It isn't, really.It has an international commercial wing which gives money to the non-commercial wing, while still using the name BBC, which makes the non-commercial part a kind of huge* publicity stunt to improve the image of the commercial part.
Also it accepted millions of - some currency or other - from the EU recently.
*And compulsory
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Fri 6 Apr 2007, 13:52,
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Also it accepted millions of - some currency or other - from the EU recently.
*And compulsory
It is true that World has finaly started making a profitbut it receives nothing from the license fee & the editorial control of the news operation is effectively under the same management as the rest of BBC news
/can only speak from a news point of view blog
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chunderbunny lacking humus since,
Fri 6 Apr 2007, 14:10,
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Hmm.I think the BBC is a business, which ought to dare to make the license fee optional and spread its puny little commercial wings. There's no reason to suppose it would turn into another Sky as a result; there's no room in the market for a second Sky, and the BBC has already cornered the market for middle-class niceness and alleged integrity, so presumably it would stay there.
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