Re:BBC blocking articles from UK residents
by sambeau on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @10:51AM
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BBC Worldwide is a separate commercial organisation. It does not get to spend any of your license-fee.
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Re:BBC blocking articles from UK residents
by gadders on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @11:22AM
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I will re-state then.
If BBC Worldwide had not lost that £80m, how much in additional funds could have been offset against the license fee that UK people pay?
Re:BBC blocking articles from UK residents
by whiskers on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @12:51PM
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None. BBC Worldwide is a separate entity that neither takes money from license fees nor produces anything specifically for license fee payers.
Re:BBC blocking articles from UK residents
by gadders on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @12:58PM
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Whiskers - it seems I can't reply to you, but according to the top-rated comment on this page:
The majority of the operation is a taxpayer-funded public broadcaster with a remit to produce high quality programming for free; but there's a unit called BBC Worldwide whose job it is to battle it out in the red-in-tooth-and-claw world of commercial TV programming, selling BBC programmes overseas and minting money that can then be used to subsidize the public broadcasting component.
That would imply that BBC Worldwide profits do impact the license fee (assuming the BBC don't just spend the profits, but use it to drive down license fee costs).