{"id":110,"date":"2006-03-15T11:29:07","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T11:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=110"},"modified":"2006-03-15T14:12:17","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T14:12:17","slug":"magic-number-at-bbq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"magic number at BBQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While most media organisations are cutting back frantically to compete with the internet, the BBC is demanding &#8220;inflation plus two and a half per cent&#8221; from the government to prop up its ratings. The claim is absurd. The licence fee already yields a stunning <strong>\u00a33bn<\/strong>. The BBC recently said it could lose 3,700 staff with no loss of broadcast quality; so who hired these useless people? The BBC bureaucracy is the common agricultural policy of the air, filling silos with overheads to cushion its eventual collapse into one gigantic pension fund. Come the digital revolution in a few years, the Cotswolds will be settled entirely by wealthy BBC pensioners all listening to Classic FM.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"he noses onions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,,1731047,00.html\">Simon Jenkins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who would have thunk it? A supremely great paragraph methinks, &#8220;the CAP of the air&#8221; wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Relatedly it seems that the BBQ is thinking of localising it&#8217;s free online content, now it would seem perfectly reasonable to give UK resident&#8217;s the choice of accessing online content via the license fee or on the same terms as overseas browsers &#8211; in fact any system that doesn&#8217;t introduce a BBQ tax on the sale of computers or broadband connections<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The BBC is set to begin commercialising traffic to bbc.co.uk, two strategies the company is considering are charging overseas users to access the site, and running commercials on the site. David Moody, director of strategy ad new media at BBC Worldwide has asserted that &#8220;Now is the right time to look at commercialising international traffic to bbc.co.uk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The BBC has also used the services of consulting firm Accenture to investigate ways to &#8220;make money from people who use its services but don&#8217;t pay the license fee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Moody has hinted that even license fee payers may have to pay an extra fee for certain types of online content, for example they might have to pay to view video material after the expiry of the current seven day window period offered by the online interactive media player.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.editorsweblog.org\/news\/2006\/03\/bbc_may_charge_for_web_access.php<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most media organisations are cutting back frantically to compete with the internet, the BBC is demanding &#8220;inflation plus two and a half per cent&#8221; from the government to prop up its ratings. The claim is absurd. The licence fee already yields a stunning \u00a33bn. The BBC recently said it could lose 3,700 staff with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}