Broadcasting: What BBC will our children inherit?

This article discusses what the UK broadcast landscape would look like if the BBC ended its television output due to funding cuts.

Broadcasting: What BBC will our children inherit?

Patrick Barwise and Robert G Picard London Business School and Oxford University

The BBC is a proud but controversial national institution. As it implements deep cuts and debate rages about its future funding, Patrick Barwise and Robert G Picard summarise the results of a ground-breaking study of what the world would be like for UK viewers if the cuts continued until there was no more BBC Television.

We Brits have a strange relationship with the BBC. It is widely admired and enjoyed internationally, setting the global standard in public service broadcasting. It...

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