Do You Agree With The BBC ? This Is Our Money

[Heyesey]

The BBC used to run an excellent series of informational webpages, which appear to have been largely scrapped. I would rather the £500,000 had been used to reinstate the web pages, as I miss them.

 

The people (or at least, some of the people) who run informational webpages as a commercial venture, objected very strongly to the BBC being allowed to do so with public money. It's a distortion on the market.

 

I don't necessarily agree with this argument, but it's the reason those pages aren't there any more. Financial constraints were not the cause.

[scottf]

I'm more concerned with how much it's costing to launch a free news channel for Africa and the Middle East:

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7288062.stm

 

The last time I checked, these countries don't pay any TV licence fees.

 

So who pays the £25 MILLION a year?

 

If its the same as BBC world that is shown in thailand then i would say that it would be paid for by all the adverts that are shown.