PaulR said:
Sorry, you've lost me on this.
When the Beeb sell their programmes they are then able to use this money to defray the cost of that programme or produce further programmes.
What's wrong with that?
They get over 135 quid a year stealth tax from every legal tv license in the UK.
Part of the beeb's remit is to be a an informative british non commerical entity, very different of that of ITV or Sky. I find it repulsive in 2008 that I cannot have the CHOICE to purchase bbc.
The vast amount of "guaranteed" money which the BBC waste per year is phenomenal, over staffed productions and of course BBC anchors on obcene amounts salarys etc, it has 26,000 employees in the UK alone and a budget of more than £4 billion
Take sky for instance, when sky have a premiership football match, the production team is a 3rd of the amount of staff of which the BBC will use for their live football productions.
In my humble oppinion, mine and many thousands of viewers issues is the question of being forced to pay for somthing you may wish or not wish to watch.
back to your point regarding the beeb selling their rights abroad and then being able to use the money to produce futher programming and cut costs. cut costs for whom? for the licence fee payer? I think not
