04-11-2023, 09:30 PM
(04-11-2023, 09:06 PM)DTV Wrote: I believe that £13m figure was the budget before a prior round of cuts. £8m is the current budget.
I would be very surprised if the figure for the STV News operation was substantially lower. The average BBC English region's TV operation costs around £5-8m and STV News' reported budget c2008 (when they were seeking licence subsidy) was around £7m with inflation of 40% since (with TV news costs having inflated above average). And, again, them having a similar budget wouldn't really surprise me given investigative and foreign reporting, a declining though still present part of Newsnight's remit, are more expensive than standard news reporting.
STV News is around £4.7 million in total in told (q3/21) I'm told by a fairly reliable analyst. They have had big cuts, lost a full edition and changed production staffing/automation since 08.
I'm genuinely interested to hear why you think news cost inflation is higher than average?
Everything ive seen suggests the opposite: studio production tech is cheaper, lower head counts, lower staff wages (as old school high earners retire) and things like contribution links are far lower - a liveU and a zoom is orders of magnitude cheaper than a sat truck