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http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl >> News and Comment >> Is the BBC the government's new cash resource? http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1287595327 Message started by Dickie Mint on Oct 20^th, 2010, 5:23pm

Title: Is the BBC the government's new cash resource?
Post by Dickie Mint on Oct 20^th, 2010, 5:23pm

On top of funding S4C (why? it's a commercial station?), World Service (It sell the UK abroad) now it seems the beeb is to provide £300M for Broadband roll out in the rural areas. Why not the big Telecomms companies that make billions of profit out of us?

"The BBC has agreed to contribute £300m towards the £530m total cost of funding rural broadband."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11583421

Richard