Chris

But we aren’t subsidising the BBC. We are actually paying for it. The corporation’s revenue is something like £4bn a year and (from memory) only around 10% of that comes from commercial activity (though £400m revenue from mostly international activities is no small beer). Only the big US media corporations have more money to play with. The UK marketplace isn’t big enough to generate that much commercial revenue for any media business. The BBC simply isn’t going to get bigger or better operating on commercial terms because its domestic market can’t sustain it.