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[RebelSouls]

Have you been away, yes we had a mini break in Manchester

http://www.dailymail....re-workers-north.html

[jake-the-peg]

NJ the BBC decision is also done on commercial grounds - relocating large amounts of their functions to Manchester is a cost saving measure and represents a saving for the license payer.

If you are an employer with a large number of very technical high value staff you want to take as many of them as possible with you. It costs a lot of money to re-recruit, retrain and integrate new staff into your organisation.

Anything you can do to increase the numbers of those taking up the relocation is money well spent.

It's a good investment in making a relocation a sucess - I know RS, the Mail and I suspect you wouldn't want anything the BBC does to be a sucess but there you go

Of course if your staff is largely semi-skilled it's a different story

[New Judge]

You could be right, jake, but the BBC itself does not do a very good job of promoting the commercial advantages of the move. True, they do waffle on about nebulous advantages such as “centres of excellence”, “production clusters”, “...base for attracting talent” and other BirtSpeak. They also suggest that because some independent production companies have their headquarters there, then they too must follow.

I certainly do want the BBC to be successful. They still lead the world in many fields but have lost their way somewhat when it comes to general entertainment. I just think that sometimes their ideology gets the better of the.

[Bobbisox]

I suppose it's better than Mumbai

[Coobeastie]

People... the people who write into magazines the people who write newspaper articles the ones who moan that the beeb has a love affair with the south and if the do venture north produce rose tinted romantised views of life up north. Personally I couldn't give a thrupenny bit where they are based.

[Coobeastie]

An old article but the accusation still gets thrown about...most recently I think complaints were being made that the Beeb ignores Northern Ireland.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7073702.stm