Post by Teddy Bear on Jul 4, 2010 16:16:19 GMT
On top of the bias and poor quality programmes that the BBC churns out, the hierarchy love to reward themselves with high salaries, extravagant expenses, and any jaunt they can take advantage of. They either think so highly of themselves and their performance, or else believe that no government is going to do anything about reeling them in, in the meantime their rotten and corrupt egos feels justified in milking all the benefits they can.
So consider this, they recently spent £830 MILLION pounds of the licence fee sum they receive to renovate Broadcasting House, and as if that wasn't bad enough, because they now realise that somebody overlooked to get proper safety tests done on the work before staff moved in, they now have to spend hundreds of thousands pounds more in moving staff into makeshift studios while they complete the work.
Heads should roll, but they'll probably increase their salaries and the stupid public will continue to suck it up. I'm beginning to think that the 'great' British public deserve this.
So consider this, they recently spent £830 MILLION pounds of the licence fee sum they receive to renovate Broadcasting House, and as if that wasn't bad enough, because they now realise that somebody overlooked to get proper safety tests done on the work before staff moved in, they now have to spend hundreds of thousands pounds more in moving staff into makeshift studios while they complete the work.
Heads should roll, but they'll probably increase their salaries and the stupid public will continue to suck it up. I'm beginning to think that the 'great' British public deserve this.
Hundreds of BBC staff forced to work out of makeshift studios in £830m office move fiasco
By Martin Delgado
The BBC is spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on moving staff out of state-of-the-art studios only nine months after they moved in.
The broadcast staff are being relocated to specially built temporary offices after it was discovered that no safety checks had been carried out at their new base in a recently refurbished wing of the Corporation’s flagship headquarters in Central London.
The tests should have been done on fire alarms, lifts and lighting at Broadcasting House – the iconic building in Regent Street – as part of an £830 million renovation.
But now hundreds of employees will have to operate out of makeshift studios in Bush House – where the BBC World Service is based – when Broadcasting House closes for several weeks while the tests are completed.
Details of the fiasco were revealed last week in an email from BBC
London executive editor Michael Macfarlane. The message says: ‘We’re now reasonably certain about where we’ll be going to during the period of systems testing that will close the W1 [Broadcasting House] building.
'A newsroom and temporary studios will be built on the ground floor of Bush (not far from the canteen!) which will mean the team will be together with studios beside them.’
Staff from BBC London moved into the new offices in Broadcasting House from their long-established base in Marylebone High Street.
The renovation – which has gone £20 million over its original budget of £813 million and is running at least two years late – is being investigated by the Government’s spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, amid growing concern about how the Corporation spends money on its vast property portfolio.
A BBC spokesman said: ‘On completion of a project, all systems . . . must undergo essential testing to ensure they meet health and safety regulations.’
Disgruntled workers say the corporation could have saved licence fee payers’ money by ensuring the checks were completed before they were allowed to move in.
By Martin Delgado
The BBC is spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on moving staff out of state-of-the-art studios only nine months after they moved in.
The broadcast staff are being relocated to specially built temporary offices after it was discovered that no safety checks had been carried out at their new base in a recently refurbished wing of the Corporation’s flagship headquarters in Central London.
The tests should have been done on fire alarms, lifts and lighting at Broadcasting House – the iconic building in Regent Street – as part of an £830 million renovation.
But now hundreds of employees will have to operate out of makeshift studios in Bush House – where the BBC World Service is based – when Broadcasting House closes for several weeks while the tests are completed.
Details of the fiasco were revealed last week in an email from BBC
London executive editor Michael Macfarlane. The message says: ‘We’re now reasonably certain about where we’ll be going to during the period of systems testing that will close the W1 [Broadcasting House] building.
'A newsroom and temporary studios will be built on the ground floor of Bush (not far from the canteen!) which will mean the team will be together with studios beside them.’
Staff from BBC London moved into the new offices in Broadcasting House from their long-established base in Marylebone High Street.
The renovation – which has gone £20 million over its original budget of £813 million and is running at least two years late – is being investigated by the Government’s spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, amid growing concern about how the Corporation spends money on its vast property portfolio.
A BBC spokesman said: ‘On completion of a project, all systems . . . must undergo essential testing to ensure they meet health and safety regulations.’
Disgruntled workers say the corporation could have saved licence fee payers’ money by ensuring the checks were completed before they were allowed to move in.