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pseudonyms for fun and safety's avatar

Not just TV - it also pays for national and local radio, educational programmes for schools and revision materials (when the schools were closed for Covid they put together a whole TV channel of curriculum-based programming within about 2 weeks, to help with home schooling), a couple of orchestras and choirs, The Proms, and a whole bunch of talent-development programmes and technology innovation projects. That innovation arm has done incredible stuff - they invented streaming television with the Iplayer.

It’s easily the best-value cultural investment anyone makes, anywhere.

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Petula's avatar

I might have missed it, but I don't think the hosts mentioned the fact that the BBC is a governmental institution (unlike PBS). Big difference.

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