cryrst
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The bbc, again.
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Better annuity rates if you smoke.
I'm not sure what to make of this, it could be Mail hyperbole of course.
""The MoS understands that the BBC's huge budget shortfall was only discovered when a new head of finance, Bérangère Michel, was hired earlier this year.""
www.dailymail.com
I mean how can you not notice a missing £500m?
If this is true then they should sack any of the senior management team who are still in place.
""The MoS understands that the BBC's huge budget shortfall was only discovered when a new head of finance, Bérangère Michel, was hired earlier this year.""
BBC4 set for axe in bid to fill broadcaster's £500million funding hole
The BBC is scrambling to make savings after discovering a £500million hole in its budget and has announced a bloodbath of cuts
I mean how can you not notice a missing £500m?
If this is true then they should sack any of the senior management team who are still in place.
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That happened to me when I reviewed a restaurant where I ate faggots. They just couldn't get it.
cryrst
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The pogues did, cheap and lousy 👍😁
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Everyone they sack always retains all of their benefits, plus gets a pay off. The whole country should be demanding Hugh Edward's money back for a start. But he's no where near the only one. The ones that edited the Trump stuff - everybody who is sacked for gross misconduct or rank incompetence. That's a joke on everyone.I'm not sure what to make of this, it could be Mail hyperbole of course.
""The MoS understands that the BBC's huge budget shortfall was only discovered when a new head of finance, Bérangère Michel, was hired earlier this year.""
BBC4 set for axe in bid to fill broadcaster's £500million funding hole
The BBC is scrambling to make savings after discovering a £500million hole in its budget and has announced a bloodbath of cuts
I mean how can you not notice a missing £500m?
If this is true then they should sack any of the senior management team who are still in place.
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It's a shame about BBC 4 which has some watchable music programmes as opposed to their usual drivel.I'm not sure what to make of this, it could be Mail hyperbole of course.
""The MoS understands that the BBC's huge budget shortfall was only discovered when a new head of finance, Bérangère Michel, was hired earlier this year.""
BBC4 set for axe in bid to fill broadcaster's £500million funding hole
The BBC is scrambling to make savings after discovering a £500million hole in its budget and has announced a bloodbath of cuts
I mean how can you not notice a missing £500m?
If this is true then they should sack any of the senior management team who are still in place.
Nearly 600k people did not renew their licence last year. That is double the previous number which had been bumping along in the 200-250k range.
As some of us predicted a tipping point is rapidly coming when people will just simply refuse to pay as that will be millions of people the BBC will be powerless.
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As some of us predicted a tipping point is rapidly coming when people will just simply refuse to pay as that will be millions of people the BBC will be powerless.
Half a million people stopped paying BBC licence fee in the past year
The BBC's new director-general, Matt Brittin, pictured at Wimbledon, has described the broadcaster as facing a 'moment of real jeopardy'.
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THE UK government will do the same as happened in Ireland. Bung the BBC a lorryload of free money. The propaganda-machine will never die out.Nearly 600k people did not renew their licence last year. That is double the previous number which had been bumping along in the 200-250k range.
As some of us predicted a tipping point is rapidly coming when people will just simply refuse to pay as that will be millions of people the BBC will be powerless.
Half a million people stopped paying BBC licence fee in the past year
The BBC's new director-general, Matt Brittin, pictured at Wimbledon, has described the broadcaster as facing a 'moment of real jeopardy'.
Teddy Eagle
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Or get everybody else to bung them a load of money.
Lisa Nandy Says BBC Licence Fee Could Be Paid By Netflix Subcribers
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has said the BBC licence fee could be expanded to subscribers to Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+.
deadline.com
Teddy Eagle
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Not Lineker money but not bad.
www.bbc.co.uk
Scott Mills was highest paid BBC star before sacking, annual report shows
The former Radio 2 breakfast host earned about £745,000 from the BBC in the last financial year.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Or get everybody else to bung them a load of money.
Lisa Nandy Says BBC Licence Fee Could Be Paid By Netflix Subcribers
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has said the BBC licence fee could be expanded to subscribers to Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+.
The issue is it's just not worth paying for. It's a woke propaganda channel and I'm NOT interested in that shite
Either the BBC is paying their stars less or they are getting better at hiding it from the taxpayer.Not Lineker money but not bad.
Scott Mills was highest paid BBC star before sacking, annual report shows
The former Radio 2 breakfast host earned about £745,000 from the BBC in the last financial year.
From the BBC website they really do not get it.
""The BBC is arguing - with some justification - that licence fee payment is down in large part because people aren't consuming live TV in the way they used to. That trend won't reverse. In fact, it will accelerate.""
So let me get this straight. The reason people are not paying the licence fee is because they are not watching the BBC, okay no argument from me there.
""The BBC's licence fee income - the main source of its funding - has remained roughly level since the current charter began in 2017, but the corporation says it has effectively gone down by £1.3bn, or about a quarter, if inflation is taken into account.
That was caused by freezes in the licence fee through some of that period, as well as changes in audience behaviour.""
Oh dear you mean that the BBC is entitled to an ever increasing amount of money from the taxpayer and it's boo hoo because the government restricted it to less than inflation.
""Is this rejection an anti-BBC choice - or a reaction to the fact that, as DG Matt Brittin put it to MPs last week, the licence fee system itself is a "busted flush"? The BBC would argue it's the latter.""
Okay this is the nub. The way the BBC collects the money through the licence fee is the problem. It's not that the public don't love the BBC they just don't love the licence fee. Sorry I don't agree many of the public don't watch or love the BBC and don't see why they should pay for something they don't use. If the BBC made programs the public wanted people would pay the licence fee. Sky, Netflix, Disney don't force people to use their services.
What the BBC is really complaining about is that the licence fee comes with a loophole allowing misguided individuals to opt out. No the BBC wants to close that option and reduce the costs of enforcing the licence fee and also stop by taking poor single women to court (not good for the optics).
I believe the BBC's preferred method is a compulsory tax on broadband (all users) which would be great (for the BBC) as it would mean that BT, Sky and Virgin would become their tax collectors. Nice work if you can get it.
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I watched a piece on it on the Northern Ireland news which explained that they do not declare wages paid by independent production companies that they use. This would include people like Claudia Winkelman and all the Strictly people. I'd have to think they'd be getting more than what is disclosed. So, yes, hiding it.
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I agree.
BBC 1 2 and 3 need to keep up with the modern streaming world. That is where the savings are required, especially 3 which is a woke yoof station with no viewers. Kept alive in preference for wholly DEI reasons.
But BBC 4 is something no corporate broadcaster would do, like 6 Music or (especially) the World Service. I happily pay the license fee for them.
Moonlighting presenters face cuts to salaries, BBC chairman warns
Chairman Samir Shah said bosses will now take presenters' lucrative external work into account during salary reviews.
Not sure I agree with this.
I do think the BBC over pays their presenters compared to other channels. However people have a right to maximise their earnings. If the BBC allows their staff to freelance (my company didn't) then what they earn has nothing to do with their BBC salary.
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Wisbech Eagle
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The licence fee is not a tax and nor would anything that replaced it be.
Taxes are raised by governments to pay for those things we ask them to do.
The BBC has always been deliberately kept separate from any government influence.
Whatever you think of its output its independence is precious. It is free both of government and commercial pressure to tell the truth as it sees it. That matters and it’s worth paying for. By all of us. No opt outs just because you find the analysis annoying.
A broadcasting levy on everyone supplying content, whether streamed, delivered by satellite, cable or aerial who do so commercially, makes sense. The funds raised to pay for non commercial public broadcasters, like the BBC.