1,700 Jobs to Go at BBC
When Chris Huhne launched his Lib Dem leadership bid, our cameraman took the trouble to count the number of BBC people present.
There were TWELVE of them. Sky and ITN had three each.
You see this all the time, BBC camera teams literally tripping over each other. Each news show has its own resources. Guido has been inside the BBC's Millbank operation, regional reporters galore reporting on Westminster. Ridiculous. Newsnight's production office alone is as big as whole of the Sky News operation. This profligacy only happens because they don't have to care about the bottom line.
46 comments:
"This only happens because they don't have to care about the bottom line.."
Er, I think it is more to do with the fact that Sky News is a complete load of sub-tabloid shite for the hard of thinking...
Make it 5000 the programmes are mostly low rent and the staff live in a world of their own.
Hell why not 10000 and a substantial licence fee rebate?
12 BBC arseholes to interview some LibDum nonentity.
Let's start a campaign to refuse to pay the licence fee and put a stop to this enforced nonsense!
Hopefully it will also put an end to the practice of the BBC being given virtually unlimited numbers of questions at PM's press conferences as Robinson, Crick, Landale, Pienaar et al all jostle to get their question in.
Good point. And I think we all remember you being "inside the BBC's Millbank operation".....
Only 12 BBC arseholes for the vital task of interviewing who and wotsisname: were the rest at lunch?
bollox to the bbc is right, mass refusal to pay bthe blackmail licence will bring the whole edifice down in short order. As Dennis will tell you -THEY CAN'T TOUCH YOU - what are you all waiting for????
"Sky News is a complete load of sub-tabloid shite"
... which gets the news from everywhere out ahead of the BBC practically every time. And gets better camera angles in a scrum. And innovates only for the Beeb to nick their ideas. And does not employ Humphrys, Robinson, Davies or Marr but does employ Boulton and Randall who leave all the foregoing standing.
And BTW, we have all cottoned on to 'tabloid' being code for 'does not support the Labour Party unless it's the Mirror'.
And no I don't work for Murdoch.
And yes I do think the poll tax I mean licence fee sould be scrapped
high time the bottom line had a boot applied to its collective arse - in the direction of the exit - who would miss them - (apart from the arty-farty po-face brigade)
Did someone call?
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My wife happened to have the chance to compare Sky News and BBC News coverages of Princess Diana's death. It was easy to quantify: Sky won by hours.
The BBC HR department employs more people than the whole of Channel 4.
The £11 million the BBC spent on TAXIS last year would fund a few programmes, let alone £18 million for Jonathan Ross.
Sky News is at least actually news, not Labour propaganda. Mind, find the constant word feed across the screen rather irritating - but as it costs me nothing, a small price to pay.
I am also rather amused by the BBC's idea of budgets. Their income is currently £3.9 billion a year, but they are lamenting the latest licence fee settlement is £2 billion too little for their requirements. So their budget was for very nearly double their income..........interesting.
How many people work at the BBC?
About half of them...
too right. who got the interview which bust the lib dem leadership issue open? how big is their entire operation? exactly. clue: it wasn't the bbc.
Callmedave should privatise the lot of 'em - certain vote winner
http://bbcpioneers.blogspot.com/
Only those members of staff who have the slightest conservative tendencies will be sacked.
The man in charge of the the staff review is one of Brown's best friends.
Robinson and the gnome Marr will remain
F-narr. Guido said 'the bottom line'. Bottom. Bottoms. Bums. Bumming. Queers. Arse bandits. Chutney ferrets. Uphill Gardeners. Bottom line. Bumming. Queers. Rimmers. Queers. Perverts. Deviants. Bums. Gayers. Paedos.
Just another 25,000 odd, to go then!
1700 people will have to look for a real job now. Tescos always need shelf-stackers, but heir standards might be a bit high for ex-Beeboids.
this is the reinvention of state controlled television , dissenters are being being sorted to one side and fired.
we will now see the emergence of the sort of programming that lefties like ,and news editors with scares on there temporal regions of the skull , the lobotomay being pre requisite for the job.
andrew marr will be head of the BBC but will end up taking drugs because he will have allowed the country to become a strife torn and broken country , somthing he never forsaw in his intellectual love of post TB nu labour.
these lot are already letting us down , they are becoming more undemocratic at the national level and making local democracy the thing , you know like communism councils will become the party officials.
oh and property owners are going to suffer to pay for all this.
dear trolls you will have to taste at some point what you have created the dissidents from within are appearing.
thanks
red despot spotter
That is what Guido calls "a good start"
Once a Tory boy always a Tory boy - whatever the merits of reducing staff numbers at the BBC (and I agree something needs to be done) you don't have to be so callous and enjoy it. Those losing their jobs are unlikely to be the big names and it won't be a pleasant experience for them or your families.
Will you ever learn!
perhaps cleaning hospitals would be an idea for them i mean they have few real skills and noone will notice a drop in quality cos noone watchs the crap.
Tory boy, great idea, in fact why don't you take them on yourself - there's always something to be done around the house or in the garden.
But on a more charitable note, it may be that Sky etc. have the latest kit that works itself, and the BBC is still operating reel-to-reel tapes. My own experience is that when Farming Today recorded at Tuscan Towers, there were 3 of them. Anna Hill to grill me and the peasant; flunky 1 to hold the mic; and flunky 2 to...errr..oversee the proceedings? We could have done it with just Anna. Bet she'd have been up for it, too, with a share of the other 2 dudes' salaries/overhead.
jj said...
"I am also rather amused by the BBC's idea of budgets. Their income is currently £3.9 billion a year, but they are lamenting the latest licence fee settlement is £2 billion too little for their requirements. So their budget was for very nearly double their income..........interesting."
The budget shortfall is a total of £2 billion over SIX YEARS.
Anonymous said...
F-narr. Guido said 'the bottom line'. Bottom. Nappies. Bottoms. Gordon Brown. Bums. Rocking Horse Bumming. Gordon Brown. Queers.Gordon Brown. Arse bandits. Gordon Brown. Chutney ferrets. Gordon Brown. Uphill Gardeners. Bottom line. Gordon Brown. Bumming. Gordon Brown. Queers. Rimmers. Gordon Brown. Queers. Perverts. Gordon Brown. Deviants. Bums. Gordon Brown. Gayers. Rocking horse. Paedos. Gordon Brown.Gordon Brown. Gordon Brown.
re tory boys never grow up post.
they may not be big names by that i assume you mean celebrities , and are not important. when will you ever learn nu liebour is a defective form of goverment that leads to non celebrities suffering the consequences.
cant you see this is a wank festival run by wankers for the purpose of wanking, to award the wanker who they think has wanked the most with the title of biggest wanker of the year. only to appear in ric and jud show and heat mag to prove that being the biggest wanker of the year enables you to be on telly.
i rest my case this goverment are crap "and that is that" quote TB last PMQ
thanks
red despot spotter
To sum up
-Hug a headchopper in Spooks
-The Wankfest call Newsnight Review
-Crick et al snivelling up to Andrew Neil on the Daily Politics today because their P45's are in the post
-The endless promotion of all things Nu Lab
-The Fib Dems becoming Al Beebs political wing
-Abu Bowen and The Simpleton blaming everything on those evil joooos
-Naff Footy commentry
-Matt 'Stir' Frei being a bigger cunt than Gordon Brown
-250 reporters for a puff piece
-Slugger Humphrys and Hitman Paxo engaged in name calling
-Toynbee and McGuire hailed a political guru's.
-Stealing your money on Children in Need,Saturday Kitchen,Blue Peter
-Naff lifestyle programes
-Promoting all things eco and health fascist
-Dross like the Power of Nighmares
-'Laugh and Hour' Lefties a la Mark Steele,Rory Cuntchops et al
-And the telly Tax going up to £151.50
No wonder every crypto-commie is crying in their vodka's
I know I have to blog these wankers.....
http://bbc-biased.blogspot.com/
Tory Boy
"Those losing their jobs are unlikely to be the big names and it won't be a pleasant experience for them or your families."
Really?Is that why Kaplinsky is about to fuck of to Channel Five leaving poor old George......
According to Crick and he isn't going to re-send his CV for his position-so that is that cunt possible gone.
Esler is shitting his pants-I hope thats him up against the wall.
Naughtie and 80 his fucking goons are writing 'cry me a river' stories on Guardian Media....hopefully thats them fucked.
And as for the 'rest of them'-Well they can enjoy the 10 years of ZaNuLab 'getting em back to work' shit that is the DWP-Just like the rest of us telly tax payers.
IF THEY HADN'T FUCKED OVER THEIR WAGE PAYERS WE MIGHT HAVE SOME SYMPATHY,NOW WE SAY FUCK 'EM- COULDN'T HAPPEN TO NICER PEOPLE
I hope the NUJ calls a strike -it'll be Maggie & Scargill all over again.
Will callmedave have the bottle to send the riot police in against the massed ranks of Newsnight & Toady?
Can't wait!
See:-
http://bbcpioneers.blogspot.com/
I shall be convinced that the BBC is serious about saving money when the corporation lets Jonathan Ross and Andrew Neil, and all the programmes they front, go.
- Frank Little
And the amount of serious political programming being produced by commercial channels? Pretty much fuck all, is what.
Redundancy is too good for them I say. String 'em up, the idle commie poncing bastards!!
Much as the thought of beeboids staggering tearily to the labour exchange, P45's in hand, is amusing, 1,700 is less than 7% of the Beeb's staff. My guess is they'll just institute a hiring freeze and let natural wastage run it's course.
What's also ikely is that the hiring freeze will be "targeted". The HR, finance and managment departments will actually grow on the pretext they need extra staff to handle the additional work of reducing numbers. Programming and technical will be the departments that shrink.
Anyone care to bet against me?
btw. John Rieth,
In case you hadn't noticed Dave Nice-But-Dim isn't the PM. Nervous Gordon is.
So your Maggie v Scargill analogy kinda falls down. Mrs T and Arfur were on opposite sides, ideologically. NuLabour and the Beeb are so alike it's untrue.
Of course if you REALLY want to see chronic overstaffing and pitifully bad management you need only look at all of BBC radio instead. A prime example is how BBC Radio 1 select their playlist, compared with their commercial competitors. A playlist meeting consists of the various shows' producers, music team editors, assistants and various other staff. They then meet and choose what Radio 1 should play next week by a 'democratic vote' process and not by what their listeners might actually want. The arrogant view is that 'we know what you want to listen to'.
Capital, on the other hand, has one person who uses listener popularity figures on songs plus feedback from the DJ's to build the playlist.
The Remittance Man said...
btw. John Rieth,
In case you hadn't noticed Dave Nice-But-Dim isn't the PM. Nervous Gordon is.
I thought it was kinda obvious that NULAB wasn't going to wipe out its own propaganda arm.
Just as obvious as the fact that NULAB's in its death throes and the Beeb ain't gonna crumble overnight.
Clearly more explanation was needed - sigh
What would aunty say? oh well; as long as the beeb bosses axe that self promoting news hag Natasha Kaplinsky and that example of smugness Andrew Neil. Now lets get sacking!! Huhne 4 PM......NOT
Andrew Neil may be smug but he's the only political commentator that gets away with asking Labourites difficult questions.
Ah, so he'll be first against the wall then...
Barrowboy philosopher, diamond geezer and business-cocksucker-at-large of the Daily Trannygraph, Jeff What a Norf and Souf Randall was on Newswank last night, talking like a cunt. Stanislav not mock language difficulty but this cockney-sparrow arsehole really is a fucking linguistic nazi, scowling and fucking muttering through his teeth, all summinks and dropped aitches as though his fucking crudity somehow validates his fucking stupidity; tossing figures around like a very inferior -and that's going some- Alan cuntface Sugar, Murdoch tart Randall looked like somebody who should've been hanged at Nuremberg. A shit piece -what else- about some minor adjustments to the job-creation scheme for Oxbridge nancyboys and girls that is the BBC. The Today programme only costs five mill and Newsnight only costs eight mill, thundered von Randall. Thirteen million pounds too fucking much, thought Stanislav, choking on his beetroot on toast.
Earlier in the "package" Lord fucking Neill of Wapping was seen scurrying into Schloss Beeb bleating that he might not still have a job. Worthless fucking Scotch scab. Might have to flog some of his millions of Murdoch shares, or his chateau in France if the license payer is relieved of supporting his young woman habit, ghastly old smirking degenerate. Fuck them all off on their arses. Especially drunken money-grubbing Uncle Tom Diane Fucking Abbot and simpering I-agree-with- everyone-else arseburglar Dame Michaela, another one in a Brownian marriage.
Still, though, the BBC does do some useful work. On McNeill's tosser politics programme yesterday was a young woman who was clearly, judging by her complexion, her antsy disorientation, her poorly dyed jet black hair and the truly horrific bags under her eyes that modern, urban phenomenon, a crack whore.
From hanging around doing drugs with undesirable Millipedes she had clearly developed insect-like interview techniques. Leering and ogling and smirking like a fucking nonce, O'Neill asked the unfortunate young woman a question.
Q: Minister, do you know what day is it?
A: Well, with respect, that's two questions and I'll deal with the second one first while I desperately try to conjure an answer to the first real part of your question, it is a fair question which I will return to but first I would say that unlike the other party who ducked this question for seventeen years my party has fully costed this issue and as we speak a select committee of Scotch members of all parties is looking into this very difficult question with a view to taking forward the debate, it is a debate we should have in an adult democracy and my party will provide parliamentary time for that debate to happen as I am sure listeners, and indeed viewers would want, my party will not, like the other party did and we will take no lessons from them, shirk it's responsibility in reaching a broad consensus on behalf of all of the rich people and not just a few of the rich people but these are difficult questions and there is no magic wand, or silver bullet, if there was we would have found it and waved it, or fired it. We will learn lessons and move forward and draw lines under this question and indeed in the sand. We also, of course invite the general public to comment on our websites, although we cannot of course guarantee that any such comments will be published or indeed read, We live in a twenty-four-seven feral media and busy politicians and their aides have much to do in preparing to be on Richard and Judy and indeed your own programme, Lord Dimbleby.
To turn to the first part of the question, what day is it, well I am sure that you would not expect me, as a minister, to comment on individual days, especially so given the security implications and I would just take this opportunity of thanking our security service for the magnificent professionalism with which they approach the task of herding vulnerable old people into hospitals and killing them. My right honourable colleague, Mrs Alana Belsen-Johnstone, the singing postmistress, has been fulsome in her praise and gratitude for these unsung heroes but I would add my voice to hers. But I digress, to return to the question, what day is it.. Well, it is a difficult question. With no easy answers. There are conflicting sets of evidence and a minister, as I am sure you understand, must balance often diametrically opposed wotsits. The very best answer I can give you to that question at this moment in time, and it is a very important question and viewers are right to ask it, is that clearly, on balance, in a very real sense, although the Devil as ever is in the detail, the bottom line is that I DON'T KNOW WHAT FUCKING DAY IT IS.
Q: Thank you minister. Do you by any chance know who that ginger cunt sitting next to you is?
A: Only one answer to that, Jonathan. That's that ginger cunt Charlie the happily married Dipso. He goes months without knowing what day it is. don't you , dearie.
The BBC has asked Stanislav to make clear that Health Minister, Ms Flint was on the telly and not at PMQs as part of her rehabilitation.
"I am also rather amused by the BBC's idea of budgets. Their income is currently £3.9 billion a year, but they are lamenting the latest licence fee settlement is £2 billion too little for their requirements. So their budget was for very nearly double their income..........interesting "
Your' all so prejudiced against the beeb - surely it is obvious they provide a totally impartial public thervith and the do need that extra £2 billion
there are so many things they can do with it
now let me see .............
Well it was a £2bn shortfall over 6 years, which seems to mean they wanted an extra 10% per year for the next 6 years. Kind of interesting when you imagine that inflation is supposedly less than 3%. Unless the BBC knows that the inflation figures they have been publsihing are a load of BS. On the other hand perhaps the Beeb has wage inflation which has been consistently higher than 10% regardless of the current inflation rate. That would explain why they had to cut 10% off the CURRENT workforce in order to be able to afford NEXT YEARs salaries.
Anyway, apparently they are going to go on strike. So lets see if any of us notices.... (it probably just force a few grannies to nip out and get a freeview box so they can opt for other channels). My guess is that they will just prove that they can no longer justify being paid via the licence....
BBC strike
BBC licence fee strike
They stop working, we stop paying. Easy.
a lot of wastage (especially the future plans, i believe) is actually on the ludicrously comprehensive website.
it's a very good website, but does employ a lot of people who spout complete drivel for a living, particularly
* "technology" editors whose main line is how it would be impossible to live for 2 minutes without "my blackberry"
* "sports" editors whose job it is to make up football transfer rumours, and talk about their public school during cricket reports
I hytink they talk to cameron. After all he has alot of expierence of lying to the public on TV companies finaicail issues.
It goes without saying, really, that all Scotchmen are arsebandits but isn't former jock wunderkind Charlie the Dipso also in a Brown marriage. He, too, kinda got himself hitched quite late and only when he thought his star was rising and people might wonder about him otherwise. He's been pissed on and off ever since. Like the walking saliva barrage, Baron Hatterjee, Kennedy seems inordinately fond of his old mother, spinning in her Highland Croft. And he is ginger.
1,700 jobs to go at BBC - GOOD! Make that each month and it would be even better!
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