Niko that link no longer works as it says session expired.
Stuart
Bummer. So go to https://bbc.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml click View Tender Opps, then Past Opps, then on my screen it’s on page 6, #51 with a deadline of 30/06/2014.
Somehow I dont they will apply the ‘cheapest’ rule to the presenters and ‘entertainers’ whom they employ. They would argue you have to pay large amounts of money to attract the right talent. Everything from Director General downward. Methinks that this was a foregone conclusion and that something else will appear in the system when the new company takes over that will raise money for the Beeb.
Mike
Commentary on the situation today from the U.K. Telegraph “The bulk of the data used by the winning bidder will still have to be supplied by the UK Met Office anyway”.
Well we all knew that anyway 
Stuart
Well of course…the organisation that wins the contract, will of course be using publically available data but will no doubt be paying for Raw Model Data commercially available from UK Met Office, as well as that from other Met organisations, but not ALL of the Met Office data is going to be available. They obviously will have fully qualified Meteorologists, some no doubt ex Met Office. But I maintain it’s a diabolical decision to end the direct association with the Met Office.
TrevP
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The graphics were, and quite rightly slated when they were introduced, and yes still not liked widely by weather geeks and non weather savvy folk
TrevP
I did see a BBC forecast the other day where they used the http://earth.nullschool.net/ graphics for once of the wind visualisations, haven’t seen it used again though. I think the ‘standard’ wind animations they use are pretty crude in comparison.
I seem to recall that it was the Metra division of the NZ Met Service that has been supplying the flybuy type graphics?
Right. I really didn’t care for that flyover the UK map thing that they do, almost got motion sickness :lol:
It all stems from the BBC getting less and less funding, also less and less are paying for the license too, they have been cutting
many costs just lately and obviously the Met Office was quite a big drain…
Well to be honest if they stopped the hugely inflated salaries for some of the “stars” and the huge management structure they might be able to afford other things. I have no problem with them trying to get the best possible price but NOT at the expense of the best possible weather service, and to my mind that is neither of the likely candidates.
Stuart
The Met Office contract was a relatively small amount out of the BBC coffers… I’ve seen a reported figure of
Agree 100%