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(January 2009)

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SH
Showbizguru
Inspector Sands posted:
Showbizguru posted:

I take your point - I just think it inherently bizarre that the BBC receives huge Government funding,


The World Service recieves government funding, the BBC we get here doesn't


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Anyway who knows the BBC well knows that it is massively overstaffed - you've only got to attend an average news conference to see two or three different BBC crews there getting the same soundbites.


That's mostly a myth, you might get more than one reporter but that's often for good reason. News programem budgets are being squeezed and squeezed, they certainly don't spend money un-necessarily. Most of the BBC especially the news is not massively overstaffed


Of course the BBC we receive here gets Government funding - it's called the licence fee !
MD
mdtauk
With each reporter only getting one chance to question, surely having more than one for different bulletins/programmes means more questions asked?
IS
Inspector Sands
Showbizguru posted:

Of course the BBC we receive here gets Government funding - it's called the licence fee !


That's public funding, not government funding.... it doesn't go anywhere near the government
SH
Showbizguru
Inspector Sands posted:
Showbizguru posted:

Of course the BBC we receive here gets Government funding - it's called the licence fee !


That's public funding, not government funding.... it doesn't go anywhere near the government


And who sets the licence fee thereby deciding how much funding the BBC will get ?
IS
Inspector Sands
Showbizguru posted:
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And who sets the licence fee thereby deciding how much funding the BBC will get ?


The government do, but that's irrelevant... they do not supply the funding.

Government sanctioned, yes but not government funding!
IS
Inspector Sands
More Jonathan Ross scandal in The Mirror: Rolling Eyes

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/columnists/polly/2009/01/29/jonathan-ross-is-to-blame-for-everything-ever-115875-21079066/
PE
Pete Founding member
Inspector Sands posted:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/columnists/polly/2009/01/29/jonathan-ross-is-to-blame-for-everything-ever-115875-21079066/


heheheh.
JO
Johnny83
Inspector Sands posted:


Laughing Nice to see the Mirror parodying The Daily Hate
SH
Showbizguru
Inspector Sands posted:
Showbizguru posted:
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And who sets the licence fee thereby deciding how much funding the BBC will get ?


The government do, but that's irrelevant... they do not supply the funding.

Government sanctioned, yes but not government funding!


So what you're saying is that it's not government funded but the amount that the BBC receives IS controlled by Government.
Which basically means the BBC is ultimately at the political beck and call of whichever Government is in power.
But it's not Government funded.
Er ...right.
JO
Johnny83
Showbizguru posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
Showbizguru posted:
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And who sets the licence fee thereby deciding how much funding the BBC will get ?


The government do, but that's irrelevant... they do not supply the funding.

Government sanctioned, yes but not government funding!


So what you're saying is that it's not government funded but the amount that the BBC receives IS controlled by Government.
Which basically means the BBC is ultimately at the political beck and call of whichever Government is in power.
But it's not Government funded.
Er ...right.


We pay a licence fee, which in turn gets passed onto the BBC. The government limits the costs so that the BBC don't raise it to a ridiculously high amount (like Sky could), which I doubt the BBC would do anyway.
IS
Inspector Sands
Showbizguru posted:

So what you're saying is that it's not government funded but the amount that the BBC receives IS controlled by Government.


It's set by a government department

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Which basically means the BBC is ultimately at the political beck and call of whichever Government is in power.


Not really, Politicians don't lower and raise the amount according to how nice the Beeb has been to them - the decision is made infrequently.

Apart from that the BBC is no more at the beck and call of the government than the other state owned broadcaster

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But it's not Government funded.
Er ...right.


Yes, right! 'Government Funded' means that the money comes from the government coffers

The money that pays for the BBC's UK channels comes from the license fee which comes from the public. The money is collected by a company called Capita and then given straight to the BBC. Therefore the domestic BBC is publicly funded.

The World service is government funded but that's because it is run on their behalf
SH
Showbizguru
I wonder if the people ringing up in support of Carol Thatcher are - like me - infuriated at the BBC's pathetic double standards over her and Mr Ross.
It would seem so.
This from the MediaGuardian

The BBC has received more than 2,200 complaints over its decision to drop Carol Thatcher after she referred to a professional tennis player as a "golliwog".

The corporation said today it had so far logged 2,245 complaints against the decision to sack Thatcher, while it has received 60 calls and emails supporting its decision.

Thatcher, the daughter of former prime minister Lady Thatcher, was dropped as a roving reporter on BBC1's The One Show on Tuesday night after refusing to make a full public apology over the remark made in the show's backstage green room.

Her spokeswoman said it was an off-the-cuff remark made "in jest".[/B]

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