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Regulations

• The BBC makes money as a commercial business and from thelicences. Its commercial activities havethree main objectives:

• to contribute to the United Kingdom’s broadcasting export;

• bringing a United Kingdom outlook at culture and the world market;and

• to generate sufficient income to better develop the standard of programmes

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Funding• The BBC is paid for directly through each household TV licence. This allows

it to run a wide range of popular public services for everyone, free of advertsand independent of advertisers, shareholders or political interests.

• The BBC provides 8 interactive TV channels, 10 radio networks, more than50 local TV and radio services, the BBC's website, and the on-demand TVand radio service, BBC iPlayer.

• BBC World Service is funded by government grant and not the TV licencefee. Profits from separate BBC commercial services help to keep the licencefee low.

• The BBC is a public service broadcaster funded by the licence fee.Commercial channels ITV1, Channel 4 and Five produce PSB programmesin exchange for free access to the analogue airwaves - equivalent to asubsidy of £400m a year.

• Obviously, once all of the UK is digital, there will, in effect, be no subsidyavailable to the commercial channels to encourage them to make PSBprogrammes.

• This is why Ofcom is studying the issue now.

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Asian Network

Digital CurriculumBBC7Interactive TV

BBC Learning andEducation

6 MusicBBC Parliament

BBCi WebsitesFive Live sports extraBBC News 24

BBC SingersFive LiveC Beebies

BBC OrchestrasRadio 4BBC4

Wales and CymruRadio 2BBC3

Scotland1 XtraBBC2

England Local Television

and Radio

Radio 1BBC1

Other RadioTelevision

The BBC’s main source of funding for its

television and radio services is the licence fee.

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Public Service Remit

• Proposals for the future of public service broadcasting have

been released by Ofcom. The plans, if implemented, could

radically alter the face of British broadcasting.

• The watchdog says that public service broadcasting will notsurvive in the digital age if the current range of PSB offerings

on state-backed (BBC) and commercial (ITV, Channel 4, Five)

stations is not overhauled and if the way they are paid is not

radically changed.

• The BBC must provide suitable viewing for all types of audiences because they are the people who are paying the TV

licence to watch the programmes.

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