Thread: Met Office loses BBC contract
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Old 23-08-2015, 19:02   #10
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Re: Met Office loses BBC contract
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Originally Posted by Damien View Post
This isn't really about protectionism though. At least I don't think it is. It's more than it makes sense if the BBC, a public organisation, used the Met Office. It depends who else they get but if they tend up giving it to someone marginally cheaper based abroad then isn't that a net loss for country given that currently that money goes to the Met Office and the staff they employ.
Well, yes it is! If you say that you will only give work to British companies, you are denying opportunities to the rest of the world, who may have better and cheaper alternatives to offer.

Where would we be without the Sonis and Samsungs of this world?

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Originally Posted by Stuart View Post
From what I understand, this has been on the cards for a while. The reason being that the Met Office have consistantly given wrong forecasts over the last few years, and the viewers are complaining to the BBC.
Quite. I am constantly amazed at the forecasts that come out of the Met Office. I look at the computer generated synoptic charts and I tell my friends what I think the weather will be like and then I'm alarmed by the forecast on the BBC News. Almost every time, my forecast is either spot on or essentially right and the Met Office are wrong. Furthermore, they change the forecast for a few days ahead on a daily basis.

Added to the professional incompetence, the local forecast is often diametrically opposed to the local forecast! Perhaps cynically, the Met Office think that if the local forecast says Bournemouth is going to be sunny and the national forecast portrays cloud along the south coast, they can boast that their forecast was correct! Well, at least one of them will have been!

I'm sorry, but if an amateur such as myself has a better record of forecasting than the Met Office, who have considerably more resources than I have to draw upon, it's time to change provider!

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Originally Posted by Stuart View Post
From what I understand, this has been on the cards for a while. The reason being that the Met Office have consistantly given wrong forecasts over the last few years, and the viewers are complaining to the BBC.
Yes, it's about time something was done.
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