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Re: Today's ep s55e07 @ http://www.mediafire.com/just-a-minute

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j_a_m_fanSep 28, 2009
 

 

> You say basing staff in London is "by defintion... a common-sense
> error". Thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of companies are based in
> London, they can't all be lacking common sense, surely?

I actually made the point that for a BROADCASTER this is by definition a common-sense error.

> Let's imagine if
> you were starting the Beeb from scratch - would you really make the
> decision on where to base the BBC solely, or even largely, on where
> you could rent/buy the cheapest office space

OK. Lets imagine pitching to a cash-strapped public that a new broadcaster should pay a 2-400% premium on office/studio/car parking space and a 20% premium on staff because London has better people than Manchester, Bristol, Cardiff or one of the other cities that great segments of the BBC have already moved to. I think the public, especially those in Manchester, Bristol and Cardiff, would say
bollocks to my 3.5 billion pounds per year proposal and point me in
the direction of a basic Operations Management course.

Its a new age. Fleet Street doesn't have one newspaper left on it for the reasons I've mentioned. If the BBC continue to try and swim
against the tide then the world is going to lose one of its few worthwhile institutions and we'll all be sitting around listening to Fox Radio with bemused expressions on our faces..... and no foreign media giant is going to be allowed to swoop in and save the BBC like they did with those newspapers that stayed in London too long.

 
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