At 14:26 +0100 11/4/06, Chris Jenkinson wrote:
Neil Harris wrote:
#20 bbc.co.uk
Each of these WP "competitors" is run by an organization with a multi-billion-dollar annual turnover.
Just for informational purposes, 3% of the BBC's income due to the licence fee goes towards bbc.co.uk[1]. In 2005, the BBC took in £2940 million from the licence fee[2]. That gives just less than £90 million annually.
Chris
-- Chris Jenkinson chris@starglade.org
"Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
In the future, non UK users of BBC websites will be charged.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/bbc/story/0,,1745320,00.html
"The BBC is to charge overseas users of its websites and will borrow £350m for global expansion. Evidence, argues Emily Bell, that it is preparing to be self-sufficient ..."
BTW, there are stacks of BBC News Online servers in Telehouse New York. Who pays for those?
Gordo