26-03-2023, 02:10 AM
(26-03-2023, 01:37 AM)oscillon Wrote: World Service, unlike World News (and now, by extension, joint service), is not commercial and is funded by either licence fee or the Foreign Office grant (it was surely the latter back in the day, but I have a memory that it had changed), so it does not have to cater to US audience.The FCDO do still provide some funding from the Overseas Aid Budget towards the BBC World Service. I think that's an important contribution as the UK (through the BBC) is respected as an international provider of news, especially in parts of the world where impartiality is rare.