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Adverts on BBC Websites?? Ahhhghh!!

Scottie_ukScottie_uk
edited December 2008 in Chit chat
Watching videos on the BBC news website gives me crappy adverts for Diamonds.

When the fook did the BBC start advertising.

I know this only affects over seas viewers but what about BBC's impatiality. Adverts just cheapen the BBC. I wish them to desist immediately.

I didn't pay my licence fee for this!!??:mad:
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  • DarenDaren
    edited December 2008
    Scottie_uk wrote:
    When the fook did the BBC start advertising.

    BBC Worldwide, the Commercial arm of the BBC, has been around for years.
    Scottie_uk wrote:
    I didn't pay my licence fee for this!!??

    Your licence fee would actually be more if it wasn't for BBC Worldwide. I heard on the Today program on Radio 4 (I think it was), that if it wasn't for the money ploughed in by BBC worldwide profits, the licence fee would be about £10 higher.
  • NickHNickH
    edited December 2008
    Heh, surprised me too when I was in Spain recently. But fair do's to them - it means that non-licence fee payers are effectively being subsidised by adverts rather than people that actually pay the licence.

    I'd need to see a few examples of the BBC's impartiality being affected.
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited December 2008
    Maybe your right, but I really wasn't expecting a advert trailer before the news article. Not on the BBC no matter where I am in the world.
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited December 2008
    Did my earlier rant get removed?
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  • DarenDaren
    edited December 2008
    I would guess there was a DB crash or similar when the site went down last night. And the database that was restored was backed up before you made your comment.
  • WinstonWinston
    edited December 2008
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    I didn't pay my licence fee for this!!??:mad:

    Overseas viewers don't pay a license fee at all, so it's only fair they get to see ads. (The BBC worldwide channel on satellite in the USA has ads, just like CNN).

    There's also always radio, which doesn't have them.

    Personally, I keep a handy UK based proxy server for when I'm travelling, that way I still get to use the iPlayer :-)
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited December 2008
    Daren wrote: »
    I would guess there was a DB crash or similar when the site went down last night. And the database that was restored was backed up before you made your comment.

    Probably just as well as it was quite vitriolic, but probably not that important as I can't remember what I originally said. 11 bottles of Miller will do that to you though.....

    ......'tis the season and all that :D
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