BBC Television Centre goes to market
Desperately sad news from the BBC today as it announced the first phase in the sale of Television Centre, White City, London. The BBC’s putting a brave face on this, claiming it’s all about making a smaller, fitter BBC, but the building is where many famous shows were born. More importantly, it’s a central hub for the BBC, which will now be fired in all directions across the UK, into cheaper real estate.
The real reason, of course, for the sale has nothing to do with efficiency and everything to do with successive governments trying to kill the BBC by removing chunks of its funding, causing a massive shortfall. It’s depressing to note that regardless of whether you back the Tories or Labour, both of them want the BBC dead. Rupert Murdoch must be laughing his arse off right about now.
‘Successive governments trying to kill the BBC’
I think that’s a bit of jump isn’t it. They are reducing their costs, like all other public services in the UK.
‘Both of them want the BBC dead’
That is also a massively general and untrue statement. You don’t have any facts to base that statement on. There was recently a Conservative MP on the BBC who categorically stated that the BBC is one Britain’s greatest assets.
‘Rupert Murdoch must be laughing his arse off right about now’
This is also irrelevant to the article and seems like a down right cheap attempt to slag of someone who you don’t like. I don’t like him either, but Sky TV is really great and the point simply weakens your already shaky argument.
I think that you have simply written an angry article after reading one news headline without sitting and researching about it. In future please think and research stories you are going to write about instead of posting an angry article that benefits no one and spreads ignorance.
Felix.
“I think that’s a bit of jump isn’t it.”
Given that David Cameron has been directly quoted as calling the BBC cuts “delicious”, I think not.
“That is also a massively general and untrue statement. You don’t have any facts to base that statement on. There was recently a Conservative MP on the BBC who categorically stated that the BBC is one Britain’s greatest assets.”
Tories might say that about the BBC and the NHS, but they’re in the minority, saying what they think people want to hear at the time, or have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the BBC operates. Some Tories like the BBC, but don’t want it publicly funded, but if you turn the BBC into a fully commercial service, it’ll end up as PBS (in the same way every other state-funded TV corp. has gone after being switched to the fully commercial model). And you don’t have to look very far to find a ton of Tory-led bids to axe the licence fee over the past decade.