Call them "sponsors" and you can say that the U.S. PBS (and NPR for that matter) has had commercials and advertisers for a long time. And we even get to see these advertisements within our own country, both on the tellie and on the website <grin>.
Kevin Anderson --- Mike Barraclough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > -- ------------------------------------- Kevin Anderson, Dubuque IA USA, K9IUA k9iua (at) yahoo (dot) com http://postoilgeography.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.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.
