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...