On 6/15/07, Kirk Northrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dave Crossland wrote:
> The BBC's sack of money contains 3 billion pounds, which is a of sum
> of money which can make a lot of things happen.
It does make lots of things happen. TV, Radio, internet, innforming,
educating and entertaining the nation.
> What percentage of the production costs, including the profit margin
> of the production company (is it produced by an outside production
> company?) of e.g. Holby City, which is on tonight, was payed for by
> the license fee? I would guess, not being a tv person, that it would
> be all of it. Am I way off?
Yes. BBC Worldwide money will also help pay for it - some productions
get extra money from BBC Worldwide too as a sort of advance to make a
good show they can flog on DVD.
But I don't think it does. The BBC Archive was paid 10 million in
2004/2005 by BBC Worldwide, and contributed 80 million in other
revenue. Compared to the 3 billion license fee it's insignificant.
There are two types of programmes: those the BBC owns rights to, and
those it doesn't. One argument against releasing BBC owned programmes
without DRM on the Internet is that it would make it difficult to then
also sell it to Fox, for example.
But there is no significant revenue from this sort of activity. It
would be advantageous to the license fee payer, and no loss, for this
type of programming to be released without restrictions.
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