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Likewise. This is the rationale: > We have an unusual requirement when it comes to developing the BBC website – it carries advertising internationally but not
by jrogers65 14y ago
Likewise. This is the rationale:
> We have an unusual requirement when it comes to developing the BBC website – it carries advertising internationally but not in the UK, and we have to build and design for both these situations simultaneously. The site carries advertising internationally so that UK licence fee payers don’t cover international costs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/help/site_versions.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/help/site_versions.shtml
So essentially the reason that we cannot view the page is because we would see adverts when we have already paid for the content. What a Kafkaesque situation.
- shocks 14y agoI would rather see adverts than nothing...
- jrogers65 14y agoGiven that they can already determine the country of origin by the IP quite effectively, I don't see why they don't just hide the adverts for UK viewers. This is a good example of well-intentioned insanity.
- archangel_one 14y agoI disagree on "quite effectively"; they don't let me see quite a lot of content from work because they think I'm not in the UK, even though I physically am a licence payer in London. To add to the insanity though, I can't see this article either.
- madaxe 14y agoI'd like to see their budgetary proof that not a penny of license-payer money was used on this. What about overheads (Light, Heat, Power, Rent)? Do they partition those out? I doubt it.
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- sageikosa 14y agoDo you have to pay separately to see the adverts? :-P
- nacker 14y agoOrwell learned about Big Brother when he worked at the BBC, that's where the phrase "Big Brother" came from. http://www.corbettreport.com/episode-253-the-bbc-exposed/ http://www.corbettreport.com/episode-253-the-bbc-exposed/
- simonh 14y agoI think it's that the BBC is actually precluded by charter from carrying advertising in the UK, so they don't have any choice in the matter.