It is amazing to watch this story get rewritten in the media by the BBC lobbyists. Kangaroo was never a standalone streaming service. All the parties had strea

It is amazing to watch this story get rewritten in the media by the BBC lobbyists. Kangaroo was never a standalone streaming service. All the parties had streaming services already. BBC were the only ones who planned to offer current content on the platform, and even then it was a link to their own streaming service. The main purpose of this was to sell the back catalogue. So, no wonder this didn't occur. This project was talked about for years, it never really got started. And the BBC then realised that they could just sell you the programs you paid to develop through Netflix. Revenue in content sales is going through the roof, all that is going into the pockets of staff...why bother creating something new? It is a total scam. The stuff about the Competition Commission is quite correct though. They made a series of bogus decisions around this time (Pure Gym/Gym Group being another one) where they chose some odd definition of market size. As with most other British institutions, including the BBC, it is run by the academic/lobbyist/civil servant...lots of board seats, no experience of business beyond lobbying for subsidies, quite remarkable.