BBC confirms badger cuts

PostRe: BBC confirms budget cuts by **Igor** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 11:08 pm

Meep wrote:Bloody Strictly Come Dancing is actually getting more money! There is justice.

PostRe: BBC confirms badger cuts by **Skippy** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 11:09 pm

Exxy wrote:Just keep 6music safe, that's all I ask for

This.

PostRe: BBC confirms budget cuts by **Shadow** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 12:06 am

Monkey Man wrote:
All new daytime programming will shift to BBC One, with BBC Two showcasing repeats of peak-time programmes.

The BBC HD channel will close and be replaced with a single version of BBC Two in high definition.

No HD coverage of new BBC1 shows then? Very strange.

They already have a BBC1 HD, this is saying that their other HD channel, BBC HD is going to be replaced by a BBC2 HD. It's almost BBC2 HD anyway the schedule of BBC2 and BBC HD are about 75% the same.

I'd much rather they increased the license fee tbh, I love the Beeb.

PostRe: BBC confirms badger cuts by **Dowbocop** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 12:30 am

I've always maintained that you should only criticise the BBC's output if your household pays the licence fee, but I wonder how much of that £123M on licence fee collection costs was spent on threatening letters going to people who have already paid, or some other bureaucratic nonsense.

PostRe: BBC confirms badger cuts by **Winckle** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 3:07 am

Lucien wrote:Aside from the job losses - good news.

The BBC is far, far bigger than it needs to be. In a world of evolving choice the BBC is a dinosaur.

And yet, as far as terrestrial programming goes, it's by far the best. Commercial television is a vast wasteland.

PostRe: BBC confirms badger cuts by **Spindash** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 9:02 am

Meep wrote:
Lotus wrote:
15% reduction in sport budget.

http://i.imgur.com/7Rbp1.gif

Why not 100%? Well, it's still progress of a kind I suppose.

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Exxy wrote:Just keep 6music safe, that's all I ask for

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Local radio sports coverage is one of their best services. Mess with it at your peril.

PostRe: BBC confirms badger cuts by **Rex Kramer** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 9:21 am

If those numbers are correct then £26m on CBeebies is very, very good business. And BBC4 should definitely be kept. Radio 3 takes an awful lot of money to run though, but as I'm not a listener then that might affect my idea of value.

All in all, the beeb does a fantastic job. Maybe they should be considering generating income from their digital services (website, iplayer etc)?

PostRe: BBC confirms badger cuts by **IGM** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 9:29 am

Cbeebies is great - there are some amazing shows on there that I would have lapped up as a kid. The intro to In the Night Garden actually makes me feel really nostalgic for my childhood and the TV I would have watched back then.

And they've just started with the Adventures of Abney and Teal by the same folk which is so charming.

I watch these with my son, obviously :shifty:

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