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pcernie
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The BBC is to cut about 200 websites as it reduces the amount of money it spends on its online output. The changes, which will see BBC Online's budget cut by £34m, will also result in the loss of up to 360 posts over the next two years. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12265173Some of the articles are starting to look like Sun castoffs as it is  _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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belchingmatt
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Please let reality shows be in the frontline, please.
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If one is diving so close to the limits that +/- 1% will make a difference then the error has already been made.
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rustybucket
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Amnesia10
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Unfortunately this will be the online content that suffers not the cheap programming we hate.
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l3v1ck
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Amnesia10
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Get amnesia it makes them impossible to watch. You need to remember what happened before to follow. Since I cant do that soap operas never blight my TV schedule.  _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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ProfessorF
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Or, they just get their incredibly wasteful, indulgent, inefficient house in order and start earning the licence fee.
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Amnesia10
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I am not going to disagree, It was more a matter of empire building to justify the license fee. Though the problem is that if they had money left over they would have had to lower the the license fee. Government funding penalises efficiency. There are perverse incentives to not be efficient. If you meet your budget they cut it. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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l3v1ck
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The beeb need to spend just a few pounds on the videos on teh news website. They won't buffer. So on a slow connection they stop-start, stop-start. YouTube etc let the videos buffer before you watch them, so should the BBC.
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belchingmatt
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They are also cutting the World ServiceWhy we have paid for translation into minority languages such as Serbian, Albanian and Macedonian up to now is a mystery to me. Of course it would be nice to pay for translation and dubbing of every BBC service into every language, but at the end of the day somebody has to pay for it.
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ProfessorF
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And to think a friend of a friend went to south africa to do development work on a project that had nothing to do with south africa, but everything to do with 'because I wanted to', all on the beebs tab.
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Amnesia10
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This was originally part of the Foreign Office deal. The FO paid for the World Service but that has now been transferred to the license payer, saving the FO a fortune. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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