BBC Sport budget cut by £35m

I noticed that the Beeb had lost The Open coverage as well (it'll be Sky and all the intrusive adverts from next year).

Won't be the same without Peter Alliss' understated commentary.

 

Hope we see a bloody reduction in License fee then! Sport's the only thing worth watching on the beeb

 

They should scrap Radio 3 which has a large budget with almost no listeners.

Also: sack Swanny.

 

The BBC needs a complete overhaul, as with most public organisations it is poorly managed and terribly inefficient with money.

Its a shame some of the sport budget has to be cut as its just about the only thing I use the BBC for but at least its a step in the right direction.

 

Whilst you may be right the current shortfall is caused by a reduction in income from the sale of licences with many using the catch-up facility rather than watching live tv. Solution make all users buy a licence whether it's live tv or catch-up. Also didn't the government load the cost of licences for over 75's onto the BBC rather than the government ?

 

The BBC is appalling value for money. Get bloody adverts on if it stops them fleecing us for third rate bilge.

 

I see Murdoch's plans are all coming to fruition then. The BBC in ruins and a virtual monoply for Sky, despite all his protestations about the superiority of competition and the 'market' What complete a******es that man and his family are.

 

This is the first bit of collateral damage from their ridiculous and short sighted sacking of Jezza.

It turned out well though, as he's got far more rescources to produce a far better show now.

 

I was under the impression that as long as you had a TV or anything that could get any form of signal, including laptop, you had to have a license? How is catch up TV different to watching live TV?

 

I abhor advertising, some channels are beyond bad for it; yes, of course you can record and fast forward, most of the time - somewhere down the line, though, there is an added expense to that - you don't get owt for nowt.
I looked at my Sky useage and have cancelled movies and sport saving over £55/month, I like the sport but am rarely in for it. The one-off cost of an android box looks like a good deal to complement my remaining Sky products. Another factor for retaining the basic Sky package is that it has taken me 15yrs+ to train the wife to use the remote - it's an on going quest.
As for the BBC, I love it. I like the news coverage, it is excellent and does what I need. I think the dramas are excellent (not all to my taste) and in reasonable numbers. Documentaries are usually outstanding, especially those covering the natural world. Sport is usually outstanding, all sport, not just football. The last Olympics were just superb, I had square eyes by the end and wanted more, it was all BBC For me. I thought Match of the Day was ****e (it is, but watchable ****e) until I saw the new FL show. Cricket was great, Wimbledon is, as was F1. There is a need for some tweaking of services, but we should not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
I am a big advocate of the BBC, although I fully accept it needs to develop and grow with the times, but that does not include a change to licensing. All of TV and radio, which will be watched differently as we all age, all of that development potential, all of that at your families beck and call for less that 40p a day. Do the math.

 

I had the pleasure of an actual round with Alliss.

Was at RAF Bruggen, he came over to open our new club house (stfu Carmine) and I got to wander round with him taking photos of him. He was non stop genuinely ****ing hilarious, even more so with the understated way he talks.

Was a formal dinner afterwards too, and he was hands down the funniest after dinner speaker I have ever had the pleasure of listening to.

 

So that's saying that no matter what channel you record, whether BBC or not, then you need a licence?
I always thought the BBC should be like a pay as you go phone, only pay for what you use!

 

£35m off a BBC budget of what size? In the overall scheme of things sounds like a drop in the ocean?

 

I think the £35m cut is for sport only and a further £115m in cuts are being made.

 

The BBC said the savings are a consequence of a drop in the licence fee income because of what it calls the "iPlayer loophole".

This refers to people who have switched to watching BBC services only on "catch up" via the iPlayer, which does not currently require payment of the licence fee.

The BBC said it has received assurances from the government that this "loophole" will be closed.