20% cuts at BBC

The ludicrous fees they paid for F1 have made the Beeb look like prats and now they're having to cut back on all their other sports coverage.
Personally I think they should have just got rid of BBC3 and saved themselves over £100m. Its a completely pointless channel.

Bit of a worry, they could really cut back now on their extensive racing coverage

Who will they get rid off Claire or Willie or perhaps Rishi?

If they get rid of 20% of Willy, he's going to need a bigger box.

All 3 of them. They are all useless. Rishi Persad. WHY OH WHY does he get employed to present Horse Racing programmes? My winnets know more about racing than him.

He could always stand on his wallet di

As mainly a racing rugby and cricket fan these cuts on sport will not affect me because the Beeb all but got rid of them

Didnt know they still showed sport....what will they cut back? darts?

shame , i would like to give the BBC 20% more ,

especially to the directors and all earning over 100k , they deserve it

About time they closed the whole corporation!

DrWhom     06 Oct 11 13:31 

Personally I think they should have just got rid of BBC3



"Hear, hear" a zillion times over.  I generally love the Beeb but by god I wish I could get back the part of my licence fee that pays for that shower.

Chris Hollins can go for starters

They paid Jonathan Woss £18m, for a 3 year contract, to buy his loyalty.
When his contract ended, he repaid their loyalty, by kicking them in the nuts, and going to other channels.
My dad used to say,"it's easy to spend other peoples (tv licence payers) money.
If them at the top, had to fight tooth and nail, for funds, like private enterprise has to do, I'm sure they would spend more wisely.

'About time they closed the whole corporation! '


Nooooooooo. Telly anywhere else in the World i've been to is ******* awful. Long live the BBC.

They could all take a 50% deduction in their salary and still be well paid.

I bet if they advertised for staff at half the present salary they would be overrun with applicants.

how much do they waste on that stupid Jeremy Clarkson..that top gear programme must cost a fortune

You're miles out there, mick.....i believe they sell Top Gear around the World for £$£$£$$£....just about the Beebs most profitable show.

Top Gear was BBC Worldwide's biggest-selling TV show internationally last year and – alongside its fellow mega-brands Doctor Who, BBC Earth and Lonely Planet – helped earn more than £200m in revenue and more than £40m in profits.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/06/top-gear-bbc-worldwide-profit

dont care have not paid licence for over 20 years and dont watch bbc anyway just download all my programes from bit torent and watch sky

Get rid of BBC 4  .............................get around 28 viewers watching some posh bloke tossing him self off ( so i have been told )

BBC4 is an EXCELLENT Channel

Us 'posh blokes' enjoy immensely the interesting historic 'looking back' type programmes - along with other modern day enlightening documentaries.

Far better than all that 'Reality TV' tosh.

onlooker
06 Oct 11 15:30 Joined: 18 Feb 03 | Topic/replies: 4,892 | Blogger: onlooker's blog
BBC4 is an EXCELLENT Channel

Us 'posh blokes' enjoy immensely the interesting historic 'looking back' type programmes - along with other modern day enlightening documentaries.

Far better than all that 'Reality TV' tosh.




Sure veiwing figures back you up

viewing

'Sure veiwing figures back you up '


Well, there's Onlooker and I versus yrself, so i'd say yeah, 2-1.

Doesn't most of the Sports budget go on Lineker, Hanson and Shearer? How many people still watch football highlights and do they watch just because those three are on? Unfortuntely, some of them are on long-term contracts but once they are up...

They are cutting back but have decided to spend millions moving to Salford & closing the BBC Centre at Wood lane which makes no sense under the circumstances imo.

What will the effects of the cuts on Willy Carson...will he loose his box to stand on when standing next to Claire Balding

What will the effects of the cuts on Willy Carson...will he loose his box to stand on when standing next to Claire Balding

BBC4 is excellent

pumphol.
06 Oct 11 15:45 Joined: 29 Jul 04 | Topic/replies: 16,616 | Blogger: pumphol.'s blog
They are cutting back but have decided to spend millions moving to Salford & closing the BBC Centre at Wood lane which makes no sense under the circumstances imo.
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Will have something to do with what they can sell the land in London for and also they can pay less wages in manchester ......................makes perfect sense

stop paying feckers who make a packet out of the exposure they get  , its a disgrace

Have you been to the BBC Centre at Wood Lane, an updated version of that in Manchester is costing how much to build
Though do  not know any figures so maybe you have a point

pumphol.
06 Oct 11 15:53 Joined: 29 Jul 04 | Topic/replies: 16,617 | Blogger: pumphol.'s blog
Have you been to the BBC Centre at Wood Lane, an updated version of that in Manchester is costing how much to build
Though do  not know any figures so maybe you have a point





So you reckon in the long run of paying much less wages , and the money from the sale of the land in London where old site is wouldn't make sense ?

it MUST be cost effective...cant think of any other reason why they would move from London to Manc....and i live in Manc

Nothing wrong with BBC4 some exellent crime thrillers can get rid of BBC3 though waste of time.

get rid of both and get back to just bbc 1 bbc 2 and itv like the good old days .

No reality tv and just grandstand and world of sport[;)]

Would you like to buy a second-hand Morris 1100, macca007 ?

onlooker
06 Oct 11 16:01 Joined: 18 Feb 03 | Topic/replies: 4,894 | Blogger: onlooker's blog
Would you like to buy a second-hand Morris 1100, macca007 ?




Only if it was previous owner of a vicars wife who used it to go to the shops once a week and it isn't red[;)]

When the "middle class" get too fat,this is what happens...

reported in the paper that Hanson was on 2 million a year contract. I make that £38,461 a week, if you think he's worth that much you must be not have a grasp on reality.

The BBC should concentrate on quality and not chase ratings with clones of what is available elsewhere.

Very true^.Appease everyone and satisfies no one.sad and boring IMHO.

Busvaldo
06 Oct 11 16:23 Joined: 27 Feb 05 | Topic/replies: 325 | Blogger: Busvaldo's blog
Very true^.Appease everyone and satisfies no one.sad and boring IMHO.




This day and age money is everything , nice to do what you say but in real life it won't work

Same as the economy though Macca,spent ridiculous amounts on their internet service when times were good and didn't think about the future.Remind you of anyone?

Waste Of The Day:
How the BBC squanders £2,000 a week on taxis to chauffeur Alan Shearer and Co hundreds of miles home from Match Of The Day

By Paul Revoir and Paul Sims

MailOnline - news, sport

The BBC spends more than £2,000 a week on taxis driving its big-name Match of the Day pundits between studios in London and their homes in northern England.

In yet another example of the corporation's extravagant spending, former footballers Alan Shearer, Alan Hansen and Mark Lawrenson are regularly chauffeured home to the North East and Merseyside at the expense of the licence fee payer.

Rather than saving money by taking a train and staying overnight in the capital, the pundits are driven hundreds of miles once the show finishes recording at BBC Television Centre in Shepherd's Bush in West London, every Saturday night.
hansen
shearer

Match of the Day pundits Alan Hansen and Alan Shearer are often chauffeured to their homes in the north of England at the expense of the licence fee payer

They are often also driven south to record the programme earlier in the afternoon  -  and have received the same door-to-door service on occasion for events like England or FA Cup matches.

Receipts seen by the Daily Mail show that it costs £580 to drive Alan Shearer the almost 300 miles one way from London to his house near Newcastle.

In the case of Alan Hansen, whose home is more than 200 miles from the capital in Merseyside, the leaked receipts show the trip costs around £470 one way. Fares for Mark
pugh

Lawrenson, who lives near former Liverpool team-mate Hansen, would come to a similar amount, although the BBC says the pair often share a cab.

If all three are driven both ways on a particular Saturday, the total bill comes to more than £2,000  -  even when Hansen and Lawrenson share.

Busvaldo
06 Oct 11 16:31 Joined: 27 Feb 05 | Topic/replies: 327 | Blogger: Busvaldo's blog
Same as the economy though Macca,spent ridiculous amounts on their internet service when times were good and didn't think about the future.Remind you of anyone?



Agreed mate , but that is why they are moving up north ( far cheaper in costs )

And all the big guns like Wossy are being seen off .......BBC seen the light

Only because of the cards they were dealt Macca,no more no less.

Busvaldo
06 Oct 11 16:36 Joined: 27 Feb 05 | Topic/replies: 328 | Blogger: Busvaldo's blog
Only because of the cards they were dealt Macca,no more no less.



Days of decent telly long gone when Sky came online ..............too much to chose from resulting in broadcasters just putting any tripe on

It's like anything though,you have to move with the times,live in a bubble and it will bite you on the arse.

Busvaldo
06 Oct 11 16:41 Joined: 27 Feb 05 | Topic/replies: 329 | Blogger: Busvaldo's blog
It's like anything though,you have to move with the times,live in a bubble and it will bite you on the arse.





At the moment we have a country full of Jim Royle's all sat on there arses watching TV  all day ..............................in conclusion the country is fecked

When you have people like Busvaldo and Macca in this world i am full of hope.Do i sound like David Cameron?

Busvaldo
06 Oct 11 16:46 Joined: 27 Feb 05 | Topic/replies: 331 | Blogger: Busvaldo's blog
When you have people like Busvaldo and Macca in this world i am full of hope.Do i sound like David Cameron?




No Boris Johnson[;)]

They have many examples of duplicting reports for different programmes eg 5 Live flew a presenter to Japan for two days to report on the earth quake just for a R5 programme.

Too fat^

fookin hate the bbc and their extortionate licence fee
wish the government would just pull the plug and let them pay for themselves like other broadcasters have to

simple juyst avolid paying for it its easy i have for 20 years just dontv answer my door to anyone not invited and ignore all letters

Apparently all the leaders of the BNP do not pay the license fee.

According to their thinking the BBC license fee is illegal within the EU competition rules. If they took them to the european court the BBC would lose the case so they don't prosecute anyone that knows the rules. I'ts only mug like us they persecute but if you have enough cash they would not dare take you to court.

happy to pay it just to be ad-free, particularly the radio....absolutely hate ads on radio

would not bother me if the bbc disapeared completely overnight in fact I would be glad
plenty of good TV on sky and the other channels.not that I watch that much anyway tbh apart from the sport and there is precious little of that on the bbc these days
as regards ads on radio they are annoying but the bbc advertise their own programmes all the time and they are often just as annoying as any commercial ad.

How much does Claire get per appearance.

They will want an all labour panel on question time every week now

Have I missed a reply,  but surely the MOTD shower must go.     ONly recently realised they were actually being paid.    Had assumed it was some sort of self-accreditation exercise to keep them in the "limelight".

GO for Gods sake GO.

Question Time is from SALFORD, tonight.

They've moved already.

Funny how there is uproar when a food company resizes a product, yet the company cuts 20% yet we still pay the same price!!!

Tesco,really?