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The BBC is forbidden from undertaking any commercial activity within the UK in their charter. While obviously quite integral to the way the BBC works and is abl
by fredley 10y ago
The BBC is forbidden from undertaking any commercial activity within the UK in their charter. While obviously quite integral to the way the BBC works and is able to work, this is a weird side-effect of that restriction.
- xg15 10y agoReminds me of the situation in Germany, where private publishers and TV networks managed to successfully shoot down some of the better ideas of how to use public television. Result is that public television networks are forbidden to produce in-depth articles accompanying their reports and may only expose free internet access to their shows within tight limits. The compromises reached seem more and more like "you may produce content using public money as long as you make sure the content stays sufficiently sucky".
- fredley 10y agoThe BBC charter is being renewed soon, and there is certainly a faction within Government that is trying to push the BBC in this direction.
- ldjb 10y agoExcept the BBC do undertake commercial activity within the UK through BBC Worldwide, by selling TV programmes and films through the BBC Store and on DVD/BD. Some of the BBC websites that were previously blocked in the UK (such as Future and Earth) are now available because they don't show adverts to UK visitors. Surely the same can be done for the Travel website (show adverts to everyone except UK visitors).
- hanoz 10y agoThe error page would be a hell of a lot less irritating if they just said that, instead of the nosensical Newspeak they've chosen instead.