Comparisons

The Voice has been trying to find out how much the BBC spends on local radio programming specifically targeted at black African/Caribbean audiences. The BBC has refused to answer; the Voice has published the 'private' briefing note it received, with a BBC press officer saying the programme budgets are 'commercially sensitive', and the number of employees involved can't be shared for 'data protection reasons'. 

The Voice has made its own estimate, claiming that "the BBC spends up to £50,000 annually on all the presenters and part time producers across all ten [local radio weekly] programmes, serving four million black Brits. That works out at 0.001% share of the £3.8 billion licence fee income.

The Voice goes on "The Beeb’s annual report states that BBC Alba, a service for Gaelic speakers, gets £9 million per year, despite there only being 87,000 people who speak or understand Gaelic in Scotland."