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
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.