Latest comment on BBC Sport's World Athletics 2013 coverage today - Mixed fortunes for GB relay teams

' 203. Farmer Joe
JUST NOW
Maybe next time make the BBC team stay at home in the UK, and commentate on the television pictures viewers are watching. (Like the marathons, where commentary could have come from Salford rather than elsewhere in Moscow).
If the 'usual suspect' castlist of former competitors want to attend the championships, they can buy their own tickets, rather than leaving the licence-payers to foot the bill.'

Farmer Joe, I hear you!
More here http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/23748244

BBC wasting our money on payoffs for managers

Almost 200 senior BBC managers have received payoffs of more than £100,000 each in the past three years, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

The National Audit Office is to examine the scale of severance packages at the corporation after MPs raised concerns that leaving the BBC was like "winning the lottery".'

That's what you get when you have a publicly funded organisation that is all but unaccountable.
More here - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9761921/BBC-faces-official-investigation-after-giving-200-managers-100000-pay-offs.html

The BBC waste money - Is this really news?

'The BBC's ten-year long Digital Media Initiative has already fallen tens of million of pounds short of achieving cost saving, a study by the National Audit Office for the BBC Trust has found.
Described as a "technology transformation project" the DMI is intended to achieve efficiencies and "prepare us for an on-demand digital environment" by allowing staff "to develop, create, share and manage video and audio content and programming on their desktop". It was announced in 2007 and has a price tag of £133.6m, and Siemens was appointed contractor.

Instead of saving £17.9m, the DMI instead cost the BBC £38.2m net – an impressive overrun. The NAO found that the "early stages of the programme were not value for money", even after some £27.5m was clawed back from Siemens when the contract was terminated.'

For more details take a read of this article from The Register