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4. The BBC doesn't have advertisers
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 03:17 PM
Sep 2020

The BBC is state owned and it's funded by the TV Licence. As state owned "neutral" media the BBC is loathed by Conservatives. It often produces programmes of significantly higher quality than it's commercial rivals. And this in turn makes people like Rupert Murdoch very unhappy.

If they purge all the comedy talent in favour of unfunny hacks like Lee Hurst then the BBC's commercial rivals will no doubt sign up the funny comics and take those comic's audience with them. Idiotic strategy like this will run the BBC into the ground.

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