[t c]

Originally Posted by t c

Oh and by the way RTE does require commercial funding as the TV licence monies are not enough to provide the public service that it does. You see its a population thing we have less than less than 2 million paying the tv licence as distinct from the masses of cash the BBC collects from TV licence income from its huge UK population of 66m. Hence they can operate without commercial monies.

Rubbish.

TV3????????????????

TC

[Mike 1972]

Originally Posted by STB

You see its a population thing we have less than less than 2 million paying the tv licence as distinct from the masses of cash the BBC collects from TV licence income from its huge UK population of 66m. Hence they can operate without commercial monies.

This is rubbish on so many levels

First off youve exaggurated the demographics by comparing the number of households in Ireland with the number of people in the UK.

Secondly youve ignored the fact that the Beebs operating costs are far higher than RTE's (overpaid presenters notwithstanding) Aside for the extra paid for rights to show sports/films/imported programming they have the extra costs from operating in a larger and more diverse country such as transmission, extra services, regional output (22 regions on BBC1 Four on BBC2 and over sixty local radio services plus a world service and a host of specialist/minority interest services).