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Originally Posted by Chris
The SNP favours a state-funded broadcaster modelled on BBC Scotland, so it's possible they would seek to negotiate the splitting of BBC Scotland from the rest of the corporation. Given the amount of programming already made at Pacific Quay (BBC Scotland's HQ, in Glasgow), it's possible that the BBC in London would continue to commission material to be made there. That might help square the circle a bit, given that Scotland benefits more from the licence fee than it actually contributes.
The concept of 'Britain' isn't going to go away if Scotland goes independent (and that's still a mighty big 'if', by the way). It will just take on a somewhat different meaning. There's no reason why the BBC couldn't become a federation of broadcasters serving the nations of the British Isles. In fact, England is the only place where the continuity announcers don't refer to the channel at all times as "BBC (insert nation name here)" .... In Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland the channel is always named after the nation you are viewing in.
As for the others, well STV has never been subsumed by the single ITV1 brand that now operates across England and Wales so no change required there. The ITV network is already designed to operate as a network of independent local broadcasters. Channel 4 makes no effort to regionalise its output beyond varying its advertising slots from place to place. If it ceased to broadcast on Freeview in Scotland - and I see no reason why it should - then its English operation would still be free-to-air on satellite and probably on cable too.
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So the BBC could become the holding company for EBC (English Broadcasting Corporation), WBC (Welsh Broadcasting Corporation) SBC (Scottish Broadcasting Corporation) and NIBC (Northern Irish Broadcasting Corporation)
BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four and BBC News Channel will be split under regional lines in the manner of:
EBC: EBC One, EBC Two, EBC Three, EBC Four and EBC News Channel
WBC: WBC One, WBC Two, WBC Three, WBC Four and WBC News Channel
SBC: SBC One, SBC Two, SBC Three, SBC Four and SBC News Channel
NIBC: NIBC One, NIBC Two, NIBC Three, NIBC Four and NIBC News Channel
BBC Radio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 live, 6 Music, 1Xtra, 4 Extra, 5 Live Sports Extra and Asian network will be split under regional lines in the same manner as the TV stations
BBC Local Radio will be transfed to the regional braodcasters and renamed
They will also share resources andd co-ordinate their activities
The BBC Itself will run the childrens channels, The World Serivce, the International TV channels and co-ordinate the actvites of the BBC, EBC, WBC, SBC and NIBC
BBC Worldwide will now be resposible for the commercial activities of BBC, EBC, WBC, SBC and NIBC
Maybe that could be the new "Federated" BBC model!