Post by Teddy Bear on Mar 6, 2011 17:37:04 GMT
How much longer is the public going to accept the usual dismissive response from the BBC when they are seen to be clearly wasting their licence fee income, that they are 'committed to provide good value and quality' and then proceed to milk it again for their own pleasures.
An American company wants to sell their shows. There's absolutely no reason why the BBC can't request copies of these shows to be sent to them for viewing, and then if they find something worthwhile, negotiate a deal.
Instead the BBC execs decide they want a paid for junket, and use this as an excuse to fund it. Their 'Green' biased agenda that they thrust at us is only for us peons, they are above such considerations where their own lifestyle is concerned.
Shows how stupid our society has become to keep funding these contemptuous self serving low level scum.
An American company wants to sell their shows. There's absolutely no reason why the BBC can't request copies of these shows to be sent to them for viewing, and then if they find something worthwhile, negotiate a deal.
Instead the BBC execs decide they want a paid for junket, and use this as an excuse to fund it. Their 'Green' biased agenda that they thrust at us is only for us peons, they are above such considerations where their own lifestyle is concerned.
Shows how stupid our society has become to keep funding these contemptuous self serving low level scum.
BBC WASTES £23,000 ON US JUNKET
THE BBC spent more than £23,000 to send five executives to an annual American TV festival where they watched only six shows, it has been revealed.
New figures just released show the BBC ran up huge bills for flights, accommodation and meals at the annual Los Angeles Screenings.
Hotel rooms at the event, where the American studios lay on lavish parties to showcase new programmes they are trying to sell to TV channels around the world, can cost up to $500 (£307) a night.
In 2008, five executives flew out to the week-long festival, at a cost to the licence fee payer of £23,842.
That year, a writers’ strike in Hollywood had stopped production, meaning that the executives watched only six shows in a week.
The following year, four executives went to the screenings, signing off bills for £20,460. Figures for last year are not yet available.
A BBC spokesman defended the trips, saying: “While we are taking steps to limit the amount we spend on acquisitions, the BBC aims to secure the best content from across the world for its audiences.
“The major market for viewing and acquiring new US programming is the LA Screenings, which provide a first opportunity to see a raft of US programmes that may prove popular for British audiences and is attended by broadcasters from all over the world including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky, UKTV, Virgin Media, MTV and others from the UK.”
The BBC has almost no American shows during prime-time and doesn’t even have a set budget for foreign acquisitions.
Sue Deeks, the BBC’s head of series, programme acquisitions, said: “The BBC itself doesn’t have an acquisitions budget as such, being a public broadcaster, but instead has channel budgets. If we find something that we want to buy, then the channel heads find the money from their budgets, then allocate us to go and buy it.”
THE BBC spent more than £23,000 to send five executives to an annual American TV festival where they watched only six shows, it has been revealed.
New figures just released show the BBC ran up huge bills for flights, accommodation and meals at the annual Los Angeles Screenings.
Hotel rooms at the event, where the American studios lay on lavish parties to showcase new programmes they are trying to sell to TV channels around the world, can cost up to $500 (£307) a night.
In 2008, five executives flew out to the week-long festival, at a cost to the licence fee payer of £23,842.
That year, a writers’ strike in Hollywood had stopped production, meaning that the executives watched only six shows in a week.
The following year, four executives went to the screenings, signing off bills for £20,460. Figures for last year are not yet available.
A BBC spokesman defended the trips, saying: “While we are taking steps to limit the amount we spend on acquisitions, the BBC aims to secure the best content from across the world for its audiences.
“The major market for viewing and acquiring new US programming is the LA Screenings, which provide a first opportunity to see a raft of US programmes that may prove popular for British audiences and is attended by broadcasters from all over the world including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky, UKTV, Virgin Media, MTV and others from the UK.”
The BBC has almost no American shows during prime-time and doesn’t even have a set budget for foreign acquisitions.
Sue Deeks, the BBC’s head of series, programme acquisitions, said: “The BBC itself doesn’t have an acquisitions budget as such, being a public broadcaster, but instead has channel budgets. If we find something that we want to buy, then the channel heads find the money from their budgets, then allocate us to go and buy it.”