The former head of the world service of the BBC (World Service) Peter Horrocks tried to convince to increase its funding, because it, in his vision, far behind the state of the channels in China and Russia.
Horrocks believes that the Ministers ought to reconsider spending abroad, and to discuss the increase in the payment World Service, in order to cope with the increasing influence of channel RT.
According to Horrocks, the Corporation has submitted a request to the Ministry of foreign Affairs of great Britain, " whether they want to do something with funding for the development of additional transmission about Ukraine, but they answer until not received.
" Us financial surpasses the Russian Federation and the Chinese, but they certainly We will not pass on the results (in the audience). We need to play the role of an impartial party. We cannot be for one side or the other, We need to provide people with what they are able to trust, " said Horrocks.
" We are greatly superior to the Russians and the Chinese, such information I already raised with the BBC. The scale of how We are losing the information war is terrifying, " BelTA quoted the printed edition of the head of the British Community of lords for culture, media and sport John Whittingdale.
The foreign Ministry has funded World Service until April 2014. Now the annual budget for services in the amount of 245 million pounds consists of mandatory contributions for television households.
according to the newspaper, the target audience of the service channel has grown a lot in connection with the conflict in Ukraine. Thus, the number of students of Russian version of the BBC increased at least 2-fold to 6, 9 million people, and the Ukraine tripled to not less than 600 thousand people. Audience all broadcasting Corporation BBC is 265 million people per week, 191, 4 million of them users of global services (World Service).
The RT audience of More than 700 million people.
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