Is the BBC concentrating on too-much off-screen activity?

PE

Pete Founding member 4 September 2005 6:27pm

Inspector Sands posted:

noggin posted:

The Dutch cable companies pay the BBC for rights to re-broadcast BBC One and Two. Until relatively recently these were picked up off-air from large aerial arrays (in a similar way to the Channel Islands at that time) These days the BBC One and Two feeds are from DSat receivers - hence the skeleton text service that was re-introduced.

It's also the reason why someone set up http://www.ceefax.tv/
Although if you have acess to the internet, why you'd want Ceefax when you can get the information on BBC Online I have no idea

well I use it for this
http://www.ceefax.tv/txtmaster.php?channel=bbc1&fontsize=2&search_string=523&search_page=Search+Page

IS

Inspector Sands 4 September 2005 6:28pm

[quote="Charlie Wells"]How about this for a use of the licence fee, taken from MediaGuardian...
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1560071,00.html

Quote:

BBC spends �11.8m on taxis
/quote]

Well unless you want the BBC to start up at 8am and go off air at 10:30pm.... then it is necessary spending. Most of the cabs are hired to get staff to and from BBC premises safely and effeciently at times when they wouldn't be able to in other ways

TR

TROGGLES 4 September 2005 6:32pm

As I understand it they were going to spend about �30 million on Pebble Mill to upgrade it both the fabric of the building & technically. It needed insulating & double glazing to bring it up to spec. Either way the overheads were always going to work out cheaper by staying put. It was a very strange decision to move to the shoebox and badly thought through for which the Beeb are still paying. Presumably thats why they are taking a bit more care with Manchester

(August 2005)