Benga & Skream, Tonight on BBC Radio 1 @ 9pm

[firky]

But then again it's great bring British and being able to watch HDTV online for free (kind of)

[ashley]

I don't know why the BBC don't charge a subscription for people outside of the UK, it would generate more money to keep it quality and cover their bandwidth costs*. I'd pay a tenner a month for it.... if it had more content and didn't expire so quickly.

(*which must run to the millions of GB a day)

BBC is paid for by the tax payer - there is not a single piece of commercial advertising or revenue stream, and it somehow still makes a profit.

They don't even have their own data centers lol.

Guy I work with was lead developer on the iPlayer.

[firky]

They make vast sums of money selling DVDs and merchandise, books, magazines, they also sell their programmes, films and rights for remakes to other broadcasters in other countries. They also get about a third of a billion £ off the state (but that's getting cut, tory stnuc)

Have to say, man, I don't mind paying my TV licence (even if I couldn't afford to once!). I pay Sky £35pcm for a hundred channels of shit that have adverts :\

[borrowed]

Im outside the uk and this works for me
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b0 ... _and_Benga

[borrowed]

Im outside the uk and this works for me
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b0 ... _and_Benga