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The BBC is an enormous and success means for the UK to exert soft power globally via their native language affiliates around the world. edit: It seems gaius is
by 3am 15y ago
The BBC is an enormous and success means for the UK to exert soft power globally via their native language affiliates around the world.
edit: It seems gaius is correct below - the World Service funding doesn't come from the BBC TV surcharge.
- gaius 15y agoThat's the World Service, which is funded by the Foreign Office from general taxation.
- jbooth 15y agoYou can't have both?
- dotBen 15y agoactually....... that just changed very recently. The World Service is now funded from the license fee combined with commercial revenues (eg selling World Service news to NPR). In some ways it is a good thing that the government is not funding BBC World Service as that removes an argument for bias (not that I ever saw any when I was seconded to work on World Service Russian and Spanish language sites).