Britain is following the Australian Government model of reducing funding for the national broadcast commission. There is no mention in the article, but in Aust

Britain is following the Australian Government model of reducing funding for the national broadcast commission. There is no mention in the article, but in Australia at least the funding to the ABC and SBS networks was reduced because of heavy lobbying by the Murdoch Media in order to reduce competition to their Foxtel cable/satellite TV media. Murdoch is powerful in Britain too. I would not be at all surprised to discover that there has been 'behind the scenes' pressure on the Government from Murdoch to phase out the BBC also.