On Sunday, 23 August 2015 13:43:04 UTC+1, Alan Gardiner wrote:
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Will be interesting to see how this unfolds - and who gets the job.
Surprising.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/met-office...recasting-cont
ract-213359729.html#kxWhf4P

Richard

Reading between the lines it seems to me that the BBC want a less expensive
service; not surprising given the additional costs foisted on them by the
current government (paying the licence fee for over 75s).

The Met Office have probably declined to tender as they consider such a
service would not meet their minimum quality criteria.

It will be interesting to see who gets the job, if it is a New Zealand
company then we might see Dan Corbett back on our screens.

I could be completely wrong of course about the reasons.

Alan

I have always seen the BBC as the meat and veg in the national diet whereas the license free channels just serve up stuff that doesn't really nourish, akin to candyfloss. Saying that however, the BBC has over the decades become a propaganda machine for the left funded by, in reality, a tax. So its unfair to criticise a government for cutting the payment that allow free TV licenses over the age band.

To be honest I haven't a clues as to the dichotomy of the BBC it is without a doubt to best media outlet of them all them and I always find myself listening to Radio 4 when in the car and would not want to listen to anything else, but the Beeb for me is still a very liberal lefty biased organistion that tend to see its own country as always the bad guy in almost every news story.

Back to UKMO: I would still prefer the BBC stayed with them.