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I'm also sure that many people don't know that Channel Four is publicly owned but financed through advertising, has a public service remit and is effectively an independent subsidiary of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Hands up who thought Channel Four had shareholders ...

To clarify to point (and a few others), the BBC already runs advertising and sponsorship on a number of services outside and inside the UK. BBC websites outside the UK carry advertising. It runs many channels abroad which carry advertising and sponsorship. https://www.bbcchannels.com/...

My personal opinion. There is more to be made abroad if the BBC can find a way to compete with the big boys infrastructure. They are proven great programme makers but are competing against state of the art supply chains. Look at Amazon. They have redefined what a supply chain looks like and...

They may have done so historically, but everything has changed. Traditional broadcasters are now more worried about the likes of Netflix, Disney and Amazon rather than each other. Which is why they are looking at creating alliances. The new players can create quality programmes people want to...

Problem with running ads is all the other domestic broadcasters would probably lobby the Government to stop it happening. There is only so much ad revenue to go round and it would inevitably lead to reduced revenues for ITV, Channel 4 etc... Sent from my BLA-L09 using Tapatalk