A colour license for a year is £116 whilst a B&W license is roughly £40

Which all adds up to £2.8bn a year (it gets another £1.1bn from commercial operations), I guess TV is an expensive business...

...in fact output on BBC1 costs £160,000 an hour to produce, on average...

...also discovered while googling that the BBC website serves 1.2 billion page impressions a month !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/report2003/pdf/facts.pdf
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