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BBC has massive financial issues. In 2005 the license fee was £183.46 (in today's money). It's now £147. That's a 20% cut in revenue in the last 13 years. In ad
by isostatic 8y ago
BBC has massive financial issues. In 2005 the license fee was £183.46 (in today's money). It's now £147. That's a 20% cut in revenue in the last 13 years. In addition to that, funding for World Service and Monitoring has been moved to the license fee too.
If you're accessing from abroad you're the product -- the website is selling space to advertise to you.
This is the front page I see in the UK: https://i.imgur.com/EAADNgI.png https://i.imgur.com/EAADNgI.png
Top headline is Korea/US
Then next is Migrants, G7, Grenfell, and a trooping the colour change
The the sidebar is Entertainment, Crime, Sport, Entertainment, Entertainment, Crime, Technology
Internationally things like outbrain infect the BBC site, but we don't get that in the UK where we pay for it