MediaGuardian: BBC Worldwide may be part-privatised, says Thompson
September 14th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Broadcasting, Editors' pick
In an interview with the Guardian, BBC director-general, Mark Thompson, said that executives are considering the part- privatisation of the corporation’s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide.
Thompson also said that the provision of free BBC online news was ‘utterly non-negotiable’. “I would rather the BBC was abolished than we started encrypting news to stop people seeing it,” he told the Guardian.
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