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Originally Posted by Neil
That is the point I was trying to make. The BBC have no need to compete. They don't need a big audience to charge advertising space on. They should be showing programs that will appeal to a different audience than what ITV is showing at the same time.
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But The Royal Charter which governs the BBC requires them to provide programming with universal appeal, so they have to produce 'mainstream' programmes in the same way that ITV do.
They also have to produce programmes that generate decent audiences, as they have to prove that they are providing value for money. The remit requires the BBC to educate, inform and entertain, so the production of popular genres e.g. soaps, talent contests, or whatever is popular at the time, is inevitable.