - with no in-house productions (apart from Super League and an unusual daytime commission out of Leeds) between Manchester and Glasgow - but that has been the case for many, many years. (Newcastle was supposed to be a kids production centre - but apart from resourcing Byker Grove - which was an indie - that didn't really happen after an initial flurry)