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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.

But there is public service value - it's BBC output that people watch and enjoy, making them more likely to feel the BBC is a worthwhile investment, enabling the BBC to continue to receive funding for the genuine PSB stuff. As I've said before, that is the PSB bargain. I'm also not sure that turning this into some class/populist matter is that great a path to tread down considering the demographics of the News channel audience and the 'BBC should only do the worthy stuff' stance being a bit of an elitist argument.