Alternate Reality BBCs

"This is the PBC ,the Peoples Broadcasting Service bringing you a special announcement.Today at 4:15 local time and final German and Fascist troops in Ulster surrendered to the heroic Red Army.People fill the ruins of Trafalgar square as today,on the 1st of March 1951 we finally witness the end of the Second World War!"
 
BBC remains a private company as it intially started out, being a private monopoly on the media. Despite outcries for greater choice, it retains its legally valid monopoly until the 1990s when pressure from NGOs, the popularity of pirate radio and the growth of 'pirate' Internet media sees the 1997 New Labour government push for the break up of the BBC into regional broadcasters and the selling off of several channels and stations to new independents. However this leads to News International and Virgin effectively dominating British media, while the crippled BBC is viewed somewhat nostalgically and is reliant on DVD sales of classic comedy and drama before finally shutting down as a terrestrial broadcaster completely in 2006
 
BBC remains a private company as it intially started out, being a private monopoly on the media. Despite outcries for greater choice, it retains its legally valid monopoly until the 1990s when pressure from NGOs, the popularity of pirate radio and the growth of 'pirate' Internet media sees the 1997 New Labour government push for the break up of the BBC into regional broadcasters and the selling off of several channels and stations to new independents. However this leads to News International and Virgin effectively dominating British media, while the crippled BBC is viewed somewhat nostalgically and is reliant on DVD sales of classic comedy and drama before finally shutting down as a terrestrial broadcaster completely in 2006

The Horror! :eek:
 
BBC remains a private company as it intially started out, being a private monopoly on the media. Despite outcries for greater choice, it retains its legally valid monopoly until the 1990s when pressure from NGOs, the popularity of pirate radio and the growth of 'pirate' Internet media sees the 1997 New Labour government push for the break up of the BBC into regional broadcasters and the selling off of several channels and stations to new independents. However this leads to News International and Virgin effectively dominating British media, while the crippled BBC is viewed somewhat nostalgically and is reliant on DVD sales of classic comedy and drama before finally shutting down as a terrestrial broadcaster completely in 2006

What happens to our beloved shows?!
 
I would have liked a Sky-Channel like "BBC Europe" Superstation, FTA on Astra. Many classic BBC shows, plus BBC news, this would make an awesome TV-Station. Maybe this could have become reality with a more "British" orientated Europe than a "American".
 

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In a Chamberlain-wank world it could perhaps have become the Imperial Broadcasting Corporation, with regional offices in the UK, Canada, Australia etc in the same way that the OTL version has regional offices in different parts of the UK, and people from all over the Empire/Commonwealth would pay the licence fee.
 
In a Chamberlain-wank world it could perhaps have become the Imperial Broadcasting Corporation, with regional offices in the UK, Canada, Australia etc in the same way that the OTL version has regional offices in different parts of the UK, and people from all over the Empire/Commonwealth would pay the licence fee.

I think that's the case in Rule Brittania!
 
Or it could end up like the NZBC (New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation) - corporatised, then broken into TV/Radio. With the former becoming commercial (despite government subsidy/other funding) and indistinguishable from non state broadcasting. The latter staying commercial free (3 stations) for some reasons.

I can't see the point of having a state TV network that acts entirely like a commercial station in every sense. It crowds out the private sector while not offering any of the benefits a public broadcaster should
 
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