Re: [Swprograms] OT: International bbc.com to have advertising

[Kevin Anderson <k9iua@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <softbulletin1@xxxxxxxxx> 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
> BBC?s worst performing service, is similar to the
> savings that the corporation?s 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 corporation?s
> 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 arm?s 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
> 
> 
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