Since when the BBC running ads?

Andrew_S · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jan 09, 2005 Posts: 683

The BBC has a British Airways advertising banner at the top of its news site:

BBC News

Anybody know about this? (I thought the BBC was non-commercial and paid for by extortion from the serfs.)

IslandCrow

They have been doing it for a couple of weeks now....but only for those of us outside the UK. The trigger was the last review of funding for the Beeb, where the government did not allow the license fee to go up as much as was needed to provide the same standard of services. One result is those of us who are not in a position to pay the license fee will have to see selected adverts.

Click here for what the Beeb has to say about the changes: BBC - What's Changing
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Andrew_S · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jan 09, 2005 Posts: 683

Thanks, I hadn't heard about that. No banner now, so it isn't 24 hours a day.