Abolish The TV Licence Fee

http://www.bbcmagazinesadvertising.com/index.html

BBC magazine reaches 88 million people per year, Here on this BBc owned site you can buy advertising space in the BBC magazine (funded by our BBC tax contribution)

This is the statement from the footer -

©BBC Worldwide Ltd

BBC magazines is owned by the BBC and our profits are returned to the BBC for benefit of the license payer

Go onto Google and put this in the search box

“is owned by the BBC” – include the quotes

if you look you can see that google has found 15,600 webpages that have this piece of text at the bottom of the page.

Almost every page i visited had adverts showing on it.

oh and lets not forget the BBC shop – http://www.bbcshop.com

Where we get the fantastic chance to pay for something we already paid for all over again

how much more am i going to dig up? im not even in BBC Troll mode yet haha

Taken from – http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/editorialguidelines/edguide/editorial/advertisingtheb.shtml

Advertising & the BBC brand

We should ensure that the BBC brand is not used to endorse outside companies or organisations. We can achieve this by ensuring that:

* commercial advertising or promotion by an outside company does not give the impression of BBC endorsement
* advertising does not “pass off” BBC programmes.

We will not normally allow the BBC name, logos, titles, channel names, programme titles, formats or characters to be used by commercial advertisers.

Any exception, for example, for a joint promotion of a BBC commercial product, must be formally agreed in accordance with the BBC Advertising and Joint Promotions Guidelines and the BBC Fair Trading Guidelines.

Taken from – http://www.bbcmagazinesadvertising.com/research.html

Research

BBC Worldwide has a dedicated research team to support the ad sales department across our magazine and online portfolio. Committed to delivering information and insight on an ad hoc and regular reporting basis, the research division analyses key markets and trends enabling BBC Worldwide’s media offering to evolve and grow.

By helping advertisers understand the relationship between print and digital they can tap into new and exciting audiences. This helps our clients grow their brands, build cohesive campaigns and utilise our various publications and websites effectively.

Dont they seem to ba a bit contradicting of each other? Has anyone been on any of these flagship BBC sites – All of them have adverts on the pages.

* bbcgoodfood.com
* bbcgreen.com
* gardenersworld.com
* radiotimes.com
* topgear.com

How much do you think the kids franchise is worth? All those toys on the shelves and tweenies dolls, teletubby costumes and stuff. Where does the money go? Oh yes it goes in the pot with the 2.4 BILLION each year from the TV TAX

* Balamory
* Bob the Builder
* CBeebies
* Cbeebies Animals
* CBeebies Art
* Charlie and Lola
* In the Night Garden
* Teletubbies
* Toybox
* Tweenies

WE ARE GETTING SHAFTED – GOOD AND PROPPER

Right last one then im going for dinner

Visit – http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7664963.stm

Go to the bottom of the page – Everything seems normal. But… Look at this screen shot

At the bottom of the image you will see no mention of advertising with the BBC

Now lets play them at their own game, the BBC website uses a process called cloaking, this process takes information from the users web browser to determine the content that is displayed. In the case of the latter the system seen that i was a UK visitor and did not show me a link to the BBC advertising scheme.

So we are going to trick their system now, visit http://www.freeproxyserver.net/ (this website allows you to use a server in another country to surf the web)

Using this proxy site copy the same url (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7664963.stm) into the box and hit go. When the page loads up, go to the bottom. Whats there? Only a link “Advertise with us” – For a screenshot look here -

So the question i have to ask is -
Why would the BBC want to employ a system that does not show the fact that it advertises to the UK population?

What has it got to hide – Maybe it wants to hide the fact that they are taking us for a ride.

Tags: BBC smoke and mirrors

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