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Originally Posted by Sirius
The BBC sells it's content abroad therefore its commercial
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Plenty of our public services make money from their products and facilities when they are supplied in a way other than for their public service obligation. Hiring of school premises on evenings and weekends immediately springs to mind. Yet that doesn't make our schools or councils "commercial".
It is perfectly reasonable for a public service provider, having fulfilled its obligations to the taxpayer, to find other ways of supplementing its income in order to further enhance its public services.
If BBC Worldwide did not sell products overseas the BBC would have less money and would be able to do less in the UK.