BBC - Why am I paying my Licence Fee

Nilrem

Freddie_Snowbits wrote: »

If the company I work for wanted me to work overtime, it is me who gets there and home again at my expense.
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Does your company also expect you to work at odd locations, at short notice (potentially no notice) where public transport may be at best spotty?
If they do, do they cover you for mileage?
How about business class insurance on your car?

For a company that does, and has a lot of temporary employees, or even visitors/guests (as say the news), a taxi may be the cheapest possible option and easiest to admin.
Most companies that do expect staff to be flexible in travel arrangements and working time, will generally be willing to pay reasonable additional expenses, especially if those staff are not contractually required to work past that time and are "skilled" or already up to date on what is going on (and with broadcasting potentially paying a few taxi fares can save a lot of extra higher costs by allowing staff to stay longer than expected, saving the need for another whole day of wages/props/studios etc).

To put things in perspective, Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe is right at the cheapest end of the market for TV and costs about 40k an episode from memory (he goes into what is involved in TV in one episode), that's for about 25-30 minutes with largely one man on screen and a host of clips, filmed in what often looks like a hotel room on a single (or at most) two cameras.

So £1000 a day on average for a large studio complex that will be using the taxis for staff when need be, for guests (especially those that aren't getting a fee), raw materials etc, is equivalent to about 30 seconds of the cheapest possible TV, is not that high

Freddie_Snowbits

who is this right Charlie Brooker?

Lost2

I for one think it's about time they stopped the TV licence
we get programmes that are years old and when it
is a new program it's one of those celebrate shows
of people that I have never hared of :mad:

andyrules

Nilrem wrote: »

Does your company also expect you to work at odd locations, at short notice (potentially no notice) where public transport may be at best spotty?
If they do, do they cover you for mileage?
How about business class insurance on your car?


Many low paid workers have to find their own way home at odd hours with no notice. Many low paid workers have to transport themselves around for the basic mileage rate.

Most insurers don't charge any additional premium for using your car for commuting, unless you are a commercial traveller.

spike7451

Freddie_Snowbits wrote: »

If the company I work for wanted me to work overtime, it is me who gets there and home again at my expense.

Unfortunately, there is very little content on the BBC to even contemplate watching one show, the Doctor Who was poor this Christmas, and yesterday the Eric and Ernie show was absolute CODSWALLOP. I switched off after the depiction that prior to 2005, all railways where carbon chucking steam on single tracks and Eric entered the equivalent of the 1940 Britains got Talent show, I mean "You know why you're here, 'cos you've got talent!". I doubt that it was like that.

Freddie, proud not to have watched the BBC news since 21:33Z 03:05:1982. A good 29 years worth.

You're not wrong,it was positively mind numbingly boring...Doctor Who was an hour of my life I'll never get back..:rotfl:

I found tho that some of the best films were on TV late in the night,like Gorky Park,Outland ect.
Generally,I watched documentaries on Sky over crimbo..

Fergie76

BBC should go commercial and do away with the licence fee. Very rarely do I watch BBC.

As that's not gonna happen any time soon, ways the BBC can save money:

Why does each English region need it's own radio station? Radio Devon, Radio Cornwall, Radio Somerset etc, in Scotland there is only one, Radio Scotland?

Another way is, when a Scotland football match is being shown nationwide, there are two studio's one for the English audience with Lineker and co, and one for Scottish audiences. Yet when an England game is being shown nationwide, there is only the English studio and commentators.

Also during the world cup, why did Linker and co have to go South Africa, to sit in a studio there to present the football, why couldn't that have been done from the London studio's, it brought no enhancement to the coverage what-so-ever.

During the last Olympics, did the BBC not send more people, than we had athletes there?

dizziblonde

Fergie76 wrote: »

Why does each English region need it's own radio station? Radio Devon, Radio Cornwall, Radio Somerset etc, in Scotland there is only one, Radio Scotland?

And why is this done so blooming inconsistently? You've got Nottingham and Derby, about 10 miles apart with their own BBC radio stations... yet Sunderland and Newcastle, again cities 10 miles apart... Sunderland gets shunted into Radio Newcastle.

spike7451

dizziblonde wrote: »

And why is this done so blooming inconsistently? You've got Nottingham and Derby, about 10 miles apart with their own BBC radio stations... yet Sunderland and Newcastle, again cities 10 miles apart... Sunderland gets shunted into Radio Newcastle.

And Northern Ireland has BBC Radio Ulster & BBC Radio Foyle, station's I have never listened to unless I happen to be in the car & the driver is over 55 years old!!

veryunsure

Who pays for the almost entire rebuild of a cottage on this week's episode?

Why were there trees full of green leaves (indicating summer) and then Christmas decorations and snow on Casualty?

spike7451

veryunsure wrote: »

Who pays for the almost entire rebuild of a cottage on this week's episode?

Why were there trees full of green leaves (indicating summer) and then Christmas decorations and snow on Casualty?

If you're on about DIY SOS,I was told a while back by a friend who works in the BBC that most of the people featured in them there type of programmes either work for the BBC or are related to someone who does.

Dunno how true that is but it wouldn't suprise me!