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mark occomore
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 Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:08 am Post subject: 2,800 Jobs to Go At BBC |
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BBC correspondent Nick Higham said he understood the corporation would confirm this week that it was going to sell its famous building in Shepherd's Bush, west London.
He said he understood around 500 jobs would go in BBC News, largely by amalgamating the television, radio and online newsrooms.
There would also be "considerable" savings in BBC Television, in factual programmes, documentaries and children's programmes, while there would also be more repeats, he added.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7047060.stm |
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Toggy tea slurper
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I thought this 'trust' was supposed to represent license payers, so yeah we all want crap news and more repeats don't we.
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gfloyd
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| Toggy tea slurper wrote: | I thought this 'trust' was supposed to represent license payers, so yeah we all want crap news and more repeats don't we.
FFS! |
Wont miss most of them I am guessing.
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firewirefred
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| Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Does the red text signify that it's one of your more important news releases, Mark? |
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mark occomore
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| I think the BBC is contradicting themselves saying they won't have repeats etc etc. Now they are going to have repeats. |
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firewirefred
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| mark occomore wrote: | | I think the BBC is contradicting themselves saying they won't have repeats etc etc. Now they are going to have repeats. |
It was Michael Grade who, when becoming Chairman of the Board of Governors, declared his personal mission to reduce the number of primetime repeats on mainstream BBC TV channels. Michael grade has since defected over to an ailing ITV, and the Governors have been replaced by a so-called "Trust". It's the Trust that has cow-towed to the Culture Secretary who, in January, announced that the licence fee increase fee would be limited to 3% pa so this is a bit of PR on the BBC's part to make us realise that there's a price to be paid for such a cut-back. Everyone in broadcasting - and politicians - know that the one thing licence-payers hate most is endless repeats of programmes that were made in an age when the BBC was prepared to make original programming, so that's why Thompson and Lyons have taken this tack.
It's all PR (or "anti PR") and a dangerous game to be playing. |
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gfloyd
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Here's some good PR for the BBC 
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BBC film 'paid for paintballing terror suspects'
Terrorists were given a day's paintballing for a BBC documentary called Don't Panic I'm Islamic, a court heard.
Mohammed Hamid, who also called himself Osama bin London, was among those wearing masks, ducking behind oil barrels and shooting at cut-out figures in scenes from the film shown to a jury at Woolwich Crown Court.
Hamid, who is accused of recruiting and grooming the July 21 bombers, was also seen lining up to pray.
The film also featured two other men accused of terrorism offences, Mousa Brown and Mohammed al-Figari, along with 13 other men at a paintball centre in Tonbridge, Kent.
The men and two others, all from London, deny a variety of charges.
The documentary was shot in Feb 2005 but the jury heard that the group returned to the Delta Force centre four days before the July 7 attacks, bringing with them Ramzi Mohammed and Hussain Osman, who launched failed attacks on July 21.
The trial continues.
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