[Marsh.]

All you need is one or two people who understand the legal issues and one person who knows how to cut anything that needs to be cut out.

Yes, 24/7 for three months requires one or two people. Ok.

Yes, you do. If you're going to make a convincing case.

No I do not.

The people who's job it is to know that have said time and again there is not enough interest to justify paying the money for it.
That is all I need to know.

If it was any more problematic than that why would so many other countries have the live coverage including multiple feeds in some cases.

Because, like the UK did 10 years ago, they have the interest for it.
BBUK no longer does.
Why bother paying money and going through all of the effort for it when it does nothing for them in return. It's a waste of resources.

The 24/7 coverage has never been tried on the website.

Channel 4 had 24/7 coverage on the website and in Jeff Ford's own words the original decision to not carry it over to channel 5 was because of the poor performance during channel 4's final series.

The Live feeds keep the show honest. And if any version of Big Brother has lost the trust of the viewers it must be this one.

I couldn't agree more. And in its heyday that is what it did.

But at the end of the day, television is a business and if it's a waste of money they're not going to continue anything unless it's providing for them in return. The live feed no longer does that.

Television is a business first and foremost and cuts will be made for things no longer working. Sad fact but true, especially on a channel like 5.