‘The BBC Charter and Agreement expressly allows the acceptance of funding from the profits of BBC Worldwide and other BBC commercial services, funding from the Open University for appropriate programming and online services, and co-productions. ‘
The BBC’s main defence of its raison d’être is that it is a resource for all the creative industries of the UK without which that industry would wither and die…or at least wilt considerably.
However BBC Worldwide is fully commercial and provides the BBC with a good chunk of its funding, and then there’s the BBC studios and post production facilities, also a fully commercialised subsidiary of the BBC, which works hand in hand with those creative production companies to produce their ‘award winning’ content…
Creating and preserving award-winning content
We work with media companies to create and manage award-winning content across all genres for a wide range of platforms and broadcasters, including ITV, Channel 4 and Sky, as well as the BBC.
From providing best in class HD TV studios and innovative post production workflows to industry leading digital media services, distributing, managing and adding value to content.
We are flexible in our approach and work with projects of all shapes and sizes.
As a fully owned commercial subsidiary of the BBC, our teams have a deep understanding of programme making and media handling.
Talented experts are at the heart of our operation and can guide and advise you through the whole process.
Much BBC content is actually produced in partnership with other commercial broadcasters, the film about the Mississippi posted earlier was made in partnership with Discovery Channel which really invalidates the claim that no other broadcaster would produce the range and quality of programmes that the BBC does….other broadcasters are just as interested in, and capable of producing, unique, interesting, high quality programmes.
When it is a ‘fully owned commercial subsidary of the BBC’ that is generating work for the creative industries that pretty much negates the claim that the licence funded BBC is the sole institution that is capable of being the main generator of that creativity….especially when the commercial BBC Worldwide actually provides so much of the BBC’s funding and the Open University also pays into the BBC for its educational services….so again not from the licence fee.
Every national publicly owned company has gone through the privatisation process so as to improve them, make them more competitive and provide more of a chance to give others a slice of the action, and, of course, to stop them from becoming to dependent on the taxpayer funded easy life.
Water, gas, electric, railways, telecomms…all split up and made to compete on a fairer playing field. As we know, the competitions and markets authority doesn’t like one player becoming too dominant in the market so why are the bbc allowed to carry on as normal?
The bbc dominate every medium going..radio, TV, news, online content, all thanks to the taxpayer, and they still do whatever they like. There is huge money in the media industry, many companies survive and produce better stuff than the bbc so what are the bbc scared of?
It’s time the taxpayer’s teat was removed from them, let them join the real world of competition and streamlining, of getting rid of dead wood and layers of useless bureaucracy, of standing up to real scrutiny and improving instead of crying and bleating over the first major criticism of the organisation they have suffered.
Only then will they give a toss as to what the British public really think, because, as we see on a daily basis with all public services, they mostly don’t give a four X what we taxpayers think.
‘The BBC Charter and Agreement expressly allows the acceptance of funding from the profits of BBC Worldwide and other BBC commercial services, funding from the Open University for appropriate programming and online services, and co-productions. ‘
I wonder which heading they use for the money they get from the EU? Or is there a separate section for bribery and corruption?