Want to know how much the BBC spend in England, Scotland, Wales and NI per home?
Lovely Scotland. Photograph: pixabay.com
Just in case you missed it today, BBC Scotland would like to have their own Six O'Clock news on BBC One at an extra cost of £65m a year - BBC Scotland bosses lobby for 'Scottish Six' news programme | Media | The Guardian.- at a time when the budget is being cut by £50m this year and £650m by 2020.
Perhaps if they cut BBC ALBA (£9m/year) BBC Radio Scotland ( £31.4m a year), BBC Radio nan Gaidheal (£6.0m) that might get half way toward paying for it? Not sure how a 30 minute news remix show would cost almost the same as a 24-hour news channel either.
But here are the figures from Broadcast...
There are 2.4 people per TV Licence (from BBC Full Financial Statements 2014/15).
England £126.70, Scotland £175.72, Northern Ireland £202.98 and Wales £203.47 - from A new deal for the nations.
Workings out...
| Per Capita | millions of poeple | |
| England | £ 52.10 | 53.01 |
| Scotland | £ 72.20 | 5.295 |
| Northern Ireland | £ 83.40 | 1.811 |
| Wales | £ 83.60 | 3.064 |
Monday, 16 November 2015
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trevorjharris12:12 AM
@Mikeb
You raise the question of climate change. Firstly to show I am not a crank I have a Physics Degree and an MSc in Solid Sate Physics. I also have passed the CAA Meteorological exam for private pilots.
I certainly do not believe there is sufficient evidence to prove that human activity has a significent effect on global weather. The weather systems are extremely compicated and cannot be predicted even by using the most powerfull super computers.
In the 60's "scientists" were predicting another ice age.
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MikeB11:43 AM
trevorjharris: I'm not going to try to debate the in's ans out of climate change here, because:
a) This website has an entirely different topic
b) My physics is barely above O level, for the most part.
However, with your background in physics, I'm sure you would be interested sites like the ones from Tamino Open Mind | Science, Politics, Life, the Universe, and Everything (who has an excellent set of links to data sets if you want to crunch the numbers yourself - Open Mind | Science, Politics, Life, the Universe, and Everything climate-data-links/ ), and Eli Rabett's Rabett Rabett Run
Both are working scientists, and have lots of links to others working in the field. And RealClimate is a must - the permanent and guest contributors are working (and publishing) climate scientists, and there is a huge amount of commentary on journal articles, data and other links as well. They have just put up a review of the situation in the Antarctic which is very interesting. RealClimate: So what is really happening in Antarctica? .These, and many other sites, will give you an insight into climate science at a level your academic background warrents.
Unfortunately, the 'ice age' meme is false. The 'possible ice age' stories started being reported in the 1970's, but were based on basically one outlier paper What were climate scientists predicting in the 1970s? . The science was pretty clear by that time anyway - Lyndon Johnson was briefed in a report in 1965 about it, and mentioned it in a speech to Congress in Feb 1965 http://www.washingtonpost…tml.
As we know, science is reflected in the journals, not the popular press. The number of journal articles attempting to argue against AGM is tiny. And thats why I find the evidence for AGM overwhelming. However, the links above should allow you to look at the data with your own eyes and evaluate it.
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Tuesday, 17 November 2015
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Simon Parsons12:45 PM
Brian Butterworth raises some valid and long overdue questions about the cost of the BBC Scotland newsroom but the figures in broadcast are spurious and disingenuous. They include the cost of distribution around the terrestrial transmitter network which is proportionately more expensive in areas of low population. When it comes to spend on production and administration the BBC trust instructed the BBC top dogs nearly eight years to bring that spend in proportion to the number of licence fees raised in each country. Needless to say it hasn't happened and with shows commissioned years ahead they won't achieve it in the foreseeable future. On the other side of the coin, the geography of Scotland means an independent BBC Scotland would have trouble making ends meet.
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Simon Parsons: Thanks for your kind comments. The only way to look the cost of distribution in Scotland is to look at BBC Alba. It costs 6m a year for "content", 1.4m for "distribution", 900k for "content and support costs" and 700k for "general overheads". So, 15.5% ... For BBC One it's 3.2% (46.2/1,433.6) for distribution. It's a great shame the BBC Annual Report doesn't break these down.
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Thursday, 19 November 2015
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Andrew3:34 PM
You keep saying spending 'in' scotland, but the BBC claim spending 'on' Scotland. Not the same thing at all..Match if the Day is spending 'in' E&W, but it is considered spending 'on' all UK citizens, as it is a nationally broadcast programme. This goes to show how fake these figures are. Of course, the BBC is under political pressure in Scotland, so it's a narrative they want to push. I'm surprised there's anyone out there who would actually believe the BBC spends more per head in Scotland than in England.
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Andrew: just for the purpose of clarity. The figures are for spending IN Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland.
This means that the money is paying for people, buildings, equipment and services there. This isn't about making local programming for these areas.
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For additional charity, the BBC doesn't spend more in cash terms in Scotland than England because TEN TIMES as many people live in England than Scotland. The graphs reflect this.
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Andrew4:18 PM
You're completely wrong, I'm afraid. The figures are based on national spending per capita, on things like the BBCNews 24, Radio 1 etc divided by UK population. This produces a figure probably north of 45 quid per person UK wide. Then you add regional spending. This is much higher in NI, Wales and Scotland than in England.The regional part is spent in those regions as you describe. The national bit is spent mainly in London and Manchester, but also overseas on news coverage. Per head, more money is spent *in* England than in NI or Scotland. Not sure about Wales.
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Monday, 23 November 2015
Andrew: Just for the record.... what I wrote is correct and I have provided links to the primary source. You assertion isn't evidence, sorry. You are just making it up, as they say.
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