at the ‘do’ yesterday to ‘celebrate’ 1 yr till the Olympics the BBC sent 250 staff.. ITN which also does channel four news sent 22 and SKY sent 11 must have been one heck of a buffet for all those BBC staff to leave the office for the day. 250!!
the same public body spends 60 million a year on covering Grands Prix.. not the rights just covering them.. and all the camera work is done by the specialist GP team who do the feed for evry broadcaster .. what do they pay jake whatsis name ? rant over

250 sounds like a very round number – where did it come from?

Do they not sell their coverage to lots of different english speaking countries around the world?
Think I remember that South African telly buys the coverage of the BEEB.

How many channels does the BBC (TV and radio) have compared to ITN?

london 2012 official website..

the same public body spends 60 million a year on covering Grands Prix.. not the rights just covering them.. and all the camera work is done by the specialist GP team who do the feed for evry broadcaster .. what do they pay jake whatsis name

The rights, what do you think makes Mr Ecclestone so attractive to ladies?

Bloody winding me up already (Olympics not BBC), which I knew it would. I wish I could go and holiday in the wilds for the next 12 months, sick of the whole thing already.

Come on Tim!

the same public body spends 60 million a year on covering Grands Prix.. not the rights just covering them..

I don’t belive that

It’s including the rights

From elsewhere…

The corporation pays £60 million a year for the rights to the 19 F1 races and the cost of covering F1 is believed to be more than the entire annual budget for BBC Four, which would be saved if the broadcaster goes ahead with the plan to drop the motor racing.

BUT! how much (if any) of that £60M does it recoup in selling on the BBC coverage to other broadcasters? They do tend to make a point in the programme at each race that it is going out across the globe.

I expect there is a cost, but £60M is the headline figure and it won’t be the the net result.

Its not the grand prix lot you want to be worried about. Its all the cbeebies and Newsround presenters. Mental they are! The lot of them! What your kids watch is just a front. They’re utterly debauched

Any excuse and they’re out leathering the expense account. Out of control they are. The director General of the BBC is terrified off them apparently! they’ll have threatened him with all sorts unless they could all go.

Even NOTW journalists were afraid to publish pictures of them when they’re in full flow, partying.

CBeebies…”Baby Jake”. WTF ?
Cracking idea that, teaching kids words like “goggygiar”.

And that smug **** Lord Coe sums up everything that the next Olympics stands for, & its not about people thats for sure. I see they wont be charging folk to watch the 153 mile road cycle race, but you can bet your life its been looked at to see if they could have. No intrest here.

“show me show me”….a magnum of Champagne 😆

Its not the grand prix lot you want to be worried about. Its all the cbeebies and Newsround presenters. Mental they are!

I know a story about a blue peter presenter. I couldn’t post it on a family forum 😯

Singling out any one sport, programme or channel is a bit pointless though. I bet a single F1 race weekend gets more viewers than BBC4 does in an entire week!

And where do you drawn the line – I hate golf and horse racing but I won’t campaign for the BBC to stop covering it.

I agree the whole 1 year to go coverage yesterday was way over the top though – but just think what the coverage of the actual event will be like! I think some BBC execs heads will explode with excitement!

The one with the marines?

I see they wont be charging folk to watch the 153 mile road cycle race

No but you have to get a pass to watch it on the interesting bit, only available if you’re a local. I’ll just stay at home then and watch it on telly 🙁

I’m assuming BBC sending so many staff is because they will be the main broadcaster at the events selling their footage onto other broadcasters?!