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The Beeb is forbidden by law from showing ads in the UK.
by taejo 10y ago
The Beeb is forbidden by law from showing ads in the UK.
- phaemon 10y agoMaybe they could check if you have an ad blocker and only show the site if you do :)
- binarymax 10y agoSure, so hide the ads instead?!
- gambiting 10y agoThen you are showing content to people who are not paying for it any any way(neither TV Licence nor ads). I mean, I think it wouldn't make any difference whatsoever, but I can see the logic why it's done that way.
- ldjb 10y agoAs I alluded to in another comment, I distinctly remember seeing a web page on the BBC website explaining that this is a cost/resources issue. Apparently the capability to display an advert-free version used to be there, but it proved too costly to maintain. I've been trying to find that page, but unfortunately with no success.
- binarymax 10y agoI meant hide the ads for the UK, show them elsewhere.
- gambiting 10y agoSure, but then you have content funded by ads, and then you hide the ads for the whole country - that's gotta cost something.
- TallGuyShort 10y agoI'm surprised the economics are so vastly different from hiding the content and displaying this message instead.
- TallGuyShort 10y agoReading the other comments, it feels like the right thing to do is amend the law and permit the BBC to show ads in connection with content that is not funded by the license fee. Seems to me the hardest part of that is the accounting required to ensure all funding is kept separate for international and domestic projects, and that must have already been done.