More than £3.6bn a year now floods in to the grubby palms of the overpaid executives who supposedly manage the BBC. The licence fee has gone up over the past five years by almost 15% to £142.50. But spending on new shows is plummeting, a survey by Ofcom has found. It has dropped from 65% of revenues in 1998 to only 56% now, and over the past three years, the amount of money spent on first-run programming on BBC 1 has fallen by 10% and that on BBC2 by 15%. By contrast, Ofcom found , spending in the same period by commercial television companies on their programmes increased, despite the recession.
No prizes for guessing where the cash has gone: into the bloated pay packets of the propagandists who call themselves journalists and programme-makers.
Somehow the BBC manages to disgust and shock at every level imaginable.
The days are numbered for this vile, smug, hypocritical racket.
I had posted a link to this article yesterday – hopefully it will do further damage to the idea that the BBC is an institution to be preserved and cosseted.
One major way the BBC has wasted money rather than spending on programming was on the bloated BBC website – with all those warped and biased stories, all the editing-out of anything unfavourable to the groupthink favourite causes, all the rigged “have your say” sessions.
The website should be sharply pruned – far sharper than is currently intended.
And , I suspect, “contracting out ” programme-making.
“It’s a blah, blah,blah production for the BBC ” etc.
Shsss…. you know who
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/secret-bbc-job-contracts-worth-10-million-pounds/story-e6frg996-1225892050126
Good link, so many “executives” are kept off the payroll by being paid as “contractors”. I wonder which government the BBC learnt that trick from ?
This is where a goodly chunk of your TV taxation is squandered
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/15/bbc-expenses-world-cup-final
Questions being asked, and, now, in quite unexpected places.
Amazing story. FIFA invite Mark Byford to the World Cup final
(why ? ) . He goes to represent the BBC ( why ? ). And charges £5000 expenses to the BBC. Tough job , but someone has to do it.
It’s all middle management and compliance officers. And who knows how much they’ve been spending on all these office moves, not to mention how much larger the contingent is at sporting events and Glastonbury. I’d be interested to see how much the BBC spends and how much staff they use on the Proms as opposed to Glasto or the World Cup. The Proms doesn’t even rate a mention on the BBC’s own page about what music festivals their covering this year.
David,
The BBC have been dumbing down the Proms for years. I am sure they would like to ditch it completely if they could get away with it. Now is probably a chance for them to cut back and claim they are making cuts in this age of austerity.
Oh and , I forgot to mention, the Proms are elitist.
MARR.
More utopian nonsense from BBC’s Marr, propagandising for a permanent, publicly subsidised, self-serving BBC:
[Extract]:-
“In all this, what really matters? Diversity. Fairness. And above all, paying for professional, invigilated and monitored journalism. Reporting has worked hard to get its current low reputation.”
Not least at the BBC: end the BBC’s expoitation of the licencepayers now!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10634304
‘Now “they” have got me … In a recent piece in the Guardian,’
The irony inherent in that not lost.
One wonders to what extent the mods have been busy ensuring any comments conform to the narrative, and hence cementing the BBC’s low reputation as nothing more than a bloated propagandist serving the interests of a small minority based on a truly unique funding system
“BBC boss Mark Byford’s £5,000 World Cup weekend”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1295007/BBC-boss-Mark-Byfords-5-000-World-Cup-weekend.html#ixzz0tnDfyqnS