From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 10 21:08:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA09876 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 10 May 1997 21:08:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA09871 for ; Sat, 10 May 1997 21:08:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970116) with ESMTP id AAA25058; Sun, 11 May 1997 00:07:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPN/970116) with ESMTP id AAA08418; Sun, 11 May 1997 00:07:14 -0400 (EDT) To: Paul Richards cc: Iain Templeton , Sean Eric Fagan , chat@FreeBSD.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: And now for something completely different In-reply-to: Your message of "06 May 1997 17:38:00 BST." <57rafkr1xz.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 00:07:14 -0400 Message-ID: <8415.863323634@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Paul Richards wrote in message ID <57rafkr1xz.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk>: > The amount of money being granted to the BBC has I think been in > steady decline. A fairly obvious indication is the number of major > sporting events that it has lost the contracts for, either to the > commercial stations or the satellite stations. Possibly, but it's probably more likely that the commercial stations will have more clout when it comes to raising revenue (i.e. they go to Nike and say `you want an ad during Wimbledon? The rate is double the normal for that time of day'), where the BBC doesn't have that option. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info