[Gllug] BBC Open Source

Rev Simon Rumble simon at rumble.net
Fri Jul 15 12:31:02 UTC 2005


On 15/7/2005, "Rev Simon Rumble" <simon at rumble.net> wrote:

>>http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/licencefee/
>
>So how much of that £1 million/month is associated with collecting the
>license fee?

Whoops, that's £1/month per household.  Joining up other information[1],
it would appear that of that £1, 0.43 is spent on transmission and a
whopping .057 is spent on collection.  Very sneaky tricks with numbers.

[1] "Cost of collection currently = 5.7% of licence fee income" from
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2004-03-08.1230.3&u=2
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