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| Author: | pcernie [ Mon Jan 24, 2011 1:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | BBC to cut online budget by 25% |
The BBC is to cut about 200 websites as it reduces the amount of money it spends on its online output. The changes, which will see BBC Online's budget cut by £34m, will also result in the loss of up to 360 posts over the next two years. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12265173 Some of the articles are starting to look like Sun castoffs as it is 
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| Author: | belchingmatt [ Mon Jan 24, 2011 1:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: BBC to cut online budget by 25% |
Please let reality shows be in the frontline, please. |
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| Author: | rustybucket [ Mon Jan 24, 2011 3:22 pm ] | |||||||||
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And soap operas. |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Mon Jan 24, 2011 3:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: BBC to cut online budget by 25% |
Unfortunately this will be the online content that suffers not the cheap programming we hate. |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:28 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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I hate soap operas. |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:48 pm ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Get amnesia it makes them impossible to watch. You need to remember what happened before to follow. Since I cant do that soap operas never blight my TV schedule. 
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Tue Jan 25, 2011 12:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: BBC to cut online budget by 25% |
Or, they just get their incredibly wasteful, indulgent, inefficient house in order and start earning the licence fee. |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Tue Jan 25, 2011 12:49 am ] | |||||||||
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I am not going to disagree, It was more a matter of empire building to justify the license fee. Though the problem is that if they had money left over they would have had to lower the the license fee. Government funding penalises efficiency. There are perverse incentives to not be efficient. If you meet your budget they cut it. |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: BBC to cut online budget by 25% |
The beeb need to spend just a few pounds on the videos on teh news website. They won't buffer. So on a slow connection they stop-start, stop-start. YouTube etc let the videos buffer before you watch them, so should the BBC. |
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| Author: | belchingmatt [ Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: BBC to cut online budget by 25% |
They are also cutting the World Service Why we have paid for translation into minority languages such as Serbian, Albanian and Macedonian up to now is a mystery to me. Of course it would be nice to pay for translation and dubbing of every BBC service into every language, but at the end of the day somebody has to pay for it. |
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: BBC to cut online budget by 25% |
And to think a friend of a friend went to south africa to do development work on a project that had nothing to do with south africa, but everything to do with 'because I wanted to', all on the beebs tab. |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:53 am ] | |||||||||
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This was originally part of the Foreign Office deal. The FO paid for the World Service but that has now been transferred to the license payer, saving the FO a fortune. |
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