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Originally Posted by twobits
If this is true (and I am not saying it is not) then why would people not be willing to fund it as a private membership organization? Do they have advertising also?
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The BBC has an annual budget of about £4.6bn (about US$7.4bn) - that would be one heck of a private membership organisation! About £3.4bn of that comes from the tax payer; the other £1.2bn from the BBC's commercial businesses (eg selling programmes to overseas broadcasters).