[Vision2020] BBC World Service Short Wave Broadcast: Oxford University Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship

[Ted Moffett]

A thought provoking and inspiring presentation 4-9-2011, I heard the
past day on short wave radio from BBC, that I think can be listened to
off the BBC website below:

The Forum: 09/04/2011: BBC World Service

http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/?q=The%20Forum
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Info on this BBC World Service event from Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/BBCForum
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Below is a interesting article from commondreams.org, comparing the
BBC to PBS, noting that the BBC is supported by the UK public in a
manner that ensures its economic viability, as described below.  Can
you imagine such a tax for PBS paid by owners of televisions in the
US?  Socialism!  The horror!

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1023-02.htm

"Here in Britain, of course, the BBC has one great advantage over PBS
in America -- the freedom from such political pressure that is
afforded by the annual license fee that TV owners pay to fund BBC
programming. This ensures that the Beeb is far less vulnerable to
political pressures than PBS, which must get its appropriations
approved every year from Congress.

The BBC is supported instead by an annual tax of ?116 (US$195) paid by
every British household that owns one or more televisions. The tax
raises as much as $4.2 billion for the BBC every year and nobody in
government can reapportion it or redistribute it. Thus the BBC, unlike
every other public-broadcasting system in the world, is not only well
funded but also well protected from politicians."
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