[Crimson Dynamo]

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