Scrap the license fee?
Isn't it about time the government stopped aiding and abetting the BBC's demanding money with menaces?
BBC.com begins commercial push
The BBC has already begun serving advertising to overseas visitors to its website, after its governing body agreed to the move last month. The rollout is being run by the Beeb's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide. It's starting with a gradual launch of European and North American campaigns ahead of a "full deployment" in January, a …
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Tuesday 6th November 2007 17:40 GMT Anonymous Coward
Reminder to edit hosts.conf
I noticed these coming in over the past few days, and thankfully it reminded me to restore a hosts.conf file that points certain servers to 127.0.0.1.
The BBC News web site layout doesn't really lend it's self to ad's, it wasn't designed that way. At the time of their layout design it wasn't an issue. So currently, they look cludged in and mess up the whole BBC layout. I am a UK Ex-Pat so used the BBC News site a fair bit, but to be honest it now looks such a mess and leaps about during rendering, I don't think I'll bother. I'll hit another news site.
Don't get me wrong, I don't begrudge the advertising, but the way these are tacked in is tacky. The Reg for example, at least seems designed more around it's ads.
The BBC can't avoid that this is a messy afterthought, and it knocks their credibility.
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Tuesday 6th November 2007 19:06 GMT Anonymous Coward
Its bloody annoying
Hi lads,
I've been a fan of the Beeb for many years now, but only the news service -- I never bother with the rest.
This morning I woke to flashy crappy images on the lovely Beeb screen, its enough to make me use another news site.
I subscribe to Sky and get the beeb as standard -- do they not get a cut of this?
if yes, then why should I see all this flashy crap?
Cheers
Con.
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Tuesday 6th November 2007 20:29 GMT David Evans
About time
Its only taken them 10 years. They were supposed to do this originally (with poor old ICL's cash). If they'd have done it then they'd have earned a shedload of cash and people wouldn't be so taken aback by it now. In fact loads of the commercial stuff they're now finally accepting as necessary for survival were suggested (and developed) by the beeb.com crew back in the day but were killed by the John Birt regime.
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Wednesday 7th November 2007 10:32 GMT Paul M
The usual all over again
I can only assume that the people who complain about the TV licence fee have never had to subject themselves to "free" TV in other countries. I have found myself shouting, swearing and throwing things at the television when, after being convinced that there surely cannot be enough time left to slip in yet another ad before the end of the programme -they still manage it!!!!!
Anyway, about the topic in hand, the beeb have been reasonably subtle I think. Having said that, if you don't pay the licence, I can't see you've got much cause for complaint. Except me - although based in London my company's external IP address is based in Germany so I get the ads too......
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Wednesday 7th November 2007 10:32 GMT randomtask
I was wondering!
I was wondering why my BBC new was rendering with a big gap below the main bar at the top and then everything moving up. Its really been doing my head in this last few days. Why not have it so that it has no ads by default and then checks your IP to see if it can populate your page with ads, so that us licence payers dont get fecked off with moving pages that are going nowhere!!!!
On a side note, good luck to whoever gets the "Congratulations you're the 999,999th Visitor" prize. I guess this wont be open to UK and NI residents :( :( ;)
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