I honestly believe it will go to Sky. They have money, in fact they have a higher turnover than the BBC now. Their MO is to buy existing and successful formats - whether they be shows like Glee or Mad Men, or sports like cricket or football - and use them to lure viewers away from other broadcasters.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Black Knight
The BBC are being used as a political football, and won't want to be seen funding what's generally perceived as a rich sport in a time of cutbacks. It's sickening: the new BBC Trust chairman is an ex Conservative Party chairman (who has already made clear that he wants to see channels and services cut); meanwhile the PM has only this week had yet more cosy meetings with Rupert Murdochas the takeover of BSkyB edges towards being rubber-stamped by a Culture Secretaty who despite having to be impartial is on record praising the tycoon. This is all happening while one of his newspapers stands accused of phone hacking on an industrial scale, allegedly partly overseen by the man who until recently was Cameron's media spokesman; and the Met Police stand accused of bowing to political pressure not to act. Honestly, if you wrote that as a crime novel people would dismiss it as being too far-fetched.