Was the New Dr. Who Leaked on Purpose?

Static-MT writes "The pilot episode of the BBC's highly anticipated new Doctor Who series may have been intentionally leaked onto file-sharing networks to generate buzz, a source who instructed the network on viral advertising told Wired News."

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Re:Worked for me

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In 2003/2004 the license fee was about $20 a month.

Hmm, the page I got that from had an interesting breakdown of how they spent it:

* BBC One £3.37
* BBC Two £1.45
* Digital television channels £0.98
* Transmission and collection costs £0.98
* BBC Radio 1, 2, 3, 4 and Five Live £0.99
* Digital radio stations £0.08
* Nations & English Regions television £0.90
* Local radio £0.61
* bbc.co.uk £0.31
Total £9.67

For those not familiar with their work:

BBC one is the mainstream TV channel. This is where Dr. Who would be found. One is a difficult channel for the BBC since they have to work out how much it should compete with commercial TV.

BBC two is for less popular TV stuff. Often programs start on two, gain a following, and transfer to one.

Digital TV - they repeat one and two, and add three (more entertainment), four (more factual), two kids channels, a 24 hour news channel, and a channel showing what parliament is doing. the key on is three, which basically the Govt. forces them to do in order to encourage people to go digital (e.g. they show new series here first) so that it will be easy to turn off the analogue one day.

The national radio stations: one is new popular music; two is non-new popular music, comedy, other music genres; three is classical; four is speech; five is sport and news.

Digital radio is as digital TV; they rebroadcast and add some more channels. Seven is absolutely brilliant as they play their back catalogue of incredible radio stuff.

Regional TV is mostly news, although some of the larger regions make their own stuff. Northern Ireland and Wales especially.

Local Radio is mostly awful except for London and the odd show.

All the radio can be heard on their web page, with most shows available for a week after their original transmission. This alone nearly justifies the license fee for me!