There is now talk of increasing the amount of the payments and expanding the programme's reach to cover indigenous communities in the Amazon and other remote areas.
The amount of its programmes the BBC makes in-house has fallen by around a third over the Past decade and a half, as it has opened itself up to more competition, from 77% in 2000 to around 52% last year, excluding news.
STV has upped the amount of Scottish programmes it produces in recent years.
The truth is that the amount of programmes that get pitched and the money available to make those programmes is 100 to one.
Archers Adrian Mole's grandma Edna, who used to write letters to John Tydeman to complain about the amount of sex in the programme.
She added: "There were 26 viewer complaints, which is extremely low considering the amount of people who watch the programme".
By cutting off potential investment, the amount of cash available for programmes could be hit.
The popularity of services such as Netflix and Amazon surged last year with the typical British TV fan almost doubling the amount of time spent watching programmes.
With regard to management and cost-effectiveness, it was stated that the total cost was too low for the amount of work carried out by the Programme.
It should also be noted that the amount of TSS provided is included in the programme outcome tables under each programme in Chapter 3: Summary of Programme Implementation.
