BBC cuts may mean the test card returns

[denphone]

The BBC is planning to cut costs by broadcasting more repeats, possibly scrapping Formula 1 and bringing back the test card overnight.
Bosses will meet the corporation’s governing body today to explain how to save £1.3billion over four years and in my mind because of these politically motivated cuts we will see a poorer, less educational and more dumbing down BBC and thats not a good thing especially with BSKYB and their bottomless pit full of money.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...Formula-1.html

[Jimmy-J]

They would save huge amounts of money just by reducing some of it's presenters wages.

[Will21st]

Originally Posted by Jimmy-J

They would save huge amounts of money just by reducing some of it's presenters wages.

or maybe they could cut down on managers,board of directors and excess staff as such.I bet they could let go of at least a quarter of their staff,no problem...

[Ignitionnet]

Propaganda. Everything and everyone facing cuts does exactly the same thing, present a worst case scenario in an attempt to get the public onside and try and scare those who hold the purse strings into pulling back.

Not a hell of a lot to see here. Love the first post though, so much partisanship and misinformation packed into one post.

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by denphone

The BBC is planning to cut costs by broadcasting more repeats, possibly scrapping Formula 1 and bringing back the test card overnight.

And they still expect people to pay the same TV licence price?

I bet they don't cut any funding to the heavy mob.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Propaganda. Everything and everyone facing cuts does exactly the same thing, present a worst case scenario in an attempt to get the public onside and try and scare those who hold the purse strings into pulling back.

Not a hell of a lot to see here. Love the first post though, so much partisanship and misinformation packed into one post.

Calling the kettle black aren't we.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by denphone

The BBC is planning to cut costs by broadcasting more repeats, possibly scrapping Formula 1 and bringing back the test card overnight.
Bosses will meet the corporation’s governing body today to explain how to save £1.3billion over four years and in my mind because of these politically motivated cuts we will see a poorer, less educational and more dumbing down BBC and thats not a good thing especially with BSKYB and their bottomless pit full of money.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...Formula-1.html

The BBC are given money every year via the licence fee, They should be made to live within there means the same as the rest of us. They could start by moving all there production to Manchester and if Clarkson wants to quit because of it so be it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...ester-14199018

Cutting his over priced wage should help.

[Osem]

The test card as we know it won't reappear. Apparently the BBC hired a team of top external consultants to do a financial analysis and after an exhaustive 6 month study, considering the cuts which need to be made, they've recommended that it should be in black and white and only 2/3 of it's normal size.

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by Osem

they've recommended that it should be in black and white and only 2/3 of it's normal size.

That's no good to me. I only have a colour TV!

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by denphone

Calling the kettle black aren't we.

Hardly. BSkyB's 'bottomless pit of money' is hardly that - as a private company they have to work within the revenue they receive from customers. They don't get everyone with a TV set sending them money under threat of fines and prison. Before you say anything about News Corp they haven't given Sky a penny, Sky nearly went bust pre-BSB merger and barely clung on for a while after.

Politically motivated cuts aren't, all 3 mainstream parties were going to make them. They are also irrelevant, the license fee is being frozen for 6 years. This is quite a good thing given that the fee is a regressive tax.

[AdamD]

For a publically funded service, it sure does burn through a lot of cash and yet, despite cutbacks, the license fee always seems to remain the same.

Maybe they should switch to an ad based service and scrap the license fee, after all, we are in hard, economic times.

Originally Posted by denphone

The BBC is planning to cut costs by broadcasting more repeats, possibly scrapping Formula 1 and bringing back the test card overnight.
Bosses will meet the corporation’s governing body today to explain how to save £1.3billion over four years and in my mind because of these politically motivated cuts we will see a poorer, less educational and more dumbing down BBC and thats not a good thing especially with BSKYB and their bottomless pit full of money.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...Formula-1.html

From the OP link.....

The cutbacks, drawn up after a six-year licence fee freeze, are likely to see BBC1 and BBC2 cease broadcasting at 1am. This has led to suggestions that it could see the return of the test card which for years was used when the BBC was off air

With those caveats, it seems that this part of the story is just another DM fiction.....

[ThunderPants73]

Personally, I would like to see more reality TV shows. We don't have enough of these yet and I think they are entertaining and highly educational.
Also I am glad that they are planning to show more repeats, there are sooo many shows that I have only seen a couple of dozen times, and we all know that you can never have too much of a Good Thing.
I shall be smiling with gratitude as I pay for my TV license, well, I would, if I hadn't CANCELLED IT.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by ThunderPants73

Personally, I would like to see more reality TV shows. We don't have enough of these yet and I think they are entertaining and highly educational.
Also I am glad that they are planning to show more repeats, there are sooo many shows that I have only seen a couple of dozen times, and we all know that you can never have too much of a Good Thing.
I shall be smiling with gratitude as I pay for my TV license, well, I would, if I hadn't CANCELLED IT.

Well everybody to their own taste bit l would like to see more Documentaries, nature programmes and some Real music programmes instead of this manufactured rubbish.

[papa smurf]

cutting funding to the beeb is a small price to pay for the continued support of camerons master- Rupert Murdoch- ,without news internationals support how is the Tory party expected to win the next election ? it was obvious when the Murdoch's won the last election that the beeb was competing against the wrong people .