[qwerty123]

That's a narrow minded view to take.  Basically "I don't care about Wimbledon so axe that instead".   Even on an average day Wimbledon is watched by 25 times the audience of the news channel and the final by 100 times the audience.   I suspect the Wimbledon coverage reaches more BBC licence fee payers over two weeks than the news channel does over a year.   It's PSB value is just as important too.

I think claiming public service value in the BBC sending a private members club tens of millions to broadcast an event that makes tens of millions in profit is highly dubious. Either the rights to the tournament or actually worth such a sum and another broadcaster would pick up the rights at a similar cost meaning viewers would still be able to watch the tournament (including the most important games free to air given they are included on the list of events that must be made available free to air) or the rights are not worth such a sum and the BBC are needlessly subsidising middle class Londoners.