BBC World is the television channel. "BBC World is owned and operated by BBC World Ltd, a member of the BBC's commercial group of companies and is funded by subscription and advertising revenues."
http://www.bbcworld.com/Pages/About.aspx Except this doesn't fully fund it, it loses money and has got a long term loan from BBC Worldwide which is where the argument about subsidising it from money that could be used to reduce the domestic licence fee comes in. You are funding it but it's not got enough subscribers. You can also choose whether to subscribe to it whereas if I don't pay my licence fee I need to watch out for a knock on the door, indeed they harass people who don't have a television set on the grounds that they fail to see how you can manage without one! BBC World Service is not officially available on medium wave in the UK, though in some parts of the country you can pick it up, but it is available in the UK on digital terrestrial radio, online and via digital televion (satellite, cable and broadband). It's funded by the UK Commonwealth and Foreign Office, which is taxpayers money. Whether it's aims include the preservation of the Queen's English in its purest form is an interesting question as is which form of English that actually means :) Mike --- Joe Buch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike, > > I amy be confused, but when the article refers to > BBC World, are they > not talking about the TV channel as distinguished > from the BBC World > Service radio stream(s). > > Somewhere in the back of my head I have the idea > that BBCWS is funded > by the Foreign Office in order to project a proper > image of the UK to > the world and preserve the Queen's English in its > pure form. Am I > mistaken? I also thought BBCWS was available in the > UK via Medium Wave > transmitters. I have heard same while in France and > Italy. > > I subscribe to BBCWS as part of my satellite > direct-broadcast radio > service. I pay $13 per month for it and about 170 > other channels. I > know that BBC charges my local public radio station > about $10,000 per > year for access to BBC news programs. Some of that > is my money. > > So I am actually paying more for BBC than if I lived > in the UK and had > a colour TV set. And I only get to watch a half > hour of BBC World TV > news and old situation comedies via my public TV > station to which I > also send money. > > Joe > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Swprograms mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED], > or visit the URL shown above. > > ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or visit the URL shown above.
