Okay, if the absolute worst happened and the BBC was suddenly no more (though I seriously doubt it’ll come to that) the big hitters like Doctor Who and Sherlock would be fine. They make tons of money, someone else would snap them up. It’s the smaller things – the children’s programming, the blogs covering important issues, the non-English-language radio stations – that would be the first to go.
backthebbc
But why should other people pay for your fandoms? Gurl.
lol, so, a) I pay my licence fee (you did not do your homework sir I am Scottish to my core) and b) they’re not “my” fandoms. The BBC does a lot of things relevant to fandom, and the post is geared towards fandom and how fandom interacts with the BBC, but the BBC is also a public service. It provides important and needed services for the marginalised, who don’t receive broadcasting in the private sector. For instance, the BBC does large amounts of programming in Welsh and Gaelic, both minority language communities that would never receive broadcasting from other channels that need to make profit. The BBC also does broadcasting about issues facing minority communities, and sitcoms about their lives that appeal to much smaller audiences than Channel 4 and itv can afford. (For instance, it’s British Asian broadcasting, including such gems like Citizen Khan, a sitcom about a British muslim family, and My Jihad, a love story about a muslim single mother and the young man who falls in love with her.) They also make shows that are expensive but serve the national interest, such as the news (including local news that isn’t profitable, like Reporting Scotland), nature programs (if anyone comes at me about sir attenborough i will fight you he is a national treasure) and much more.
The post I made (here if you haven’t seen it! http://girlmarauders.tumblr.com/post/124576108637/how-to-backthebbc) was intended to serve two purposes. 1. to inform non-British people what was happening to the BBC and to encourage them to remind British people why so many people love the BBC so much and 2. to give other British people who love their BBC things to do in order to help defend it.
Gurl.
In the backthebbc tag for Reasons. I’m reblogging this one, if that’s okay, because so many people don’t realise that the issue goes far, far beyond ‘fandoms’.