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Government has frozen TV licence fee. The BBC have to find some very big budget cuts.
Is is looking increasingly likely that BBC will save £60M per year by not renewing the contract to broadcast GP racing when it expires in 3 years time.
Wimbledon is a very costly event for BBC is also under the spotlight for cuts.
When the Sky premier football deal was done for the next period it was a substantially lower sum than previously due to much reduced competition .
Several decades ago the BBC would do live outside broadcasts of national level race meetings and there was a great deal more variety in what was shown.
Saturday afternoon Grandstand made perhaps 6 visits to Lydden Hill for 4 lap rallycross races in mid winter in a sea of mud which was brief but highly entertaining.
Vastly improved technology requiring fewer people ought to make it less expensive for some simple outside broadcasts, remains to be seen how sport on TV goes from here.
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