{"id":4037,"date":"2011-07-14T13:55:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T12:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2011-07-14T13:56:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T12:56:31","slug":"step-1-tweak-bbc-charter-step-3-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/step-1-tweak-bbc-charter-step-3-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Step 1, tweak BBC Charter&#8230; step 3, profit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Brother Corporation (that joke tm Spike Milligan) reports that the international version of the site, BBC.com, is <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/uk\/2011\/07\/14\/bbc-com-is-now-profitable-two-years-ahead-of-schedule\/\">reporting a profit<\/a> two years ahead of schedule . Which is nice, but I&#8217;d like to see how much expenditure they have going out for the content and other areas beyond <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bbcworldwide.com\/2011\/07\/14\/bbc-com-reaches-new-heights\/\">the quoted<\/a> &quot;&#8230;multimillion pound rights payment for us to run the BBC.com business&quot;. It&#8217;s a good news story, but can we dig a bit deeper?<\/p>\n<p>No matter what, I am looking forward to something out of this story, and that&#8217;s the arrival of some faux licence fee outrage from the Daily Mail in 5&#8230; 4&#8230; 3&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Brother Corporation (that joke tm Spike Milligan) reports that the international version of the site, BBC.com, is reporting a profit two years ahead of schedule . Which is nice, but I&#8217;d like to see how much expenditure they have going out for the content and other areas beyond the quoted &quot;&#8230;multimillion pound rights payment for us to run the BBC.com business&quot;. It&#8217;s a good news story, but can we dig a bit deeper? No matter what, I am looking forward to something out of this story, and that&#8217;s the arrival of some faux licence fee outrage from the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,576],"tags":[230,1625,2644,2643],"class_list":["post-4037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-mainstream-media","tag-bbc","tag-licence-fee","tag-profit","tag-worldwide"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-137","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}