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"Recliner" wrote in message
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tim... wrote:


"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 19:09:39 on Fri, 17 Feb
2017,
tim... remarked:

what benefit does the BBC gain from translating

Some of, I expect. Or is "Look East" really available in Swahili?

their news into 30 different languages?

Because they have something called a "World Service"?

so who's paying for that then?

Is this a cost the viewers are funding or are the foreign office funding
it?

This has been covered extensively in the news. Did you miss all the
coverage?

No I was aware that the FO had lumbered the Beeb with this costs

but I also seem to recall that at the most recent agreement the FO took it
back

tim

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tim... wrote:


"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 14:29:48 on Fri, 17 Feb 2017,
tim... remarked:

BBC URL http://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/ now says "The BBC Travel website
is no longer available".

If they really were spending £15m on that, they were getting very poor
value for money.

you seem to have missed

"as part of a plan to help save £15m"

Sorry, spin is it? 100k will be saved by ditching this site and the
remaining 14.9m by banning vintage wine from the subsidised executive
canteen.

presumably the rest come from closing other web services

like the proposal to close BBC Food - oh dear!

More realistically

what benefit does the BBC gain from translating their news into 30 different
languages?

Two of those other languages are British ones.

Robin

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On 2017\02\17 19:09, tim... wrote:

what benefit does the BBC gain from translating their news into 30
different languages?

Marxism is for everyone!

It also creates lots of jobs that the British are disqualified from
applying for.

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On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 14:23:04 -0000 (UTC)
bob wrote:
tim... wrote:
Sorry, spin is it? 100k will be saved by ditching this site and the
remaining 14.9m by banning vintage wine from the subsidised executive
canteen.

presumably the rest come from closing other web services

like the proposal to close BBC Food - oh dear!

More realistically

what benefit does the BBC gain from translating their news into 30 different
languages?

Two of those other languages are British ones.

Welsh I can understand spending money on, but spending money on a radio & TV
station for scots gaelic which is spoken by barely a few thousand people in
the western isles is an extravagance too far IMO. They'd be far better off
putting more money into scottish regional programming.

--
Spud

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On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 16:55:42 +0000, Basil Jet
wrote:

On 2017\02\17 19:09, tim... wrote:

what benefit does the BBC gain from translating their news into 30
different languages?

Marxism is for everyone!

It also creates lots of jobs that the British are disqualified from
applying for.

Can I nominate this for the idiotic posting of the week prize?

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On 2017\02\20 16:17, BirchangerKen wrote:
On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 16:55:42 +0000, Basil Jet
wrote:

On 2017\02\17 19:09, tim... wrote:

what benefit does the BBC gain from translating their news into 30
different languages?

Marxism is for everyone!

It also creates lots of jobs that the British are disqualified from
applying for.

Can I nominate this for the idiotic posting of the week prize?

You can, but it won't make me wrong.

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"Basil Jet" wrote in message
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On 2017\02\20 16:17, BirchangerKen wrote:
On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 16:55:42 +0000, Basil Jet
wrote:

On 2017\02\17 19:09, tim... wrote:

what benefit does the BBC gain from translating their news into 30
different languages?

Marxism is for everyone!

It also creates lots of jobs that the British are disqualified from
applying for.

Can I nominate this for the idiotic posting of the week prize?

You can, but it won't make me wrong.

I think you were

they might be unqualified, but they aren't disqualified (AFAIA)

tim