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Originally Posted by Mr V
To be fair to the Beeb, when they negotiated for the contract, they didn't know that the government was going to cut back its budget by £66 million or whatever the figure is.
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was it not also negotiated before the full fail scale of the economy was occuring? perhaps they were counting on higher revenues from selling on rights and so on that simply didn't materialise.
i don't think we can blame auntie for outbidding itself. not considering what's happened to both the sport and the global economy since. such is life, there's plenty of other things to get riled up about.