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| "The world's most famous football show. Gary Lineker with the big names and the big games from the Premier League." Source: BBC One |
The government has announced that the current TV licence fee of £159 will increase by £10.50 to £169.50 from next April, a rise of 6.6% - but less than the BBC had anticipated.
The BBC must find £400m in annual savings by 2027/28. In 2023 as part of a drive to save money 1,000 fewer hours of new TV programmes.
Hit in the cuts is a trimmed down Newsnight, one of the more serious programmes among the BBC's deteriorating standards as it seeks to appeal to the lowest common denominator rather than educate people in accordance with its mission to "act in the public interest, serving all audiences through the provision of impartial, high-quality and distinctive output and services which inform, educate and entertain”.
Soccer coverage, by contrast, goes on and on and on with Match of the Day taking centre stage.
Earlier this year it was reported that BBC currently pay £211million to the Premier League for the rights to show the highlights programme every weekend on Saturday night and a repeat on Sunday morning.
Last month the Mail Online reported that the BBC were preparing to open contract talks with Match of the Day presenter, Gary Lineker whose £1.35million-a-year contract expires when the BBC’s existing deal for Premier League highlights runs out at the end of next season,
Apparently the corporation are eager to secure their top-paid presenter despite reports that he has "continued to talk politics, backing pro-Palestine marches since the terrorist attacks in Israel" and "supporting protesters’ right to hold events in London on Armistice Day".
It is a travesty that those of us who have no interest in soccer, and even less in the private opinions of the BBC's overpaid presenters, are forced to pay inflated licence fees for content directed to a specific audience requiring an additional multitude of pundits, reporters and sports correspondents.
The Chief Executive of the English Basketball Association was right to question the amounts of television rights money spent on Soccer as the BBC.
They should let it go or move soccer to a separate pay channel.
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Overpaid, over indulged and licence payers are funding it.
Don't watch TV. Don't have a licence. Why not join the rest of us for whom TV-watching has become a thing of the past?
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DeleteAgreed.
Don't watch BBC and certainly don't watch the crisp salesman.
Nobody is "forced to pay inflated licence fees".
ReplyDeleteOnly watch catch-up TV, don't use iPlayer or watch "live" broadcasts and then no licence is required.
Simples.
Teilo, Domus Alba and 1662 sound a bit like the increasing number of Church=in=Wales congregants attending church but not paying their fees (ie with-holding the odd fiver into the collection plate). Poor performances, loads of repeat sermons, too much costume-drama, overpaid 'hosts', and no Governance. The one thing that BBCTV and the C-in-W have in common was the theme title: 'One Foot in the Grave'. Difference is that BBCTV took it as light-comedy :: the C-in-W is taking it seriously and digging itself deeper.
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@ Old Bill
ReplyDeleteBetter analogy dear Bill would be to compare the C-in-W with Wales's S4C; neither attracting more than probably 1% of the Welsh population to their regular viewing or worship. But particularly two organisations which have seen a mass exodus of staff and talent in recent years and an exploding number of personnel on 'sick leave' (extended in many cases) from mental health stress. S4C now exposed to its 'dictator-like' CEO culture of fear, secrecy and toxic management something which has long since been noted in ++Andrew John's leadership of the Church-in-Wales. And like S4C, a Church-in-Wales in total denial of both its purpose and understanding of financial accounts.
The only difference is that S4C has recognised its failings, taken a grip, and sacked its CEO. Andrew John continues to ponce about without a care in the world as there's no one of seniority who'll dare see him ousted.
The toxic bullying culture in the Cult in Wales has existed for decades with the primary exponent having been byzantine --Bazza Morgan.
DeleteBy what means does one think the chocolate teapot might possibly be ousted?
DeleteCooper, Caiaphas, DodoJo and Pain faced a deluge of complaints and it still took years for them to go, on their terms and with pensions intact.
'Andrew John's leadership'?? Where is the evidence of 'leadership' when he's effectively invisible and we hear nothing from him (like the current absence at Llandaff).
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@ Episkopos.
ReplyDeleteThat's the point. Like Vladimir Putin, he's invincible. And without a jot of intellect in him there's fat chance of him doing a Rowan Williams and heading off to some 'chair' of academia to see out his years. We're stuck with him till he hits 70 at which time - on current form - equally gormless Mary Stallard will become archbishop; the others on the bench ruled out due to age or length of service.
What a terrible prospect for any regeneration of a once proud church.
You seem to miss the point AC.
DeleteYou write of those in "seniority who'll dare to see him ousted" but nobody, senior or otherwise", has the tool(s) to force any such eviction.
The chocolate teapot is not personally invincible but, as has been confirmed many times over, there is no mechanism by which any bishop can be evicted.
I don't think it is quite true, 1662, to say that there is no mechanism by which a bishop can be ousted. If the Diocesan Conference voted that it had no confidence in the bishop, I can't see how the bishop could remain in post.
DeleteThe problem with that is that the bishop usually chairs the standing committee of the Conference, so how would you get the 'no confidence motion' onto the agenda. I am sure that if enough misery areas were to file their dissatisfaction with the bishop, something would have to be done.
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Some excellent news this afternoon as Mark Dripford announces his resignation and good riddance.
DeleteIf only Randy Pandy would do likewise.
Hardly 'excellent news' Cymru'r Groes. Yes, Drakeford further wrecked Wales with his rouge politics and madcap ideas, but which of the even worse candidates from the Welsh Llafur broom-cupboard is likely to sweep up the mess in his place. There isn't one of them leading a portfolio of note - education, health, environment, inward-investment, etc - who deserves to even sit on a local community council. Time to shut the whole Senedd shop down, admit that devolution didn't work (as most of Wales now agrees) and fight for a good and improved deal by re-uniting with Westminster.
ReplyDeleteAgreed entirely.
DeleteIf it was just up to me the disasterous Blair devolution experiment would have been scrapped years ago.
We need to put the homosexuals in charge, that would shake things up and get things done. One of the many things we bring to the world is creativity and energy. Just what the Senedd needs.
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Get a grip Xavier. The Homosexuals are already in charge of the Church-in-Wales and look what's happened to that !!!
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