mike_field
Vital Football Legend
You don't know what wages the other broadcasters pay because only BBC is legally obliged to do so.
The BBC "hounds" people for non-payment of the licence fee because that's the legal framework for their funding and if that's how the Govt has it set up what are they supposed to do? Say "it's alright lads we won't do anything if you don't pay your licence"? The private broadcasters and the Govt would absolutely LOVE for them to do that because it would end the BBC.
Well, by the BBC's own comment in keeping talent and competing with the commercial operators - the fees will be similar as will the bonuses. It's not their job to keep pace with wage inflation, it's about value, not one upmanship.
It's not about developing 3d TV software which is niche at best and pointless otherwise and all the little other ventures they get involved in for absolutely no public benefit.
Why do they physically and deliberately chase single mums, OAP's, the disabled - it's a well known tactic because they get the conviction rubber stamped with costs profit as the Court's don't do their job in absence of the easy targets NOT turning up to defend themselves.
Their own figures prove that tactic to be true.
Changing their model of business wouldn't end them and the Gov could end them overnight if they wanted to and they haven't, so short of the occasional MP who wants 5 mins of fame and talks about ending the licence fee, that isn't any more of a plan or risk today than it was 20 years ago.