2010 BBC World PBS KCET Countdown

2010 BBC World PBS KCET Countdown

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• KCET
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[callwithcurrentconti]

@WorldNews92 Not any more, actually - it'll be funded by the BBC direct next year. Strangely enough, the US has it better in this case: at least NPR and PBS can lash themselves free of public funds if worst comes to worst. The BBC - with its inept management, pity the poor people who do create things of worth there - seems to be running head-on into a nightmare.

[WorldNews92]

@TeamBlackDragons01 Also, BBC World News is funded by commercials, but because of this is not allowed to be viewed in the UK. BBC World Service (on radio) does not have commercials - unlike the rest of the BBC being funded by the licence fee, the World Service is funded by a grant directly from the Foreign Office.

[WorldNews92]

Viewers in the UK pay for the BBC with the licence fee, hence no commercials. However, BBC Worldwide (distribution of BBC programming abroad) is funded by the licence fee but operates with commercial distributors in other countries, and it is up to the individual network how they fund viewing that programme (either by commercials or public contributions, like PBS). This includes BBC World News.

[SWalkerTTU]

@TeamBlackDragons01 No, it's not a spoof. PBS does not get a license fee, but instead has to depend on donations from corporations, non-profit foundations and viewers. Corporations often provide "enhanced underwriting" (i. e., restricted ads) for these purposes. Local stations sometimes accept non-commercial advertising as well.

[recto89]

@LeichteSuppe1 Which PBS station is sponsoring BBC World News since KCET is now independent. Now Tavis Smiley's Show is now sponsored by WNET in NYC.

[TeamBlackDragons01]

I thought it was an advertising spoof because I know we pay for our TV licenses in the UK and it goes to the BBC, but do people in America have to do the same and if not that would explain why BBC World Service had advertisers.

[LeichteSuppe1]

KCET used to include the countdown but not anymore. The countdown began after the TOTH so I didn't see the point. All it did was increase the live-to-air delay by 30 seconds.