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Government Could Ban BBC From Showing Top Shows at Peak Times (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The BBC is on a collision course with the government over reported efforts to bar it from showing popular shows at peak viewing times. The culture secretary, John Whittingdale, is widely expected to ban the broadcaster from going head-to-head with commercial rivals as part of the BBC charter review. He is due to publish a white paper within weeks that will set out a tougher regime as part of a new royal charter to safeguard the service for another 11 years. ITV has complained about licence fee money being used to wage a ratings battle with it and other channels funded by advertising. A source at the BBC said the public would be deeply concerned if it were forced to move programmes such as Strictly Come Dancing, Doctor Who and Sherlock from prime time weekend slots.In some unrelated news, Clarkson, Hammond, and May are still figuring out the name for their new show.
This is the kind of BS you have to worry about when you have government doing things it shouldn't be doing, like running a national TV network. We have several forms of 'public' TV in the States, but none of them are run with the sort of dictatorial mandate that the BBC operates under (license fees, content regulation, you name it).
A - Pay some shills to threaten Bernie Sanders in virtualspace
B - Blame the threats on Donald Trump
C - Hope and bribe that Hillary will win because "evil Donald" has been ingrained into the public conscience
BBC, NyTimes, CNN and many others are willing executioners in this evil scheme.