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Originally Posted by Jameseh
The BBC wouldn't work as a Pay-TV company despite the fact its great reputation for quality programming. Adverts may be a solution but personally I'd rather pay my license fee than have Go Compare every 15 minutes into the F1 or Doctor Who. Plus they offer much more than Eastenders seeing as they operate at least 7 channels and countless radio stations all with a large viewing/listening percentage.
Plus without innovations like iPlayer, all the channels would be lagging behind and I doubt you'd have catchup for anything.
Also, BBC and BBC Worldwide are two separate companies so the reason there are adverts on UKTV channels is the same reason they don't hand out DVDs of the shows, and probably why shows like Doctor Who and Top Gear can even afford to be made.
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Not to mention that if the BBC carried adverts it would destroy the advertising market in the UK.
The BBC channels are the most watched, as such they'd have the highest advertising fees, and people would rush to advertise on them. The advertising market isn't infinite, there's only so much advertising spend to go round. That means that the other channels would get less income, budgets would have to be cut, and we'd have an inferior service overall.
Channels are feeling the squeeze from advertising at the moment, can you imagine how much worse it would be if they were competing with the BBC for advertising draw?