| How will things change for the BBC? |
| Wednesday, 18 March 2009 15:15 |
| Like many countries around the world, an independent Scotland will continue to enjoy programmes made by the BBC and other broadcasters. At the moment, however, Scottish licence payers pay an estimated £180 million inlicence fees to the BBC each year, and by no means all of that is used to makeprogrammes in Scotland. Independence negotiations will identify a Scottish share of the assets of the BBC and will use them to set up an independent Scottish equivalent. In this way, Scotland will at last have a public broadcaster able to respond to Scottish needs and play its own part in reporting world affairs. It will, of course, also be able to buy in programmes and enter into co-operation with the BBC and other broadcasters around the world, in the way that Ireland’s public broadcaster RTÉ already does. A regulatory body equivalent to the ITC will be set up to regulate independent television in Scotland. |
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