The Tea Makers Truth Farm

1. Anonymous
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   http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/business/media/03bbc.html

   The British Broadcasting Corp., facing complaints from commercial rivals who say public funding gives it an unfair advantage in expanding online, proposed sweeping cuts Tuesday that include a 25 percent reduction in spending on its Web site.

   In a strategic review, the BBC also proposed shutting several radio stations, reducing spending for rebroadcasts in Britain of American television series, and limiting spending on sporting events, among other things.
2. Anonymous
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   Radio 6 for youf' And the Digital "Asian Network" for South Asians (East Indians) in about 5 languages and English) to be cut.

   Ratings for Radio 6 are abyssmal, on a par with CBC's Radio 2

   But read "What do we want from the BBC?" http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/mar/01/bbc

   ..." Twenty-four years ago, the respected media correspondent Michael
   Leapman published a book called The Last Days of the Beeb. Leapman had
   contributed to BBC shows for years and knew its internal culture
   well. By 1986, he found "an institution in disarray".

   BBC programmes, he wrote, "are seldom sold to the American networks".
   The corporation was run by "gifted amateurs". It was "enfeebled by a
   chronic lack of purpose". Above all, "The Beeb can find no effective
   defence . . . against a [Conservative] government ideologically
   opposed to the concept of a publicly funded corporation." Leapman
   quoted one of the milder members of the Thatcher administration,
   Douglas Hurd: "The more variety of broadcasting there is . . . the
   more tatty the present licence-fee system looks. We have not ruled out
   any potential form for future financing."

   Of course it is the direction of the compulsory licence fee
   that is the issues there.

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