Sentence examples for programming budget from inspiring English sources
Yet last year, when C4 cut its programming budget by 8.5% two things happened.
The worsening economic climate has already led Channel 4 to trim its programming budget.
ITV1's annual programming budget will fall from £867m last year to £805m this year.
The programming budget would fall from £83m to £62m in 2014.
That could force Michael Grade to cut his treasured programming budget, or slash ITV's dividend payout.
ITV has been particularly hard hit by the advertising downturn, although it has pledged to maintain its programming budget.
That fell flat when the economy tanked, and his £1bn annual programming budget was cut by £135m over three years.
Gale will also have to make do with the lowest programming budget of any of the five terrestrial channels.
S4C has no in-house production operation and spends its entire £83.5m programming budget on shows from independent producers.
Channel 4 expects that its programming budget this year will be about £575m, with a further drop expected for 2009.
Five, which was bought by Express Newspapers owner Richard Desmond last week, has an annual programming budget of around £165m.
