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The Telegraph investigates:

What Lonely Planet is the BBC on?

£100m loss on travel book deal as corporation’s executives ride the gravy train

 

And remember the BBC lost £100 million on its digital media intiative.

And remember it spent £1 billion moving house to Salford.

And remember that the running costs of Salford will be £120 million more than they would have been if they’d stayed put in London up until 2020 if I remember correctly.

 

Not  a bad use of Licence payer’s money…at least £300 million that could have been thrown away making interesting and entertaining programmes.

Speaking of which…..hasn’t been a thing on the BBC that has been worth watching for nearly a week….oh…except ancient repeats of Dad’s Army and the Likely Lads...which I can get on You Tube if I want them….and Top Gear’s getting long in the tooth…but I’ll give ’em Sherlock, that is good.

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8 Responses to Buy Buy Bye

  1. Framer says:
    November 17, 2013 at 1:50 pm

    And one billion quid shipped out of the licence fee straight into the BBC staff pension scheme to block one of its deficit holes. Others remain.

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  3. uncle bup says:
    November 17, 2013 at 6:11 pm

    ;Not a bad use of Licence payer’s money…at least £300 million that could have been thrown away making interesting and entertaining programmes;
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    I never ever buy this argument. ie the just think what else the £300 million could have been spent on argument..

    How’s about not stealing the £300 million from us in the first place then think what *we* could have spent it on, or god forbid put it aside for a rainy day..

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  4. Dave s says:
    November 17, 2013 at 7:05 pm

    The BBc executives make lousy businessmen. They would be out on their ears in a private company.

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  5. Colonel Blimp says:
    November 18, 2013 at 9:01 am

    there is one deal the Beeb managed to pull off well – they offloaded most of BBC Audiobooks to private investors (BBC Worldwide still has a minority stake) to form AudioGo. Having taken the mugs’ money it’s gone bust

    http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Bath-s-AudioGO-makes-dozens-redundant/story-20020175-detail/story.html

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  6. Buster says:
    November 18, 2013 at 5:01 pm

    Lonley Planet was bought by BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm, not funded by the licence fee. Gilligan for some reason or other, I can’t think why, skips over that little detail.

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    • Glenn says:
      November 18, 2013 at 10:00 pm

      Not strictly true.

      BBC Worldwide’s profits go back to the BBC so if they spunk money away, it is money the BBC no longer have.

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