Why would the BBC help out rival broadcasters?
Ofcom is in the final stages of a review into how best to plug the potential £235m PSB funding gap. Ideas under consideration include potentially sharing some of the licence fee with Channel 4, which is publicly owned but makes money from taking advertising, or giving it a stake in BBC Worldwide to boost its revenues. The BBC does not agree that either of these options should be considered, instead putting forward its partnership proposals. “BBC Worldwide is not a portable cash machine,” Mark Thompson, the BBC’s director general, recently said of the proposal.
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