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Regardless of having a license fee or not (I do as while I don't watch live TV I do have a TV in the house and I like the BBC) I think license payers should be
by simonbarker87 10y ago
Regardless of having a license fee or not (I do as while I don't watch live TV I do have a TV in the house and I like the BBC) I think license payers should be able to view this kind of content. Without the fee the BBC wouldn't exist (in its current form at least) to make projects the projects that aren't funded by the fees. Anyone have a mirror, please?
- mattmanser 10y agoThe BBC are not allowed to commercially compete in the UK, BBC worldwide is the commercial arm of the BBC, so this content mustn't be shown in the UK. But by having a commercial arm, the BBC can generate income from the rest of the world and provide more value to the licence fee payers. So you want this to exist as it makes the homegrown BBC better, even if it's frustrating not to be able to read it.
- simonbarker87 10y agoSorry, I should have been clearer. I understand why I can't see the content I just think the way it is set up is wrong. I appreciate the license fee doesn't cover the full cost of the BBC and that the commercial arms brings in an awful lot of money that the wider BBC benefits from, but it should be set up in a way that means license payers can see the content produced by the commercial arm. In the same way the rest of world should (maybe can, not sure) be able to pay an annual fee to view the content that is aired on BBC in the UK.