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Originally posted by DeltAlum
It's been a long time since I studied international broadcasting, but in its original charter, the BBC reported to the Postal Service (yep, the mail folks) and supported totally by a per head postal tax, so they really weren't that concerned about Parliament whims, etc.
As we've already mentioned above, though, that funding has changed somewhat over the years.
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Yep the BBC was offically part of the old British Empire structure that dealt with communications - so they were "administered" by the same group that handle the telegraph, postal, Parliamentary messengers, and radio - anything doing with communication under the purvue of the government...
Now even under the old system of the head tax they were still subject to oversite by governmental folks... the same way as someone in the government keeps tabs on the Postal Service. Now the budget wrangling came in when the whole "communications" group of governmental supported folks would plead their case for a share of the budget.. or sought to increase the tax as a whole.
Day to day governmental functions really where of little concern simply because the BBC functioned in the beuracracy of the system... yes they were funded but no one really paid them that much attention (well until a scandal involving them or their party broke)...