The BBC is funded by licence fee payers and free to air what’s wrong with the BBC maximising profit? If this improves the quality of programs and reduces the license fee what complaint can there be – Oh wait the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee says

New activities undertaken by BBC Worldwide risk jeopardising the corporation’s reputation and adversely affecting competitors. BBC.

The first point is questionable and the second is what on earth are we worried about? I’ve not travelled to many places around the world admittedly but to the places I have the BBC beats the competition hands down for quality – why would we want to jeopardise that because commercial competitors feel they’re disadvantaged: to be quite honest they’d still claim that regardless of the BBC’s commercial arm – MP’s have yet again been taken for a ride by business. Then again there’s nothing in the fact that Sky is owned by Rupert Murdoch who just happens to also own The Times and The Sun newspapers?