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That's not to say that the UK has no such pull (though that is largely limited to royalty and certain cultural exports), but the US is on a whole other plane on these matters that is frankly incomparable.

Could not disagree more I'm sorry. Sick of the Britain-bashing on here. The BBC is the finest cultural institution in the World and it's got there by being British. Lose that and it'll end up being a carbon copy of all the other broadcasters.

What? How is it Britain-bashing to say that the US has far greater cultural dominance internationally. That's not a value judgement on my part, it's just objectively true. Far, far more people globally could name key US political figures than British ones and the US is incredibly unique in that normal people outside the country maintain at least some interest in its day-to-day politics/issues. This ultimately allows US-based international broadcasters to talk about the their country in a way not afforded to other international broadcasters who can't benefit from the same familiarity.

I'm not saying that the BBC should lose it's British-style, but on an international news channel you can't assume that viewers will be familiar with unusual domestic terminology. Pushing stories of limited relevance onto them is one thing, but pushing stories that they don't care about and which you are telling in a deliberately opaque way is how you lose viewers - which is a terrible idea for a channel whose budget is about three-quarters dependent on advertising revenue.