As a UK licence fee payer I have no objection to this whatsoever: http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/bbc-trust-approves-bbccom-proposal
There was also a piece in The Times on Monday on the massive losses at BBC World which might be of interest: BBC prepares for cuts but will spare channel you cannot watch The BBC is losing up to £15 million a year on a rolling news channel which is not available in Britain but is being protected from the widespread cuts to be unveiled this week. The BBC is losing up to £15 million a year on a rolling news channel which is not available in Britain but is being protected from the widespread cuts to be unveiled this week. The scale of the losses incurred by BBC World, the BBCs worst performing service, is similar to the savings that the corporations news division is being asked to find, expected to amount to £100 million over six years. The corporation says that BBC World is not dependent on the licence fee and receives no public subsidy or grant, surviving instead on a loan in the low double-figure millions from the corporations commercial division, BBC Worldwide. But the profits of BBC Worldwide are used to fund BBC programmes - £75 million in dividends and £96 million in BBC programmes. John Smith, its chief executive, boasted that the commercial arms profits last year have already helped to reduce the £135.50 colour TV licence by about £9. Full article: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article2658695.ece ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or visit the URL shown above.
