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Originally Posted by DonovanDuVal
Only since the birth of Sky TV have I come to respect and admire the quality of the programing that the BBC deliver. They clearly have far tighter budgets, but somehow manage a to produce a quality that exceeds their means. Not everything that they do floats my boat as it were, but at least it's of high quality, and varied enough to reach most people in society some of the time.
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It isn't so much that the Beeb budgets are tighter rather it is that they don't acquire as much as Sky One, Living or Five (all comparble to BBC one or two). The Beeb, while they do acquire also produces a large percentage of their own programming. Producing is way more expense than acquiring.