BBC blows £6m on World Cup 295 staff to South Africa
 

THE bloated BBC is spending an eye-watering £6 MILLION to cover the World Cup, the News of the World can reveal. It will send 295 staff to South Africa for the month-long tournament in June - DOUBLE the number commercial rival ITV is sending for the same number of games. And £1 MILLION of the cash is to build its own studio instead of using Johannesburg's International Broadcast Centre like everyone else. This is £750,000 more than the one it built in Vienna for the 2008 European Championships.

Of 295 employees going to South Africa, 17 are commentators compared to four for ITV.

Last night critics blasted the licence-funded BBC's "money- no-object" attitude. MP Philip Davies, of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, said: "The BBC always take more people around the world than anyone else.


http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news...th-Africa.html


This is where Arista gets it from. the NOTW lol

Wow, nice to see good ol' fashioned bias in a 'News' paper

IMO its perfectly reasonable for the bBC to do that, its one of the worlds most watched events

It is going to be a big thing TBH im looking forward to it.

Yay, BBC football is always better than ITV.

Agree with Chewy on the money spending front, they are perfectly reasonable spending that much on such a huge event.

Dont see why not it will be made back if we do well. Easily.

"This is where Arista gets it from."


Not Correct


I get all info from Media Guardian.

:whistle:

Hey come on this could be the last jolly some of those hard working BBC type people get. If they do lose the licence fee and have to go commercial they certainly wont ever be able to afford Freebies like this in the future.

Then again it could be a sweetener to some of the deadwood, they should be getting rid of in this economic downturn.



Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we diet.



Incidentally someone at the BBC or NOTW really does need to get their thumb out and buy a calculator. A BBC spokeswoman said it budgeted £10,000-11,000 per member of staff

11,000 Budget per staff member
x 295 Number of lucky barstewards going on holiday for the Beeb.
= 3,245,000
+
1,000,000 For the new studio,
=
4,245,000

I presume the other 1.75 million is the kitty for duty frees and souvenirs