{"id":154,"date":"2006-12-22T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2006-12-22T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T16:58:00","slug":"off-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/12\/off-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"Off licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"pullquote\"  style=\"font-size:130%;\">&#8230;if they go mad and hire fifteen more <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jonathan Rosses<\/span> they&#8217;ll blow the whole wad!<\/span><span class=\"dropcaps\">E<\/span>xactly who believes that the leaked licence fee settlement is bad news for the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">BBC<\/span>? Why <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/broadcast\/story\/0,,1977747,00.html?gusrc=rss&#038;feed=4\">BBC insiders<\/a>, of course. Oh, and the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">NUJ<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">BECTU<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>In the real world, a 3% revenue rise for the next couple of years is jam today. The government&#8217;s main measure of inflation, the Consumer Price Index, was running at 2.7% in November. The Bank of England&#8217;s target is still 2%. Still if they go mad and hire fifteen more <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jonathan Rosses<\/span> they&#8217;ll blow the whole wad!<\/p>\n<p>Over at <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ITV<\/span> they&#8217;re facing a revenue drop of 12.5% this year&#8230;Merry Xmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;if they go mad and hire fifteen more Jonathan Rosses they&#8217;ll blow the whole wad!Exactly who believes that the leaked licence fee settlement is bad news for the BBC? Why BBC insiders, of course. Oh, and the NUJ and BECTU. In the real world, a 3% revenue rise for the next couple of years is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81,5],"tags":[15,25],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-news","tag-bbc","tag-itv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}