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How would you cut £613m from the BBC budget?

UK Free TV is making it possible for you to decide what to cut and what to keep. Use the tick boxes to select what you would cut from the BBC budget, and see your progress in the bar below. Please share!!!

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Name	Cost	Reach*
Broadband rollout "topsliced" to BT	£150.0m	-
BBC One	£1,433.6m	45.3m
BBC Two	£533.4m	32.0m
BBC Three (online only)	£20.0m	-
BBC Four	£63.1m	10.6m

BBC Four	£63.1m	10.6m
CBBC	£100.3m	3.6m
CBeebies	£41.1m	5.8m
BBC ALBA	£9.0m	-
BBC News channel	£63.0m	8.8m

BBC Parliament	£10.1m	0.7m
BBC Radio 1	£54.3m	-
BBC Radio 2	£60.4m	-
BBC Radio 3	£55.1m	-
BBC Radio 4	£115.7m	-

BBC Radio 5 Live	£66.1m	-
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra	£5.7m	-
BBC 1Xtra	£11.1m	-
BBC 6Music	£12.5m	-
BBC 4 Extra	£7.5m	-

BBC Asian Network	£10.7m	-
BBC Local Radio (England)	£153.8m	-
BBC Radio Scotland	£31.4m	-
BBC Radio nan Gaidheal	£6.0m	-
BBC Radio Wales	£19.9m	-

BBC Radio Cymru	£18.3m	-
BBC Radio Ulster/BBC Radio Foyle	£24.0m	-
BBC Online, iPlayer (and Red Button)	£201.0m	-
Orchestras and performing groups	£32.5m	-
S4C (inc direct funding)	£107.0m	0.6m

Development spend	£82.8m	-
BBC World Service operating licence	£253.6m	-
Licence fee collection costs	£110.3m	-
PSB Group pension deficit reduction payment	£376.8m	-
Costs incurred to generate intra-group income	£170.2m	-

Costs incurred to generate third-party income	£133.4m	-
Restructuring costs	£8.4m	-
Digital switchover (DSHS Limited)	£0.4m	-
Local TV	£2.9m	-

Notes: this page is based on the figures in the BBC Full Financial Statements 2014/15, less the change of BBC Three from £114.2m TV to £20m online service. Full Financial Statements also shows the current number of governement-funded 'Over 75s' licences - 4,215,808 - giving the eventual shortfall of £613.4m. BBC Worldwide/BBC America profit of £109m to BBC 'PSB Group' and one-off £78.6m for 'lease reclassification' also not shown. The 'Reach' is the number of people tuning into the service each week, from BARB Viewing Summary and RAJAR Quarterly Listening.

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Sunday, 8 May 2016

MikeB

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6:35 PM

Thanks for your 'thoughts'...

You are John Whittingdale and I claim my five pounds!

Brianist: On a serious not, any coverage of whats going to be in the White paper and the possible reaction to it? I though Ian Jack's Guardian piece was pretty good, and more to Gary Lineker!

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Sunday, 5 June 2016

fynes
8:12 PM

stop wasting money sending badly spoken youths on vastly expensive holidays-see the useless holiday show

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Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Brenda hamilton
1:38 AM

Please invest in sport and drama on the bbc

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Sunday, 3 July 2016

Neville
12:54 PM

Most of the TV on is OK. Need more programmes on Bebop Jazz. And Art History. And how to watch BCC1 News South .

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Malcolm McPartlan
7:36 PM

Said it before get rid of this two pressenter nonsense where each say a line then look down the ear of the one sitting next to them till its their turn again ! immediate saving on wages, plus will be much better way of doing it.

Lets also remember there are some excellent programmes on BBC tv

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Neville
8:46 PM

Are there any BBC documentaries on prices of Care Homes for elderly people?

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MikeB

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9:48 PM

Do you mean Care Homes Under the Hammer?

Seeriously, no. Why did you think they might?

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Monday, 12 September 2016

John Baxter
10:51 PM

Why is so much money spent on bbc radio 3, who listens to this insecent drivel. If you want to listen to much better classical music there is classic fm. The bbc knows if it relied on advertising, no one would pay to put adverts on there because hardly anyone watches it.

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Tuesday, 13 September 2016

Richard Cooper

_{sentiment_satisfied}Gold

11:29 AM

Hi, John. Did you mean to give your opinion of BBC Radio 3 as 'incessant drivel', rather than 'insecent drivel'? I agree that Classic FM broadcasts 'easier listening': I didn't realise that BBC R3 has 'talking pieces' in-between the music pieces until I just switched one of my radios on to the ! Incidentally, we 'listen to' radio stations rather than 'watch them' unless you enjoy watching the display screen on your radio, that is! Richard, Norwich.

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MikeB

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4:30 PM

Classic FM's playlist tends towards the 'Worlds Greatest Classical CD', which is fine for a while, but challenging its not, and its film music tends to be a bit from John (I'm a huge Barry fan, but there are only so many times you can hear 'Out of Africa'), the really boring Howard Shore music from one of the Rings films (they tend to blend into one), and Ladies in Lavender.

R3 isn't easy listening, but there is a lot of good stuff you just wont hear on Classic FM, even though its (small) audience complains of 'dumbing down'. And there is no way that Classic FM would cover the Proms - far too obscure.

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