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THE CHINA-MAIL, APRIL 1, 1989.

RECORD INCOME OF B.B.C. LAST YEAR

The B.B.C.'s in

* 1938

figure

reached of

crease

an

Renewal of much income in 100 kilowatts.

mobile equip-. record of the B.B.C.'s the

: $3,800,051,

in-ment for broadcasts. from outside on the previous year of the studios is also planned, besides £444,000. The bulk of this income, improvement of Regional studio £3,431,104, came from licence fees, while the net revenue from publica- tions, £365,567, showed a decline of £115,000.

These figures are disclosed in the B. B. C. annual report.

premises.

More studio accommodation is to be provided for television at Al- exandra Palace, a scheme which has been long delayed.

on two

It is revealed that £103,000 was Revenue expenditure increased by transferred from Licence révenue £329,016 to £3,534,795. During the for capital expenditure

short-wave transmitters for the year £362,846 was spent on the tele- vision service at Alexandra Palace, foreign language service. The net and £38,958 on foreign language increase in licence revenue in 1938 broadcasts.

was £556,060, including £402,325 Details of programme expend-allocated by the Government for ex- penditure on television and foreign languages.

ture are as follows:

Per- centage Amount of Total £ Income. 18.91 Artists, speakers, &c. 718.678

5.75 Permanent orchestras 218.310 Performing rights, copy-

right fees and news royalties

Simultaneous broadcast

telephone system Programme staff 84-

laries

71.108 427.023

Expenses, including tra-

velling, stationery, pos- tages & miscellaneous 67,688

J

1.78

The listener's 10s licence fee is now divided on the following basis:

B. B. C.

Post Office

Treasury

Income tax

78 9d

10%d

11d

54d

389.274 10.24

The B. B. C. Handbook for 1989, 1.87

published simultaneously with the 11.24 report, points out once again that as the B. B. C. has no share capital both capital and current expendi- ture have to be met out of revenue. 1,892,081 49.79|In 1938, £490,105 was spent on addi- Television, the foreign language tions to fixed assets. Provision for

of income tax came to £208,196. broadcasts, and an extension Sunday hours in the sound pro- grammes were chiefly responsible for an increase in programme costs of £162,466 to the total of £1,892,- 081, or approximately half the total income.

NEW TRANSMITTERS New transmitters and the ex- tension of transmitting hours ac- counted of the increase in engineer- ing expenditure of £75,063 total of £673,855,

to a

The report discloses that London and North Regional transmitters are to be replaced by transmitters of higher power, which means at least!

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