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Vital 1st Team Regular
How typical of the bloated Beeb that while the rest of the country faces austerity, the gravy train rolls on unhindered.
The wastefulness is mind-blowing. A recent Freedom of Information request revealed the Corporation spent £30,000 a week on travel costs after the relocation of Radio 5 Live, BBC Sport, Breakfast TV, plus the Children's and Learning departments, to the MediaCity complex, which is also home to other northern-based broadcasters such as Granada TV.
One unnamed BBC executive charged £785 for a single rail trip to the capital, and another made three return trips from London to the new northern HQ in a week, racking up fares of £584.
The grotesque waste of money was starkly illustrated by one London-based regular 5 Live freelance contributor who told me he used to take a short Tube ride to the station's old base in White City, West London.
Now, however, the BBC buys him a round-trip train ticket, which can cost up to £308, to Manchester's Piccadilly station. At the other end, a car takes him to Salford, ten minutes away.
Then, after his brief 45-minute stint on air, the same car — which waits outside — ferries him back to the station for the two-hour train trip home. This whole charade takes more than six hours.
'I could easily go to Broadcasting House in Central London and speak to the studio in Salford from a booth there, and the audience would be none the wiser,' he told me.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325212/BBC-black-hole-Salford-swallows-cash--15k-Gary-Linekers-taxis-talent-commuting-jet.html#ixzz2TRzzGGud
dont forget this is an organisation which is funded both by the tax payer and through the licence fee, which thinks nothing of sending people around to the peoples housing demanding they pay and access into property with out the backing of the law.
sorry time for it to go im afraid.
The wastefulness is mind-blowing. A recent Freedom of Information request revealed the Corporation spent £30,000 a week on travel costs after the relocation of Radio 5 Live, BBC Sport, Breakfast TV, plus the Children's and Learning departments, to the MediaCity complex, which is also home to other northern-based broadcasters such as Granada TV.
One unnamed BBC executive charged £785 for a single rail trip to the capital, and another made three return trips from London to the new northern HQ in a week, racking up fares of £584.
The grotesque waste of money was starkly illustrated by one London-based regular 5 Live freelance contributor who told me he used to take a short Tube ride to the station's old base in White City, West London.
Now, however, the BBC buys him a round-trip train ticket, which can cost up to £308, to Manchester's Piccadilly station. At the other end, a car takes him to Salford, ten minutes away.
Then, after his brief 45-minute stint on air, the same car — which waits outside — ferries him back to the station for the two-hour train trip home. This whole charade takes more than six hours.
'I could easily go to Broadcasting House in Central London and speak to the studio in Salford from a booth there, and the audience would be none the wiser,' he told me.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325212/BBC-black-hole-Salford-swallows-cash--15k-Gary-Linekers-taxis-talent-commuting-jet.html#ixzz2TRzzGGud
dont forget this is an organisation which is funded both by the tax payer and through the licence fee, which thinks nothing of sending people around to the peoples housing demanding they pay and access into property with out the backing of the law.
sorry time for it to go im afraid.