The eighth floor

[Robbie Keane]

as i have said time & again i will back the bbc to the full, yet i cannot understand why R3 & R4 cost so much, they seem very poor value R1 has had to cut back, not heard about R3 or R4 i did see that a load of people who work for R3 & R4 were moaning about cuts when it was talked about last year sometime, all i'm saying is that the bbc could easily cut three million pounds from R3 & R4 & use that money saved to keep 6Music & Asian network going, at least i'm prepared to suggest cuts to the budget or stations.

maybe i shouldn't bother to post my own opinions, i should just agree with everyone else.. saves getting moaned at all the time.

Posting your opinions is fine. Posting that no amount of debate or fact will change your mind just makes your existence here completely pointless.

[E*F*4L]

oh dear

look i will stand by the fact that i think that R3 & R4 cost way to much money, 6music gets about £9mill for about 700,000 listeners R3 gets £50mill & only has 1.7mill listeners, 6music doesn't really have a commercial competition, R3 has got Classic FM as a direct competitor simple mathematics suggests that by cutting R3's budget by £10mill (same for R4) there will be money available to run 6music & Asian network.

also i fail to see why R7 has now been renamed BBC Radio 4Extra when R4 cost's £108mill to run !

*images courtesy of http://labs.timesonline.co.uk/blog/2009/09/24/how-much-do-bbc-services-really-cost/

its no good saying that all these people have been on R4 in the past or leave R3 & R4 alone, because saying this is just like saying leave 6Music alone without providing any sort of argument or debate, at the very least i am putting up some sort of solution to the cost cutting.

more info here on how much the bbc spends;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/annualreport/exec/overview/year.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/annualreport/exec/financial/highlights/notes.shtml

[Viv]

Oh shut up Viv, we're not at Butlins.

No, you appear to be permanently at the bottom of a quarry.

I'm in Butlins, and happy!! Woo!!

[Viv]

Ha ha!

On a serious note I think perhaps it may be time for us to attempt to get along a tad better, things are rapidly turning in to CM.Net on here recently.

I noticed that too. This is the second post of your's that I have agreed with in a week, which is a little scary (ha ha)

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

I noticed that too. This is the second post of your's that I have agreed with in a week, which is a little scary (ha ha)

*wonders which of you two is more scared by that whole idea *

[Viv]

It will probably be The Stig. I think The Stig hates me. So does Juggy.

it's all very sad and depressing :-(

[Jugalug]

It will probably be The Stig. I think The Stig hates me. So does Juggy.

Of course I don't hate you, why would I? I do, though, dislike many of the things you say, or the way you say them. Face-to-face, there is a decent chance I would like you.

[Viv]

Aw bless you, Juggy... I don't know what you mean though, the way you say things??

I think I would like you too, funnily enough. :-) You'd love me - I'm mental.

:hahaha:

[The Stig]

It will probably be The Stig. I think The Stig hates me. So does Juggy.

it's all very sad and depressing :-(

The Stig disagrees with a lot of your posts and states this but I've never met you so don't dislike you let alone hate you. You are however just as entitled to your opinion as anyone else. However even if I did dislike you, you shouldn't be "sad and despressed" about someone on an internet forum's opinion of you.

[Timsk]

Anyway, I think it quite likely there will be a rethink on the actual subject of this thread given how much support there has been... Personally, I'd hate to see the Asian Network closed down - there's little enough of Nihal on the radio these days as it is.