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Charles Stuart: Interesting comments. You don't seems to have saved much money, however!
"The Voice, Strictly Come Dancing" aren't reality shows. They are Light Entertainment. Wikipedia says Reality television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reality television "unscripted situations and actual occurrences" with "previously unknown cast".
I think you might be confusing "formulaic" with "reality TV".
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Ian: I've written a couple of articles about this
In What could happen to Freeview if Scotland voted to become independent? | Freeview news | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice I said
"About 9.2% of UK households are in Scotland: whilst £320 million sounds like a lot of money, it is only enough to fund a BBC One budget channel for three months a year.
The 230 mast network belongs to Arqiva and would continue to do so. It is worth noting that is an extensive network for the 2.4m homes in Scotland. The costs of distribution are high in Scotland as it has one third of the UK land-mass, but 8.4% of the population.
Taking the current £222m a year the BBC spends on distribution, 6% of the budget. If we assume that this is a cost per mast, then this works out at £2.48 in England, £8.07 in Scotland, £12.49 in Wales and £4.72 in Northern Ireland.
This would make the BBC Scotland distribution budget £43m a year, or 14% of the £320 from a Scottish Licence Fee!. This could be a low estimate: BBC Radio Scotland takes 3.2m a year for distribution, which is 60% of the costs of each UK wide radio service.
I looked at the An Independent Scot would still be able to watch the BBC on satellite, surely? | Freesat | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice issue
"The result would be that Scottish Sky and Freesat viewers would have to resort to the "other channels" menus on their boxes, and not have the ability to record programmes automatically on Sky+/Sky+HD."
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michael: I suspect you'd be shocked to hear that "upper echelon salaries" accounts for, according to http://downloads.bbc.co.u….pdf ... £5.6m (plus £1.1 for a few "compensation for loss of office") [1]
So, you've saved £5.6 million. And the other £394,600,000 is going to come from where?
I don't think turning off a few montors in the newsroom (which are there to be .. monitored: or are the artifice to show that BBC News is awake all the time) are going to make it.
[1] BBC - Inside the BBC - Executive Board Senior Management
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Rob: "However, on Saturday night the BBC denied the claim."
Seems that it's not even "gossip".
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Charles Stuart: Sorry to jump in here, but I think you haven't quite grasped the rebuttal to your point about "during school hours".
If you have a look at School Holidays and Term Dates 2014-2015 you will see that each bit of the UK has wildy different school holidays. It's almost impossible to pick a date and say that's it is not a school holiday somewhere in the Kingdom.
In addition, what about kids who are off sick? I recall having several long periods off sick from school (german measles, mumps etc). Are you going to insist that sick children can't watch TV?
Seems very uncharitable of you.
As four your rather odd Soviet comments about actors pay: I'm guessing you've not heard of PACT Home - Pact or Equity Home - Equity ?
Also, I'm guessing you don't know of the WOCC either
"The independent quota remains legally binding on the BBC - written into the Communications Act, and into the BBC's "agreement" with the government."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comm…html
"How Big is The WoCC?
Overall, the WoCC is 25% of our total programme needs and represents about £250m of our business.
In some genres it is higher than others.
This 25% is over and above our commitments to in-house production and the 25% guaranteed to the independent sector. "
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MikeB/Ian: I suspect that Sky Subscriber Service Ltd are very hopeful that the BBC would become a subscription service, as they are in the business of subscriber management.
Well, you would, wouldn't you?
Of course, the law could be changed to ensure that the BBC has (given the recent "retransmission fees" fiasco) zero-fee access to the system.
This would be especially true if the BBC was moved from the status of Public Corporation to one of a Charity.
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Rob: It's used for getting the correct channels on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,8 and 34.
If you live somewhere you can get different versions of BBC One, BBC Two, ITV/STV/UTV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and local TV stations, your box will ask you which you want to prioritize.
The channels you want go on the numbers listed, the other versions go on the 800-899 channel range.
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Margaret Henderson: It's could be a new 4G signal. However, as you have a communal aerial system, you need to contact whoever manages it for you and ask them to investigate.
There's nothing you can do yourself in this situation: any filter needs to be fitted to the system's aerial.
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Sunday 9 March 2014 7:51PM
(FYI, I have made improvements to my text )