The BBC Is Already A Business

In this video, we see that the BBC's private sector enforcement arm, TVL, works as a sales operation.

This is nothing new to us.  It would be accurate to call TVL a mixture of sales, marketing and enforcement.

Sales- Persuading people (i.e. using harassment, threats, bullying and intimidation to coerce people) to buy a TV licence.

Marketing- Campaigns in the press, on TV and on public billboards (i.e. terrorism, threats and public shaming) informing people about the opportunity to buy BBC's products (i.e. passive-aggressive bullying).

Enforcement- Can't or won't pay?  The BBC takes you to court, and ultimately you may go to prison.

The state can run a business quite as well as anybody else, and just as ruthlessly as the worst of the private sector.  Those who worry about the commercial acumen of the BBC and how it would manage should it be privatised or commercialised needn't be concerned.  The BBC will thrive in the commercial world.

In fact, the BBC is strictly a business already, and has been for a very long time - except that unlike other businesses, its customers include people who do not even want its product, and they must pay up or face imprisonment.

Now that’s what we call a business model! 

If the BBC Board went on Dragon’s Den, we expect investment offers would be coming thick and fast.